linux and freedom

For a fairly long time (3 months to be precise) i was hooked to Windows Vista not by choice , but due to lack official JavaFX support available on linux , since last week before JavaONE, that problem phased out, We have official supported SDK's available for linux, so it's time for me to get my Jaunty installation back(yes I was on Jaunty during the shift , although that was Alpha version), so I grabbed Ubuntu ISO from their site, created a bootable pen drive using unetbootin(I have a previous post on how to do this) , and after my several failed attempts to get my net working on live CD(I still can't figure why this happen , perhaps my ISP have a problem with this mode , or my modem which is a 2 years old defunct model, had lost it's glory), I figured, what the hell , lets have a fresh install, I did it , next came the herculean task getting my net working , pppoeconfig did not worked, my ISP is BSNL , a public- sector ISP which entails them to defy us of any help in terms of support , documentation or anything to be found at hte right place, that sat aside little bit of search helped, few site offered nothing but suddently I got my LAN connection working , that said , I cannot sa how it worked , the auto cannection did not worked for me so I created a new connection abruptly named 'Wired Connection 1' by Ubuntu with all the following settings,


and I suddenly it flashed with a notification , saying I am connected, good , now I have net connected to figure out wireless woes, but for my luck I had configured my modem for wireless when using windows and it worked nice enough there, I had WAP encrypted connection(I am a bit skeptic to share my limited bandwidth since it is very limited(30 kBps as of now)) , I roamed a little on WWW, no luck still , then I configured my auto Wireless connection as per connection settings as of lan and setting Wireless security to WPA and WPA2 personal (that is what I used in Wireless) , entering my keyphrase , and plugging out my ethernet cable , and voila! I got wireless access, now I can lay anywhere in my house and work silently on my jaunty box, I downloaded and.or installed few softwares , Netbeans JavaFX bundle, Java SUN Development kit , a few of firefox addons (addblock plus etc., ) installed and thought now I am good to settle, suddenly update-manager popped-up suggesting a 56 Mb update , this was low as compared to fact that 2 months have passed since the release of jaunty , I only do important updates,(the default one now) and closed my laptop lid and go to sleep, in morning I woke-up good to see my laptop shut down due to expiration of battery, opened my laptop and got no wireless , but a message -- device is unmanaged , connected my ethernet cable and stumpled upon this post from the source which rescue me more than I can count -- the ubuntu forums , This is the link , the experience was good, this might be a surprise but I had more trouble working my wireless for Vista then here, but that was because I had to also configured my modem for wireless access, but screw all of this I have a working net an fully configured and working ubuntu.