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[RocWoof <woofr0c@xxxxxxxxx>]

I switched back to CrunchBang 9.04, and the wifi is working fine again 
(as it has all along with several other notebooks I use).   I stick with 
WEP since I still use some older devices like WinCE and 16-bit wifi PC 
cards that cannot do WPA, and I  live in a very low-density area, and 
can see if any "suspicious" characters are in the neighborhood to be 
concerned about - the 4 neighbors within range don't have the tech savvy 
and/or low ethics to hack my WEP, so it keeps out the casual connections 
that depend on no encryption.  I might reconsider that policy if I do 
away with the old gear completely (or set up 1 older WEP router just for 
them leaving it off whenever I do not use them ... hmmm ... liking that 
idea).

I have tried Xubuntu 10.04 on more powerful notebooks, and performance 
and wifi are ok, but other deficiencies exist vs earlier versions - i.e. 
they do not come back from  suspend reliably, and on one of the 
notebooks I just found that the file manager and Ristretto cannot drill 
down into the DCIM directory on a 2GB SD card to find/show the jpg files 
from a digital camera, but putting the same card into a notebook I 
reverted to Xubuntu 9.10 showed the files just fine.

It is looking as though 10.04, overall, needs another month or 2 of 
real-world post-beta debugging, as usual with Ubuntu's  hurried up 
releases.   I will check back then ...

Regards,
RO