Re: Missing Ethernet Port
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:42 PM, Tom Sparks wrote: > tell us a little the make and model of your friends computer > > What dose lspci and lsusb report on his computer? > > send us the dmesg file from his coomputer? All of this will help to determine whether the hardware has been recognised and setup correctly. I know my netbook needed a proprietary driver which I was able to enable from the 'Hardware Drivers' application. Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Suddenly very slow to start
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, David Bowskill wrote: > Thanks for reply Dave. > There are no devices plugged into any USB port (apart from the mouse) > although the effect did seem to first arise when I was using a USB stick > some while ago. > I have run 'lsusb' in a terminal and the results are as below: > > da...@djb-p4:~$ lsusb > Bus 007 Device 002: ID 0461:4d01 Primax Electronics, Ltd Comfort Keyboard > Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub > Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0151 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass > Storage Device > Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub > da...@djb-p4:~$ > Hi, Just thought as another David, I could add to this thread :) It looks like the line... > Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0bda:0151 Realtek Semiconductor Corp. Mass > Storage Device ...is an internal media card reader. Do you have a card in the internal reader when you boot? If so, try removing that before boot up. There are ways to boot in safe mode or recovery mode or something too, which shows all the startup messages scrolling up the screen. If you get there, you may see some errors about what the problem is. Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu and e-tax
Hi Geoff, Last year, I got e-Tax working on my netbook using Wine. I certainly had success in doing all the sections but I didn't try two vital things: 1) That pre-roll thing. 2) Submitting the actual claim. I ended up going to an accountant. There was some work I had to do to get Wine working fine for e-Tax, just adding some extra windows libraries I think. There was a nice script that helped me install them that I found somewhere. So to sum it up, I was sort-of successful with using Wine :) Cheers, Dave On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Geoffrey wrote: > This month is the 1st anniversary of my installation of Linux Ubuntu. > I am extremely happy with the Ubuntu and use it for almost everything. > However there are several Windows vital programs that I must use for > which I have XP on a separate HDD. One of these programs is e-tax. > This is what the ATO has to say about OSs: > "E-tax is not compatible with Linux or Apple Macintosh computers. > However, e-tax has been tested successfully on an Apple computer running > OS X v10.4.11 with Virtual PC 7 software emulating a recommended Windows > operating system. Some Linux users have reported success using 'Wine', > but we have not tested this. Wine is a translation layer (a program > loader) capable of running Windows applications on Linux and other POSIX > compatible operating systems. > > We are committed to providing you with easier, cheaper and more > personalised service. Part of this initiative is a commitment to the > continuous improvement of e-tax. We will continue investigating ways to > make e-tax available on different computer platforms." > > I am looking to the future and wonder if any Australian users of Ubuntu > have been successful using 'Wine'. Note that I always roll-over > information from a previous year's e-tax. > > Geoffrey Combes > > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au > -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Entry Level Network Printer
On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Paul Gear wrote: > Paul Gear wrote: >> ... >> With those models, you would need to either >> connect them to your server (cheap & easy) or get a networked version >> ... > Brother do cheapo network printers. I have an older one and Ubuntu detects it juust fine and can print great. Not too sure which newer models are which but I recommend giving them a look in. Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Maximus
On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Simon Ives wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestions. > > There is one other application, added by default, under "exclude_class" in > "gconf-editor /apps/maximus" which is Totem media player - listed as "Totem". > > I added "VLC" to "exclude_class" and it still starts up maximised with > Maximus. > > I ran: > > $ xprop | grep WM_CLASS > > and clicked the VLC window and it seems VLC is one of those apps that doesn't > set this property as the result was: > > WM_CLASS(STRING) = "", "" > > It's not such a big deal, at least I now know how to adjust the settings for > other apps. > > Thanks again. > This sounds a lot like a bug that should be raised against the VLC package in Ubuntu -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Maximus
2009/4/2 : > Actually - just realised that maximus my be checking the 'WM_CLASS' setting. > You can find that by running "xprop | grep WM_CLASS" but not all > applications set that xproperty > > These are the instructions that I got from the developer when Eclipse was doing the same thing (on its splash screen): "Hmm, it seems it doesn't set the correct window_type hint hence maximus doens't know that it's a splashscreen. Can you please run $ xprop | grep WM_CLASS in a terminal,click on the splashscreen and then paste the output here please. It is a bit tricky to do this due to the distinct lack of space on the screen, so I normally: - Set the terminal window to be "Above all windows" - Run the command in the terminal - Alt+F2 and type in prgram name - click on the splashscreen Thanks. " Just do the same, but for VLC I guess. Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Remote notification of reboot required?
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way i can tell without logging in on the console if an > automatic update on a Hardy desktop system requires a reboot? I have a > desktop machine in a remote office that i usually access via ssh, and > i'd like to check to see if an update has triggered the "reboot > required" flag. This is all driven by python libraries underneath so I imagine you could write a script to interface with those. Sorry I am no more help, but I hope I inspre you to dig a little further and get what you need. Cheers and good luck, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Installed from USB stick now can only but *from* the USB stick
Sorry for the long and technical post. I installed Ubuntu Intrepid Alpha 6 on my new Dell 910 netbook. To do this, I used a USB memory stick with the mini.iso on it and installed by sucking the packages from the net. I did it this way rather than using a full disk image because I use approx to cache packages. The install went quite well however, I have now noticed that I need to have the USB stick in the USB port and manually select to boot from it if I actually want Ubuntu to boot up. If I didn't do it this way, it would simply try and network boot, ignoring the hard disk completely. I have since set the 'boot' flag on the HDD using GParted and it at least tries to boot from that HDD now, but complains that there is no valid Operating System. Looking at my drives, the USB stick is recognised as /dev/sdb and the HDD is /dev/sda as you would expect. /dev/sda does have a proper boot folder etc. The only real anomoly I can see is that in the file /boot/grub/menu.lst the 'root' option for each menu entry is set to '(hd1,0)'. Is this normal? Any ideas of how to fix this problem. If I need to re-install, I can do that now I have all the packages cached but I would rather not. Regards, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: MythTV - program guide info
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:25 PM, Slawek Drabot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > last time I took a look at shepherd I realized it was just a wrapper around > my existing tv_grab_au script (which uses yahoo as I mentioned before) > > any progress done in the way shepherd works in the last year or so? > It is more than a wrapper. It uses many sources incase the Yahoo pages get updated so the Yahoo script doesn't work. And it also gets data from IMDB etc to give you more information about movies. It also flags any shows that are in HD as being HD. And it can get your channel icons into mythTV. And it auto-updates. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: MythTV - program guide info
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Chris Debenham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use 'shepherd'. It is kept up to date and grabs the data from multiple > sources (so it handles site problems well) It also grabs extra details > from imdb/tvrage for programs. > Check it out at http://svn.whuffy.com/index.cgi/wiki I am a long time shepherd user too. It is certainly a 'setup and then forget about it' solution. Brilliant. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Myth TV Back-end on my file server
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 12:37 AM, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Am I able to connect to myth-setup via ssh -X? To be honest, I don't know. The best place for these sorts of questions is on the mythtv.org mailing list, http://mythtv.org. I can guarantee it has been asked before though so a quick search of the archives would be well advised. http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/ is where you can find the archives. HTH's Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Myth TV Back-end on my file server
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:13 PM, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This talk of MythTV has reignited my interest in setting up a MythTV system > at home. Before I dive in though I was wondering if anyone has had any > experience, or knows if it's possible, to set-up the MythTV back-end on a > headless Ubuntu file server? > Thanks. I think you need an X session or something so that you can run the myth-setup program which is QT. One you have done the initial setup, you can go headless I believe. HTH's Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Best way to set TV-Out to be PAL
Hi all, I have an AOpen miniPC which has an Intel 945 graphics chip which I use for TV out. On my PC screen, everything is perfect. When I plugged it into the TV last night, via S-Video to RCA cable, I didn't have to make any changes to xorg.conf to get TV-out working or anything, (I was most impressed) but the desktop was black and white After doing some research, I found that this was a known issue and the Intel driver needed to be told to use the PAL standard manually. This is possible from the command line using the following two commands: xrandr --output TV --set TV_FORMAT PAL; xrandr --output TV --auto; which instantly made the picture perfect. I put the above two commands in /etc/rc.local and rebooted but I still had a grey screen. I am wondering if there is a better way to do the above or if I should just configure my xorg.conf to only ever use the TV-out display and use the Options directive to inform it to use the PAL standard. I think the only problem then would be subsequently trying to use a monitor...right? Any ideas? Regards, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Eee-PC 900 in AU?
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Sebastian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I've read on a new site that the upcoming Eee-PC 900 will sell for 549 > US$ starting on 12. May. > The 900 model hasn't been released in AU yet. It is the one with the 9" screen I believe and the reports I read had it scheduled for a May release date here. I don't know what the price is, but I would rather wait for the (hoped) Atom powered EeePC, which should be here in a couple of months too :) Regards, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Urban Terror friendly clan!
On Feb 7, 2008 2:35 PM, Toma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If youre interested, reply here or simply to my mailing list so I can > get an idea of numbers. > Thanks! > Toma. Hmmm, I wish this could be installed out of an Ubuntu repo. I try and ensure that is the only type of software I run/install. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Wireless network card won't connect to router
Hi, I installed Gutsy on my brothers laptop tonight and everything went OK, except the wireless network card doesn't seem to work too well. It can detect my network and when I select my router using Network Manager it pops up the encryption key dialog. I enter the key (i use 64Bit Hex) and the icon in the status tray shows that it is trying to connect, however, it always fails. Sometimes, after trying a couple of times, NM crashes and the laptop starts to behave wierd (i.e. System tools don't show when started, commands run in the terminal fail to execute, etc) and I have to reboot. I don't think this is a driver issue as I am at least finding the router and it identifies that it is encrypted, but I have been stumped all night. I am using the acx driver, since this is a D-Link DWL-650+ PCMCIA card. Does anyone have any ideas? Would it be worth trying the Ndiswrapper and would that still behave OK with NM? Is Ndis as hard to configure as all the different How-Tos make out? Any help is appreciated. Ta, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking
On Jan 30, 2008 7:03 AM, Daniel Mons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using ANZ's website plus Linux/Firefox for 5+ years now with > no problems. I've never had any of the issues mentioned thus far. > Hi Dan, Have you tried accessing ANZ lately? It was working fine for me for a week and then it went bad. I wonder if it is a change that they have made to their site somewhere. Cheers, Dave -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: [chat/mel8ourne] Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking
On Jan 30, 2008 7:00 AM, Neil Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Going direct over the LCA network it is sluggish at best, though it > hasn't actually caused iceweasel to crash. > Who is LCA? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking
On Jan 29, 2008 8:07 PM, Dave Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Have you tried clearing all *.anz.* cookies and your browser cache? > > PS - I always go straight to https://www.anz.com/inetbank/bankmain.asp > to login to ANZ's internet banking. > I removed the one anz cookie I had then went to the direct link above and was able to login fine. Unsure whether it was the cookie or the way I enetered the site I then tried from the main page again and again firefox crashed. Weird eh? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking
Hi All, I have found that when I try and access the internet banking site on either of my Gutsy machines it causes firefox to crash. The ANZ home page is fine, the internet banking login popup is fine, but when I enter my credentials and hit the login button, firefox locks up. Anyone here with ANZ and having the same problem? I am pretty sure this was working fine on my Gutsy laptop before the weekend! Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Upgraded to Gutsy but wrong kernel is being booted
Hi, I did the upgrade to Gutsy from the Update Manager on the weekend and whilst everything seems to be running just fine, I do notice that when the default boot kernel is still the old 2.6.20 one from Feisty. The new 2.6.22 kernel is installed however. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux myth 2.6.20-15-generic #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:36:31 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I don't recall ever modifying the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to specify a particular boot image, however, I may have done. I would have thought that I would have gotten a notification about that though when the new kernel was installed. Attached is the menu.lst file. It seems to have a 'default' entry, should I just set that to zero, or will that prevent any future updates from becoming the default? Cheers, Whytey menu.lst Description: Binary data -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Local support
On Jan 24, 2008 9:57 AM, Tony Addis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have loaded 7.10 (which looks great) on my computer > but need help on getting Internet access with my D-Link ADSL router; a Is this your router or modem? Is it connected via USB, wireless or ethernet? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
On Jan 21, 2008 8:53 PM, Stuart Hector <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was however a bit dissapointed to then read this article on slashdot which > explains that the Eee PC seems to be in violation of the GPL. I hope it gets > resolved. It looks like a great bit of gear. > http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/25/1331259 That was long since resolved. Asus has since provided the source code, within a small number of days of that report. They 'accidentally' forgot to make it available. :) -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?
On Jan 20, 2008 9:53 PM, Andrew G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi dov, > > I just wanted to say thank for all this detailed info. Also, the ASUS > Eee PC sounds like a fun & practical PC to have (I've recommend it to > a friend who wants to use a laptop for standard tasks..) and I'll > probably still get a Dell as I'd like to still be able to play around > with Ubuntu. I don't have an EeePC (yet) but I really like its form. Anyways, I saw that you could run full blown Ubuntu on there, even with the 3D effects. I will probably wait for a slightly better screen. I really couldn't work on something with such low resolution, especially if I chose to do some programming in an IDE. Anyways, a video of the EeePC running compiz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ru780Jfc1bQ Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re Bigpond Ubuntu Repository: Fwd: [Ticket #63088] BigPond Download Problem
FYI below is Bigpond's response to not having a mirror of the multiverse packages. Regards, Whytey -- Forwarded message -- From: David Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 3, 2008 9:44 AM Subject: [Ticket #63088] BigPond Download Problem To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, No, this is currently intentional, due to disk space and legal concerns. We're still evaluating multiverse but currently have no plans to include it. Regards, David On Mon Dec 31 00:16:32 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Having a number of Ubuntu PC's at home I am very happy to see the >local (and unmetered) Ubuntu repository. I am a little surprised >that there is no mirror of the multiverse repository however, and >was wandering whether this was an oversight of Bigponds and whether >it would likely be fixed in the near future? > > Regards, > David >Whyte -- Regards, -- David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: Bigpond Ubuntu Respository
On Dec 22, 2007 3:06 PM, Les Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 4. Do this for all Ubuntu repositories you use except multiverse, which > for some reason is not mirrored by Bigpond. If you use the multiverse > repository just leave it's line(s) as it is. > Grrr, I use approx to cache/mirror/whatever the downloaded packages inside my LAN, mainly to save on precious bigpond bandwidth, but also to speed up the update process. With multiverse not being mirrores by Telstra I am not sure whether I can simply use the following configuration in approx.conf ubuntu http://mirror.pacific.net.au/ubuntu/ ubuntu http://ubuntu.apt-get.eu/ubuntu and let it fail over to the normal Ubuntu repository when updating multiverse. Does anyone have any insight into this? Cheers, Whytey -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
