[ubuntu-uk] Welsh Release Party Meeting
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For those who are interested in attending the (or a) release party in Wales, there is a meeting tonight in #ubuntu-cym (Cymru, which is Welsh for Wales) at 7pm regarding the the venue and other details that need to be ironed out. If you require any assistance for attending the meeting over IRC, there are instructions here for how to join https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WelshTeam/IRC . The language of the meeting will be in English if you are put off by the name however afterwards idle channel banter can be in either English, Welsh or whatever language an op i able moderate, even Klingon if the need may be ;-). There will be logs of the meeting posted after the meeting has finished to the wiki of WelshTeam. So if you are in Wales or close to the border or even as far away as Scotland and wish to attend or just help organise, it would be appreciated if you could make it tonight, sorry for the short notice! We will be discussing both Northern and Southern parties depending on the turnout in IRC. With kind regards, Chris (or ianto in IRC) - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknOKN8ACgkQYckxdhCgq46utQCffK6egLtzVeYV8SuoXkMNP2+r xZYAnReJNa3inzEWm/7Zh9NP5nU47Iog =B5TT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow
Gordon wrote: > Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. > Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but > is so slow as to be unusable. > Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this? Hello, Gordon. I had a similar problem with the Broadcom WiFi chipset on my Asus A6K notebook, so I installed "ndiswrapper-utils" and "ndisgtk", which is a GUI for setting up NDIS drivers. I've now got a 54Mb/s WiFi connection! Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:33 +, Gordon wrote: > Matthew Daubney wrote: > > On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +, Gordon wrote: > >> Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. > >> Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but > >> is so slow as to be unusable. > >> Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this? > > > > Hiya, > > > > I've got a USB wireless dongle that uses this chipset and have had > > similar problems. There is a very old bug report at > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275302 and I've > > emailed the people who are listed as the module developers, but had no > > response. It looks like the device just randomly drops a LOT of packets. > > I've had a quick look at trying to fix it myself, but I don't really > > understand how these things work! > > > > Not very helpful I know, some people have had some success with > > ndiswrapper, a horrible hack I know, but if it works? > > > > -Matt Daubney > > > > > > I've been looking at this: > http://zenzike.blogspot.com/2008/11/wireless-woes.html > which seems to have had a good response - however I get into trouble > with the patching process - there is apparently no command "patch" in > Ubuntu, and when I go to Synaptic to install it, there is no "patch" > available. > Any ideas on that one? > http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=patch indicates that its there. You might want to update synaptic. If in doubt try running "sudo apt-get install patch" from a terminal. HTH -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow
Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +, Gordon wrote: >> Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. >> Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but >> is so slow as to be unusable. >> Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this? > > Hiya, > > I've got a USB wireless dongle that uses this chipset and have had > similar problems. There is a very old bug report at > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275302 and I've > emailed the people who are listed as the module developers, but had no > response. It looks like the device just randomly drops a LOT of packets. > I've had a quick look at trying to fix it myself, but I don't really > understand how these things work! > > Not very helpful I know, some people have had some success with > ndiswrapper, a horrible hack I know, but if it works? > > -Matt Daubney > > I've been looking at this: http://zenzike.blogspot.com/2008/11/wireless-woes.html which seems to have had a good response - however I get into trouble with the patching process - there is apparently no command "patch" in Ubuntu, and when I go to Synaptic to install it, there is no "patch" available. Any ideas on that one? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +, Gordon wrote: > Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. > Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but > is so slow as to be unusable. > Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this? Hiya, I've got a USB wireless dongle that uses this chipset and have had similar problems. There is a very old bug report at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/275302 and I've emailed the people who are listed as the module developers, but had no response. It looks like the device just randomly drops a LOT of packets. I've had a quick look at trying to fix it myself, but I don't really understand how these things work! Not very helpful I know, some people have had some success with ndiswrapper, a horrible hack I know, but if it works? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow
Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but is so slow as to be unusable. Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
