Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 02/05/10 14:03, Alan Lord (News) wrote: The script that update-grub calls - grub-mkconfig - looks for kernels and so forth and automatically generates the config file for grub. It*should* find any kernels in /boot so perhaps when you ran it the relevant partition wasn't mounted? You can also manually edit your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and try adding a new boot option pointing the linux /vmlinux-XXX ... line to the necessary drive designation (i.e. /dev/sda2 - where the / root partition of Lucid is) rather than UUID strings and try that. At least it might give you a way of playing and testing things. HTH Al Hi Alan, thank you for the message. Unfortunately, I have no idea what you are talking about. Tried reading that through about half dozen times, and wouldnt even know where to start. Can you explain a bit more? John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Banbury Lucid Release Party
Hi Due to the time and effort, i put into organising and planning the Lucid release party. For maverick meerkat 10.10, i will setup a website where people can register their interest as well as attendance and ideas, so i can see what attendance is going to be like and people's ideas for the party. So I will know if its worth me putting my time and effort into planning and organising it again. Thanks for all your support, and the ideas for the planning of lucid release party. Philip Taylor brobosti...@freenode -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] No wireless connection on Ubuntu 10.4 Netbook remix
I am looking for help to enable my Acer eee 1000H to connect wirelessly to my router. This netbook has a dual boot system. There is XP on one partition and a clean install of Ubuntu 10.4 on the other. The Ubuntu sees the router and asks me for the key. I type this exaxtly and hit the connect key but Ubuntu fails to connect and after an interval again asks for the key and on entering it again still fails to connect and eventually Ubuntu says that I am offline.My router has no difficulty communicating with the XP partition wirelessly and neither does my Internet radio nor my iMac which has also dual boot with Mac OSX and Vista. Before I installed Ubuntu 10.4 on my netbook the installation was Ubuntu 9.10 on the netbook Ubuntu partition and this connected without problem with my router. At present I can only connect using Ubuntu 10.4 via ethernet cable. I have looked at the icon Hardware drivers in Ubuntu. This states that there are no proprietory drivers installed.. I ran through Terminal lspci and attach the file which shows no drivers for the wireless card. That card is an 802,11n Wireless Lan card manufactured by Ralink Technology Corp. I have tried to solve the problem by running sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get --reinstall bcmwl-kernel-source sudo reboot This had no effect and no driver appeared in the Hardware Drivers icon. I also ran in Terminal sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter This did not resolve the problem There are still no drivers shown in the Hardware Drivers icon. I am sure that this problem can be resolved and would appreciate help so that I can enjoy the new Ubuntu 10,4 fully. Regards Benjy Report Description: Binary data -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 03/05/10 10:32, John Matthews wrote: On 02/05/10 14:03, Alan Lord (News) wrote: The script that update-grub calls - grub-mkconfig - looks for kernels and so forth and automatically generates the config file for grub. It*should* find any kernels in /boot so perhaps when you ran it the relevant partition wasn't mounted? You can also manually edit your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and try adding a new boot option pointing the linux /vmlinux-XXX ... line to the necessary drive designation (i.e. /dev/sda2 - where the / root partition of Lucid is) rather than UUID strings and try that. Hi Alan, thank you for the message. Unfortunately, I have no idea what you are talking about. Tried reading that through about half dozen times, and wouldnt even know where to start. Can you explain a bit more? Ahh, earlier a respondentsuggested you run the command sudo update-grub. If you open a terminal and type man update-grub it will tell you a little about this file (it is just small shell script) which calls another shell script called grub-mkconfig with some parameters. If you then type man grub-mkconfig it mentions that this file creates a grub config file. You can actually look at the shell script if you like. To find out where it is first, type: which grub-mkconfig The result of which should be /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig So you now open and look at the script if you want to: less /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig But the whole reason for my reply was that you said: Hi sorry its taken me so long to get back to you, I did what you said sudo update-grub and it didnt change anything on the grub, but also, Ubuntu stopped loading after the grub. Now that command rebuilds the grub config file automatically by searching for interesting kernels and creating the right entries in the grub config file: /boot/grub/grub.cfg (You can examine it by typing less /boot/grub/grub.cfg. If you feel brave, make a copy of it (use sudo in front the commands) and then add a new entry manually that loads the new lucid kernel. You should have a file in the /boot directory called something like vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic with a similarly named initrd.img file. It is these which need to be loaded first. These two key lines in my grub.cfg: linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=9e126082-f552-44ce-a103-925779c31147 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic tell grub what to load. There might be several groups of boot options in your grub.cfg, you can, if you are careful, copy one of them and add a new one for your lucid kernel of it doesn't exist and then select that on start-up (Hold the shift key down when you power-on the PC and keep it held until you get the grub boot menu). Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! HTH Alan -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 10:32, John Matthews wrote: On 02/05/10 14:03, Alan Lord (News) wrote: The script that update-grub calls - grub-mkconfig - looks for kernels and so forth and automatically generates the config file for grub. It*should* find any kernels in /boot so perhaps when you ran it the relevant partition wasn't mounted? You can also manually edit your /boot/grub/grub.cfg file and try adding a new boot option pointing the linux /vmlinux-XXX ... line to the necessary drive designation (i.e. /dev/sda2 - where the / root partition of Lucid is) rather than UUID strings and try that. Hi Alan, thank you for the message. Unfortunately, I have no idea what you are talking about. Tried reading that through about half dozen times, and wouldnt even know where to start. Can you explain a bit more? Ahh, earlier a respondentsuggested you run the command sudo update-grub. If you open a terminal and type man update-grub it will tell you a little about this file (it is just small shell script) which calls another shell script called grub-mkconfig with some parameters. If you then type man grub-mkconfig it mentions that this file creates a grub config file. You can actually look at the shell script if you like. To find out where it is first, type: which grub-mkconfig The result of which should be /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig So you now open and look at the script if you want to: less /usr/sbin/grub-mkconfig But the whole reason for my reply was that you said: Hi sorry its taken me so long to get back to you, I did what you said sudo update-grub and it didnt change anything on the grub, but also, Ubuntu stopped loading after the grub. Now that command rebuilds the grub config file automatically by searching for interesting kernels and creating the right entries in the grub config file: /boot/grub/grub.cfg (You can examine it by typing less /boot/grub/grub.cfg. If you feel brave, make a copy of it (use sudo in front the commands) and then add a new entry manually that loads the new lucid kernel. You should have a file in the /boot directory called something like vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic with a similarly named initrd.img file. It is these which need to be loaded first. These two key lines in my grub.cfg: linux /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic root=UUID=9e126082-f552-44ce-a103-925779c31147 ro quiet splash initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-21-generic tell grub what to load. There might be several groups of boot options in your grub.cfg, you can, if you are careful, copy one of them and add a new one for your lucid kernel of it doesn't exist and then select that on start-up (Hold the shift key down when you power-on the PC and keep it held until you get the grub boot menu). Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! HTH Alan Hi Alan, I am not sure about hacking, the fact that so many things can go wrong, and I dont have enough experience to work things out, it makes me kind of worried. I am still having problems playing flash videos. Still cant get some types to play, and have to use windows to play them. Something I remembered to do, when I did sudo update-grub which by the way, was posted on there, by somebody on another e-mail, a lot of what came out of it, had errors on, so I took a copy of it. Not that I understood anything, which is why I took a copy. (not had a very good weekend, so completely forgot about that until this morning) I have added it to pastebin and here is the url to look at it. http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/63958 Hope that helps a little bit. The grub still doesnt show its Lucid, and it still has all 10 or so kernels showing, but it is loading Lucid. Yet after fiddling, turning machine on and off, it will eventually load. John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! One other thing I should say is that so far I've upgraded 2 desktop PCs and one laptop from Karmic to Lucid and the upgrade process worked fine. I haven't experienced any problems with grub or config files myself. My PCs generally have a separate /boot partition. Just out of habit I tend to use /dev/sda1 for /boot and then have a couple of 10-15G partitions for / and the rest of the drive (or another partition on a different disk) for a common /home with a /swap at the end of the disk. Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No wireless connection on Ubuntu 10.4 Netbook remix
On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:40:23 +0100, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for help to enable my Acer eee 1000H to connect wirelessly to my router. This netbook has a dual boot system. There is XP on one partition and a clean install of Ubuntu 10.4 on the other. The Ubuntu sees the router and asks me for the key. I type this exaxtly and hit the connect key but Ubuntu fails to connect and after an interval again asks for the key and snip I am sure that this problem can be resolved and would appreciate help so that I can enjoy the new Ubuntu 10,4 fully. Regards Benjy Have looked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/545443 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/496093 -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
I tried to download Skype to my Ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix yesterday but failed I had a no entry sign at the top of the screen this morning which said An error occured E Malformed line 55 in Source.list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) E The list of sources could not be read Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem E -cache-open () failed, please report Can some guidance be given as to how to clear this issue. I am not very experienced with Ubuntu and to not want to mess things up! Thanks Benjy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No wireless connection on Ubuntu 10.4 Netbook remix
Thank you Steve. Will do Best, Benjy On 3 May 2010 11:59, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:40:23 +0100, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for help to enable my Acer eee 1000H to connect wirelessly to my router. This netbook has a dual boot system. There is XP on one partition and a clean install of Ubuntu 10.4 on the other. The Ubuntu sees the router and asks me for the key. I type this exaxtly and hit the connect key but Ubuntu fails to connect and after an interval again asks for the key and snip I am sure that this problem can be resolved and would appreciate help so that I can enjoy the new Ubuntu 10,4 fully. Regards Benjy Have looked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/545443 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/496093 -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 03/05/10 11:58, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! One other thing I should say is that so far I've upgraded 2 desktop PCs and one laptop from Karmic to Lucid and the upgrade process worked fine. I haven't experienced any problems with grub or config files myself. My PCs generally have a separate /boot partition. Just out of habit I tend to use /dev/sda1 for /boot and then have a couple of 10-15G partitions for / and the rest of the drive (or another partition on a different disk) for a common /home with a /swap at the end of the disk. Al I wish that would have happened to me. I lost my Windows partition on the PC, when I installed Karmic, and the new grub, when it had that fault where it did something to the Windows partition. Still cant get that back. Windows loads so far, and that is it. So have to use a partitioned laptop for video stuff, which had problems with updating to Lucid, it works, just. The Netbook, well, I thought I had completely lost that, but managed to work out a way to get it back, now it seems to work ok, but havent done much on there, for fear of breaking it. Saying all that, I am getting there. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No wireless connection on Ubuntu 10.4 Netbook remix
Hi Steve, The info you gave is exactly to the point. The problem is bug/545443 and bug/496093. Hopefully this bug will be corrected by an update in the near future as without a correction affected netbooks will not be using the otherwise excellent Ubuntu 10.4 and reduced to reverting to xp! Regards Benjy On 3 May 2010 11:59, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:40:23 +0100, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: I am looking for help to enable my Acer eee 1000H to connect wirelessly to my router. This netbook has a dual boot system. There is XP on one partition and a clean install of Ubuntu 10.4 on the other. The Ubuntu sees the router and asks me for the key. I type this exaxtly and hit the connect key but Ubuntu fails to connect and after an interval again asks for the key and snip I am sure that this problem can be resolved and would appreciate help so that I can enjoy the new Ubuntu 10,4 fully. Regards Benjy Have looked at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/545443 https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/496093 -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
Thanks for this Steve. Will try! Benjy On 3 May 2010 12:33, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:59:48 +0100, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to download Skype to my Ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix yesterday but failed I had a no entry sign at the top of the screen this morning which said An error occured E Malformed line 55 in Source.list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) E The list of sources could not be read Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem E -cache-open () failed, please report Can some guidance be given as to how to clear this issue. I am not very experienced with Ubuntu and to not want to mess things up! Thanks Benjy Run sudo apt-get update in a terminal and see if you get the same error as it may just be temporary. I’ve had a few messages like this since Thursday as there servers are getting a bit of a work over. -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
Hi Steve, On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list enjy On 3 May 2010 12:39, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for this Steve. Will try! Benjy On 3 May 2010 12:33, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:59:48 +0100, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to download Skype to my Ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix yesterday but failed I had a no entry sign at the top of the screen this morning which said An error occured E Malformed line 55 in Source.list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) E The list of sources could not be read Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem E -cache-open () failed, please report Can some guidance be given as to how to clear this issue. I am not very experienced with Ubuntu and to not want to mess things up! Thanks Benjy Run sudo apt-get update in a terminal and see if you get the same error as it may just be temporary. I’ve had a few messages like this since Thursday as there servers are getting a bit of a work over. -- Steve (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file /etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get. You probably pasted a line in and it was either truncated, split over multiple lines or in some other way broken. Simply do the following:- ALT+F2 gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list In the text editor scroll down to line 55. The line should either start with a hash symbol indicating a comment, or the word deb or deb-src. It may be that its a continuation of the line above. To fix it you need to know what the line should be. Let us know what you have. You could also copy and paste the entire file from the editor into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ and let us have the link so we can look at it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Steve, On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list enjy On 3 May 2010 12:33, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 03 May 2010 11:59:48 +0100, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: I tried to download Skype to my Ubuntu 10.4 netbook remix yesterday but failed I had a no entry sign at the top of the screen this morning which said An error occured E Malformed line 55 in Source.list /etc/apt/sources.list (dist parse) E The list of sources could not be read Go to the repository dialogue to correct the problem E -cache-open () failed, please report It sounds like there is something wrong with your /etc/apt/sources.list file at line 55 You could run the *System* *Administration* *Software Sources*application. This may tell you which line is causing the error and if your very luck fix it. If you are feeling brave, you can edit the /etc/apt/sources.list file yourself, this has to be done as root (super user). Use the following command in a terminal window: gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banbury Lucid Release Party
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:40 +0100, philip taylor wrote: Hi Due to the time and effort, i put into organising and planning the Lucid release party. For maverick meerkat 10.10, i will setup a website where people can register their interest as well as attendance and ideas, so i can see what attendance is going to be like and people's ideas for the party. So I will know if its worth me putting my time and effort into planning and organising it again. Philip, Can you add a line about the release party to the April team report [1] please? Everybody else who's done something interesting, please add it too. Whether your contribution is small or large or is business as usual for you, it's worth a line on the report. Thanks for all your support, and the ideas for the planning of lucid release party. Maybe it's worth a short wiki page or something similar to give ideas to other people who may want to organise a release party in the future? Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
Hi Al, I looked at the sources file. I had made a mistake as I had written deb http//: whereas I should have written deb http:// I corrected the line and then went to software sources and corrected there the package source. However I am still getting the malformed line 55 report. I rechecked the sources list and this now skows the corrected source ie deb http:// Why should this be? Benjy On 3 May 2010 12:49, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file /etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get. You probably pasted a line in and it was either truncated, split over multiple lines or in some other way broken. Simply do the following:- ALT+F2 gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list In the text editor scroll down to line 55. The line should either start with a hash symbol indicating a comment, or the word deb or deb-src. It may be that its a continuation of the line above. To fix it you need to know what the line should be. Let us know what you have. You could also copy and paste the entire file from the editor into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ and let us have the link so we can look at it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 3 May 2010 12:06, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 03/05/10 11:58, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! One other thing I should say is that so far I've upgraded 2 desktop PCs and one laptop from Karmic to Lucid and the upgrade process worked fine. I haven't experienced any problems with grub or config files myself. My PCs generally have a separate /boot partition. Just out of habit I tend to use /dev/sda1 for /boot and then have a couple of 10-15G partitions for / and the rest of the drive (or another partition on a different disk) for a common /home with a /swap at the end of the disk. Al I wish that would have happened to me. I lost my Windows partition on the PC, when I installed Karmic, and the new grub, when it had that fault where it did something to the Windows partition. Still cant get that back. Windows loads so far, and that is it. So have to use a partitioned laptop for video stuff, which had problems with updating to Lucid, it works, just. The Netbook, well, I thought I had completely lost that, but managed to work out a way to get it back, now it seems to work ok, but havent done much on there, for fear of breaking it. Saying all that, I am getting there. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 I suffered this problem some time ago when I had 9.10 installed as a dual boot laptop (also on a Sky router although I do not think that is connected to the issue). In the end I found that it was the gnome network applet that was causing the issue. I replaced it with wicd and everything worked fine thereafter. sudo apt-get install wicd will take care of the installtion and gnome network applet removal in one go. Regards Stu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem
My notebook is set for auto updates, LTR, but have not been offered the option to upgrade to 10.4 yet, am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Michael _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/ Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem
Have you tried sudo do-release-upgrade at the terminal? Les On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:50 +, Michael Daniels wrote: My notebook is set for auto updates, LTR, but have not been offered the option to upgrade to 10.4 yet, am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Michael __ Get a new e-mail account with Hotmail - Free. Sign-up now. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malformed line 55
Hi Al The problem is fixed and I now have Skype up and running. Ubuntu was right and I was wrong. I had mistyped http//:instead of http:// and after correcting this there was another typo! When at last these blunders were corrected all went smoothly. Remind me not to seek employment as a typist! Best Benjy On 3 May 2010 12:49, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote: On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file /etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get. You probably pasted a line in and it was either truncated, split over multiple lines or in some other way broken. Simply do the following:- ALT+F2 gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list In the text editor scroll down to line 55. The line should either start with a hash symbol indicating a comment, or the word deb or deb-src. It may be that its a continuation of the line above. To fix it you need to know what the line should be. Let us know what you have. You could also copy and paste the entire file from the editor into http://paste.ubuntu.com/ and let us have the link so we can look at it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:50 +, Michael Daniels wrote: My notebook is set for auto updates, LTR, but have not been offered the option to upgrade to 10.4 yet, am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Michael Hi Michael, If you go System-Administration-Update Manager, and click check. At the top of that window a button should appear offering you the upgrade. If that doesn't work, give us a yell back and we'll see what we can do. Thanks, Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 03/05/10 11:58, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/05/10 11:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Having said all this, it might not be the wisest advice to give you. You can break things. But if it is broken then it probably doesn't matter so much. Obviously backup all your data before hacking away! One other thing I should say is that so far I've upgraded 2 desktop PCs and one laptop from Karmic to Lucid and the upgrade process worked fine. I haven't experienced any problems with grub or config files myself. My PCs generally have a separate /boot partition. Just out of habit I tend to use /dev/sda1 for /boot and then have a couple of 10-15G partitions for / and the rest of the drive (or another partition on a different disk) for a common /home with a /swap at the end of the disk. Al Not sure if this got to the group, so will post again. Hi Alan, I am not sure about hacking, the fact that so many things can go wrong, and I dont have enough experience to work things out, it makes me kind of worried. I am still having problems playing flash videos. Still cant get some types to play, and have to use windows to play them. Something I remembered to do, when I did sudo update-grub which by the way, was posted on there, by somebody on another e-mail, a lot of what came out of it, had errors on, so I took a copy of it. Not that I understood anything, which is why I took a copy. (not had a very good weekend, so completely forgot about that until this morning) I have added it to pastebin and here is the url to look at it. http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/63958 Hope that helps a little bit. The grub still doesnt show its Lucid, and it still has all 10 or so kernels showing, but it is loading Lucid. Yet after fiddling, turning machine on and off, it will eventually load. Can somebody help with this still? John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 03/05/10 14:47, Stuart Bird wrote: I suffered this problem some time ago when I had 9.10 installed as a dual boot laptop (also on a Sky router although I do not think that is connected to the issue). In the end I found that it was the gnome network applet that was causing the issue. I replaced it with wicd and everything worked fine thereafter. sudo apt-get install wicd will take care of the installtion and gnome network applet removal in one go. Regards Stu Hi Stu, was that about the dual boot, or the boot into Ubuntu. If you remember my first e-mail, I think mine stems from an incomplete installation, caused by Wine not installing in the upgrade. Then performing sudo update-grub and that doing something when Ubuntu Loads from startup. I think most of the problems are from the part installation. John. -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Final Upgrade to Lucid, not worked completely
On 3 May 2010 15:52, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Not sure if this got to the group, so will post again. Hi Alan, I am not sure about hacking, the fact that so many things can go wrong, and I dont have enough experience to work things out, it makes me kind of worried. I am still having problems playing flash videos. Still cant get some types to play, and have to use windows to play them. Something I remembered to do, when I did sudo update-grub which by the way, was posted on there, by somebody on another e-mail, a lot of what came out of it, had errors on, so I took a copy of it. Not that I understood anything, which is why I took a copy. (not had a very good weekend, so completely forgot about that until this morning) I have added it to pastebin and here is the url to look at it. http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/63958 Hope that helps a little bit. The grub still doesnt show its Lucid, and it still has all 10 or so kernels showing, but it is loading Lucid. Yet after fiddling, turning machine on and off, it will eventually load. Can somebody help with this still? John. You may have too many kernels. In grub there is a setting to only use a specified number of kernels. I had this back on a 9.xx distribution. Either remove your older kernels (using the package manager / apt-get) or increase the number of kernels that grub will look for by editing the grub config file (I'd have to google this, as I cant remember exactly). I remember that in the older distribution grub started with the earliest kernels first, so the new ones never showed up. -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Scottish Lucid Release Party
Hey guys, Just a wee mail to remind everyone that the Scottish Lucid Release Party is on Thursday at 18:00-22:00 in Strathclyde University's Union. Come along for laughs, laptops and lucid. (Ha, see what I did there?) YaManicKill -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
Hi all I have posted the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776 but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help me? It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, if needed. Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem
No, just get a notification that I am up to date, am still unable to auto-update to 10.04, thanks, Michael From: m...@daubers.co.uk To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 3 May 2010 15:45:10 +0100 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:50 +, Michael Daniels wrote: My notebook is set for auto updates, LTR, but have not been offered the option to upgrade to 10.4 yet, am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Michael Hi Michael, If you go System-Administration-Update Manager, and click check. At the top of that window a button should appear offering you the upgrade. If that doesn't work, give us a yell back and we'll see what we can do. Thanks, Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ _ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi all
I have posted the following bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
me?
It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, if
needed.
Tony
Hello,
That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
do you have?
Here's the error in the drivers code
if (rdev-family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev-family == CHIP_RS480) {
/* FIXME: RS400 RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
* if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
rdev-mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
DRM_ERROR(Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug ?)\n);
}
Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit
further.
Thanks,
-Matt Daubney
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On 3 May 2010 18:34, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi all I have posted the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776 but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help me? It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, if needed. Tony Can you see what version of linux (kernel) is showing in grub, it should have a version number such as 2.6.31-20. The only thing I can think of is that grub is using an older kernel and the modules for your video driver are going splat... -- John Stevenson jr0cket.com leanagilemachine.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 17:43 +, Michael Daniels wrote: No, just get a notification that I am up to date, am still unable to auto-update to 10.04, thanks, Michael Just guessing - does 10.04 show itself to update manager as LTS? Try telling it to always show updates Could be wrong Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi all
I have posted the following bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
me?
It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files, if
needed.
Tony
Hello,
That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
do you have?
Here's the error in the drivers code
if (rdev-family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev-family == CHIP_RS480) {
/* FIXME: RS400 RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
* if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
rdev-mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
DRM_ERROR(Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug
?)\n);
}
Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit
further.
Thanks,
-Matt Daubney
Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some
of the system RAM. The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop
with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if
you want but shutting XP rebooting takes an age)
Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
Tony
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi all
I have posted the following bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
me?
It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files,
if
needed.
Tony
Hello,
That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
do you have?
Here's the error in the drivers code
if (rdev-family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev-family == CHIP_RS480) {
/* FIXME: RS400 RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
* if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
rdev-mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
DRM_ERROR(Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug
?)\n);
}
Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit
further.
Thanks,
-Matt Daubney
Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some
of the system RAM. The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop
with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if
you want but shutting XP rebooting takes an age)
Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
Tony
Can you confirm that it boots with a livecd? You refer to your usb
stick, is that the live image you installed from?
-Matt
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi all
I have posted the following bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
me?
It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files,
if
needed.
Tony
Hello,
That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
do you have?
Here's the error in the drivers code
if (rdev-family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev-family == CHIP_RS480) {
/* FIXME: RS400 RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
* if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
rdev-mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
DRM_ERROR(Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug
?)\n);
}
Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit
further.
Thanks,
-Matt Daubney
Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some
of the system RAM. The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop
with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if
you want but shutting XP rebooting takes an age)
Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
Tony
The other question is, what partitions do you keep on the software raid?
ureadahead doesn't like /var having it's own partition apparently.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On 3 May 2010 at 20:25, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi all
I have posted the following bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
me?
It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config
files, if
needed.
Tony
Hello,
That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
do you have?
Here's the error in the drivers code
if (rdev-family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev-family == CHIP_RS480) {
/* FIXME: RS400 RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
* if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
rdev-mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
DRM_ERROR(Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug
?)\n);
}
Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit
further.
Thanks,
-Matt Daubney
Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some
of the system RAM. The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop
with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if
you want but shutting XP rebooting takes an age)
Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
Tony
The other question is, what partitions do you keep on the software raid?
ureadahead doesn't like /var having it's own partition apparently.
I have *no* software raid that I know of! Yes /var does have its own
partition.
I can boot off the USB stick with Lucid 10.04 LTS on it, but I did not
install from it. This was a distribution upgrade using Update Manager.
The kernels shown by GRUB are
2.6.32.21
2.6.31.21
2.6.27.11
I can't boot from the first two. The last one boots to a log in prompt,
then freezes, but gives me a console session on tty1. It also boots in
recovery mode.
Tony
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid
On 03/05/10 21:13, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 3 May 2010 at 20:25, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote:
Hi all
I have posted the following bug
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776
but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help
me?
It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is by using my
USB stick. So I can pull of log files, etc and modify any config files,
if
needed.
Tony
Hello,
That error is related to your graphics card. What gfx card and what RAM
do you have?
Here's the error in the drivers code
if (rdev-family == CHIP_RS400 || rdev-family == CHIP_RS480) {
/* FIXME: RS400 RS480 seems to have issue with GART size
* if 4G of system memory (needs more testing) */
rdev-mc.gtt_size = 32 * 1024 * 1024;
DRM_ERROR(Forcing to 32M GART size (because of ASIC bug
?)\n);
}
Can you let us know what hardware your system has and we can look a bit
further.
Thanks,
-Matt Daubney
Matt: Graphics is ATI Radeon Xpress 200 onboard which uses some
of the system RAM. The PC itself is an HP Pavilion t3510.uk desktop
with an HPvs17x flatscreen monitor and 1GB Ram.
John: The kernel is whatever kernel Lucid installs (I can confirm it, if
you want but shutting XP rebooting takes an age)
Matt: Note booting in Recovery mode and with old kernel also fails.
Tony
The other question is, what partitions do you keep on the software raid?
ureadahead doesn't like /var having it's own partition apparently.
I have *no* software raid that I know of! Yes /var does have its own
partition.
I can boot off the USB stick with Lucid 10.04 LTS on it, but I did not
install from it. This was a distribution upgrade using Update Manager.
The kernels shown by GRUB are
2.6.32.21
2.6.31.21
2.6.27.11
I can't boot from the first two. The last one boots to a log in prompt,
then freezes, but gives me a console session on tty1. It also boots in
recovery mode.
Tony
When that happened to me on my netbook, I tried
sudo apt-get update,
and it got me to a log in screen. I then had to do a rescue, which
actually worked. Dont know if that helps.
John
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[ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 1750 Problems
Hi i have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop, and installed Xubuntu on it. I have 2 problems: 1) I cannot get it to detect any wi-fi network connection. It has a Broadcom 4312 wi-fi adaptor. 2) I can find no way of disabling the intensely annoying touchpad. There is no option in the BIOS config, and even its original Windows 7 control panel had no option, either. Does anybody know where the Linux driver might be located, so I can disable it? Any suggestions on either point would be very much appreciated. Regards Nige -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 1750 Problems
On 4 May 2010 00:24, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi i have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop, and installed Xubuntu on it. I have 2 problems: 1) I cannot get it to detect any wi-fi network connection. It has a Broadcom 4312 wi-fi adaptor. 2) I can find no way of disabling the intensely annoying touchpad. There is no option in the BIOS config, and even its original Windows 7 control panel had no option, either. Does anybody know where the Linux driver might be located, so I can disable it? Any suggestions on either point would be very much appreciated. Regards Nige The trackpads on those laptops are hated by many, many people. Simple fix to kill the thing though: synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn it offf, and synclient TouchpadOff=0 to turn it on. These are command line arguments, and last time I checked you didn't need to be root. As for the wifi, are there any restricted drivers available to download on your machine (check in SystemAdministrationHardware Drivers menu), you may need to connect to the internet for this to work, use a LAN cable. But You might be OK without. try plugging a network cable in and running sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install bcmwl_kernel_source, it should fix it. Hope that helped. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting Design, Server Administration, Technical Support Computer Construction T. 01200438449 M. 07728574285 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 1750 Problems
On 4 May 2010 00:46, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 May 2010 00:24, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi i have just bought a Dell Inspiron 1750 laptop, and installed Xubuntu on it. I have 2 problems: 1) I cannot get it to detect any wi-fi network connection. It has a Broadcom 4312 wi-fi adaptor. 2) I can find no way of disabling the intensely annoying touchpad. There is no option in the BIOS config, and even its original Windows 7 control panel had no option, either. Does anybody know where the Linux driver might be located, so I can disable it? Any suggestions on either point would be very much appreciated. Regards Nige The trackpads on those laptops are hated by many, many people. Simple fix to kill the thing though: synclient TouchpadOff=1 to turn it offf, and synclient TouchpadOff=0 to turn it on. These are command line arguments, and last time I checked you didn't need to be root. As for the wifi, are there any restricted drivers available to download on your machine (check in SystemAdministrationHardware Drivers menu), you may need to connect to the internet for this to work, use a LAN cable. But You might be OK without. try plugging a network cable in and running sudo apt-get update and then sudo apt-get install bcmwl_kernel_source, it should fix it. Hope that helped. Ooh, sorry for a doublepost but I read Xubuntu. I don't know where the Hardware drivers option is, but I'm sure it will be around the Administration section on your menus. As far as I know, the name is standardised. -- Kris Douglas, NODE Computer Systems Web Hosting Design, Server Administration, Technical Support Computer Construction T. 01200438449 M. 07728574285 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
