9.10 daily live

2009-11-08 Thread Slawek Drabot
What happenned to the daily live CD? http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/ seems to be stuck on 2009-10-28 was hoping to get a CD with the latest bug fixes -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-08 Thread Slawek Drabot
Hard locking the DNS config to OpenDNS has worked like a charm. So far some dozen connections without fail. Thanks! --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dave Hall wrote: > From: Dave Hall > Subject: Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762 > To: "Slawek Drabot" > Cc: ubun

RE: Wi-Fi availability

2009-11-05 Thread Slawek Drabot
://bc.whirlpool.net.au/bc/?action=search&exc=1&state=vic&class=2&type=res&cost=50&pre=3000&conntype=6&speed=512&upspeed=0&contract=99&needhw=yes&upfront=99 --- On Thu, 11/5/09, Dave Hall wrote: > From: Dave Hall > Subject: RE: Wi-Fi availability &

Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-03 Thread Slawek Drabot
That explains annoyance 1. Can you suggest tools to manually check/enable DNS to circumvent annoyance 2? --- On Tue, 11/3/09, Dave Hall wrote: > From: Dave Hall > Subject: Re: Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762 > To: "Slawek Drabot" > Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubun

Mobile broadband connection 9.10 Huawei E1762

2009-11-02 Thread Slawek Drabot
I have exetel mobile broadband using Huawei E1762 modem on 9.10. A couple of issues: 1. On a clean boot with the modem plugged in, 9.10 does not recognise the modem. It recognises the storage part of the modem, but not the modem itself. Solution is to remove the modem and plug it in again, but i

RE: Karmic Koala 64-Bit: Black screen on re-boot after install

2009-11-02 Thread Slawek Drabot
I had a similar problem after doing an upgrade from 9.04 (very disappointing results!) Solution was to disable the previously installed graphics driver and then install new version: http://ubuntuguide.net/how-to-fix-screen-mess-after-upgrade-to-ubuntu-910karmic -- ubuntu-au mailing li

recovering data from a dead hard disk

2009-03-01 Thread Slawek Drabot
I have PATA HDD that is showing no signs of life: does not appear in any /dev device listing whether plugged in through USB adapter or directly through the IDE interface. Any way to get access to stored data? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

mknbi

2008-12-20 Thread Slawek Drabot
the man mknbi states: "If you are looking to boot using PXE, look no further, mknbi is not what you want. You probably want something like PXELINUX which is part of the SYSLINUX package." has anyone used this command to create pxe bootable images? should I "look no further" or "nbi is not what

Re: Linux Servers for Infrastructure

2008-07-05 Thread Slawek Drabot
I'm trying to PXE boot a thin client that has a Vortex86SX processor (no math co processor or fpu) Error message: This kernel requires the following features not present on the CPU: 0:0 Unable to boot - please use a kernel appropriate for your CPU. any insights into the error code "0:0"? I'm gu

Ubuntu upgrades

2008-07-01 Thread Slawek Drabot
all this talk of downloads has reminded me of something: how do you deal with downloading upgrades for multiple installs? I have Ubuntu on 2 machines, and it seems a waste to download the same upgrades twice. What strategies do people use to avoid this situation? -- ubuntu-au mailing

Re: On Bugs and Linux Quality

2008-06-25 Thread Slawek Drabot
Daniel Morrison: "I have had similiar experiences to what you describe but surely this is what free software is all about! Choice. If you are concerned about stability and showstopper bugs, choose Debian, RHEL, etc. If you are concerned about bleeding edge functionality and hardware suppor

Re: On Bugs and Linux Quality

2008-06-22 Thread Slawek Drabot
I enjoyed this debate. Based on the observations made, what do people here see as the biggest pros and cons of using Linux, and specifically Ubuntu in a commercial, corporate environment? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: DHCPD3 "No subnet declaration for eth0 (0.0.0.0)" - SOLVED

2008-06-21 Thread Slawek Drabot
"I dont see an 'auto eth0' line here. does it come up? kk" you got it: it wasn't. Didn't like the gateway address. Mind you, that was no where near the error message I received from ifup wouldn't it be nice to have an error message from DHCPD to the effect of: DHCPD failed as eth0 is not up. et

DHCPD3 "No subnet declaration for eth0 (0.0.0.0)"

2008-06-21 Thread Slawek Drabot
set up a DHCPD on Ubuntu 8.04 and all was working well until I rebooted. Now DHCPD does not come up and above error is found in /var/log/daemon.log files: - /etc/default/dhcp3-server # Defaults for dhcp initscript # sourced by /etc/init.d/dhcp

noatime automount

2008-06-12 Thread Slawek Drabot
I like your idea of setting the noatime mount option and I was looking to set that for all my automounted USB disks, problem is, cannot find the location for setting automount preferences. I'm using 8.04 and notice there is no autofs process and my initial investigation points to gnome preferenc

MythTV - program guide info

2008-06-05 Thread Slawek Drabot
Those of you who use MythTV, what script/process do you use to download program guide information? I'm using a script I found more than 1 year ago that attempts to use yahoo guide data. Unfortunately it is incomplete in terms of the channels for which it has guides and sometimes it is incorrect