touchpad not working

2010-09-07 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I'm at work at the moment using an Acer Aspire 1410 netbook with Ubuntu 10.04. I just noticed the touchpad not working here but it does under win 7. Currently am using a usb mouse. It used to work fine and I'm not sure when exactly it stopped working as I tend to use the usb mouse for

optus usage details

2010-09-06 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Just wondering how do I go about reading my wireless internet usage from ubuntu (10.04). I've tried in the past and got some message that it can only be done from the parent page. And that's following the links at optuszoo. So far I have to boot to windows when I want to check the

Re: Ubuntu - never again - please read.

2010-09-04 Thread James Takac
Hi Basil On Sunday 05 September 2010 00:45:47 Basil Chupin wrote: On 03/09/2010 23:26, Mark Hill wrote: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, Once only have I actually had Ubuntu install cleanly and run (dual boot with Win XP). The Ubuntu version was from memory, 8.04 and not a serious contender to

Re: Ubuntu - never again - please read

2010-09-04 Thread James Takac
Hi Terry On Sunday 05 September 2010 13:48:51 Terry Brock wrote: I use ubuntu on both of my computers and except for normal hicups I have found it to work every time I think that whoever started this thread has not give th OS and the community a fair go Terry Likewise I have 6 pc's with

8.04 to 10.04 dist upgrade

2010-08-28 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys 2 of my systems still have 8.04 on them and I see via the update manager the option of a dist upgrade to 10.04. I'm familiar with the usual incremental upgrade and was wondering if the upgrade straight from 8.04 to 10.04 is viable? I know it won't be without risk even if it is. But if

Re: Keyboard issues

2010-08-08 Thread James Takac
Hi Boden On Sunday 08 August 2010 19:01:26 Boden Matthews wrote: This laptop is way out if warranty. It's an ex-business laptop, and as a result as seen quite a few hard years. Parts of every key have gone smooth from the all the typing. Regards, Boden Matthews Sent from my iPhone On

Re: wifi for ubuntu

2010-07-10 Thread James Takac
Hi On Sunday 11 July 2010 08:05:37 Paul Gear wrote: On 10/07/10 18:59, Chris Rosenhain wrote: Hi there, You might like to look towards Internode for free hotspots: https://hotspot.internode.on.net/coverage/index.php Just use the guest login button :) And if you do that, you'll

Re: Ubuntu-based malware

2009-12-14 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Monday 14 December 2009 07:38:02 Paul Gear wrote: Just a quick follow-up from our previous discussions about viruses on Linux. This is why we still need to be careful: * http://digitizor.com/2009/12/10/ubuntu-malware-for-ddos-attack-found-in-scr eensaver/ *

Re: connecting to the internet

2009-10-04 Thread James Takac
Hi Jessie On Sunday 04 October 2009 19:27:21 dopey dora wrote: I do recommend that people having problems to ask as no way would I have been able figure out all that Scott helped me with. Thank you to all the others who replied too. Regards Jessie Exactly. There's no shame in asking if

wireless woes was ( PSK recovery? )

2009-09-10 Thread James Takac
Hi Dale On Thursday 10 September 2009 13:37:31 Dale wrote: Hi James, Can you log into the wireless router and got to the password page and the right click and view the source. You should then find the PSK key in plain text in the source page. Regards Dale 2009/9/10 James Takac p3nndra

Re: wireless problem

2009-05-15 Thread James Takac
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:58:22 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: ... Those are good suggestions. James, can you post the output of the ip commands you used before from another (working) machine? (Use ipconfig /all and netstat -rn instead if it's a Windows system.) ... I

Re: wireless problem

2009-05-03 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Monday 04 May 2009 10:45:20 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I seem to have an interesting wireless problem with one of my laptops. It's an Asus F3SC and until recently the wireless connection was working fine. Right now it shows as connected via wireless going

Re: wireless problem

2009-05-03 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Monday 04 May 2009 11:57:24 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: ... ip route ls gives 169.254.0.0/16 dev eth0 scope link metric 1000 10.0.0.0/8 dev eth0 proto kernel scope link src 10.1.1.4 10.0.0.0/8 dev wlan0 proto kernel scope link src 10.1.1.9 default via

Re: wireless problem

2009-05-03 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Monday 04 May 2009 15:06:06 Paul Gear wrote: Scott Evans wrote: Hi... Are you getting your routes from DHCP or are they set statically? Also confirm your settings from one of the other PC's that you have working on your network. Is there a conflict with IP numbers?

Re: installing 8.04 on sata drives prob

2009-04-02 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Thursday 02 April 2009 14:05:42 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I'm having probs installing ubuntu (32 bit) on a friends pc. Have loaned one of mine till I sort this out. Both live and alternate cds pass the integrity check yet both throw up read errors during

Re: installing 8.04 on sata drives prob

2009-04-02 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Friday 03 April 2009 06:57:26 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: ... Check that the BIOS setting is AHCI on the SATA drives. It sounds like it's in ATA emulation mode. Paul The Bios seems to have a Compatibility mode and an Enhanced mode re the ide ports which

installing 8.04 on sata drives prob

2009-04-01 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I'm having probs installing ubuntu (32 bit) on a friends pc. Have loaned one of mine till I sort this out. Both live and alternate cds pass the integrity check yet both throw up read errors during the install phase. Both HDD and DVD drive are sata and bios shows them both on the same

live vs alt install cd

2009-03-31 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Just wondering if there's a simple way to tell what systems might need the alternate cd to install as opposed to the live cd. I'm trying to install on a friends (hardy) which has a celeron and both hdd and optical drives are sata. The install cd is fine though it keeps throwing up

ethernet Q

2009-03-16 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection is now seen as eth1 instead of eth0 and on various reboots ubuntu is not seeing it at all. I suspect it has something to do with the new assigment

Re: ethernet Q

2009-03-16 Thread James Takac
Hi Junin On Tuesday 17 March 2009 12:53:04 Junin Toiro wrote: On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 12:55 PM, James Takac p3nndra...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I had a motherboard blow on a computer a few weeks back and finally got the system rebuilt with a new mobo. However the ethernet connection

Re: dsl-g604t port forwarding (static ip help)

2009-03-15 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Sunday 15 March 2009 10:56:14 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I'm having problems getting the port forwarding to word on said modem. I have the main pc hooked up via the ethernet port directly and my others are wireless. I understand that I need to set up static

Re: dsl-g604t port forwarding (static ip help) [RESOLVED]

2009-03-15 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Sunday 15 March 2009 10:56:14 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I'm having problems getting the port forwarding to word on said modem. I have the main pc hooked up via the ethernet port directly and my others are wireless. I understand that I need to set up static

Re: dsl-g604t port forwarding (static ip help)

2009-03-15 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Sunday 15 March 2009 17:52:52 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: ... Thx for the prompt reply. I understand that much and am in the process of going thru that using ifconfig to get the mac address of each of my systems. i'd assume to use the wlan0 mac address for those

dsl-g604t port forwarding (static ip help)

2009-03-14 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I'm having problems getting the port forwarding to word on said modem. I have the main pc hooked up via the ethernet port directly and my others are wireless. I understand that I need to set up static ip's for port forwarding to work but that's where I'm running into problems. Already

Re: dsl-g604t port forwarding (static ip help)

2009-03-14 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Sunday 15 March 2009 10:56:14 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I'm having problems getting the port forwarding to word on said modem. I have the main pc hooked up via the ethernet port directly and my others are wireless. I understand that I need to set up static

Re: this mornings updates

2009-01-16 Thread James Takac
Hi Lisa On Thursday 15 January 2009 19:50:36 Lisa Milne wrote: Oh well, I'll just have to see what's up with my system then, at least it's at work so I get paid to fix it. thanks all On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 15:58 +1100, David Ryder wrote: OK here ..David On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 09:44

Re: NVidia driver problem

2008-10-25 Thread James Takac
Hi On Wednesday 22 October 2008 10:21:24 Dodge wrote: G'day All, I recently upgraded to Hardy Heron, and all appeared to go as expected. I uninstalled the video driver (NVIDIA binary X.org) and installed what seemed to be a more appropriate driver, NVIDIA binary X.org (new driver). When I

Re: cannot install

2008-09-22 Thread James Takac
Hi Neville On Monday 22 September 2008 13:13:32 Nev wrote: Hello Melissa my name is Neville and I am having a lot of trouble installing Ubuntu 8.04 on this computer I have it on another one and would like it on this one I am running Windows xp pro I keep getting a message Busybox

kmail warning

2008-08-29 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys on Ubuntu (7.10) using kmail I have suddenly started getting the following error The IP address of the host pop.mail.yahoo.co.uk does not match the one the certificate was issued to. Anyone know how to get rid of this as I get it every day. Earlier never used to get it and I've not

Re: 7.10 and recovery from riceeey script (eee pc)

2008-08-20 Thread James Takac
Hi Callan On Wednesday 20 August 2008 22:29:19 Callan Jefferson Davies wrote: Am wondering if it's possible to undo the effects of the riceeey script. Basically it trashed my ability to log onto the network but I can go back to the previous kernel and go

7.10 and recovery from riceeey script (eee pc)

2008-08-19 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Am wondering if it's possible to undo the effects of the riceeey script. Basically it trashed my ability to log onto the network but I can go back to the previous kernel and go from there to go online James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: How to load korganizer at boot up?!?

2008-08-15 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys On Friday 15 August 2008 19:55:30 Sebastian Spiess wrote: Peter Williams wrote: Hi All, I've been running Linux Ubuntu all years, and then some. However, I've only been running Kubuntu for a few months. Basically, the more I use it, the more I like it. ;-)) My question is

Re: grub on usb?

2008-08-07 Thread James Takac
Hi Derek On Thursday 07 August 2008 22:16:24 Derek Broughton wrote: James Takac wrote: I find myself in an interesting spot at the moment. I have an eee pc which I was dual booting 2 ubuntu's. one on the default drive and one on a 16 gig usb drive. I reinstalled the default Xandros

iding usb drive for grub reinstall

2008-08-07 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I'm trying to use a live cd to reinstall grub on a usb drive on which Ubuntu resides to allow it to boot on eee pc. How do I find the drive assignment as it's recognised by the live cd so I know where to install grub? James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

grub on usb?

2008-08-06 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I find myself in an interesting spot at the moment. I have an eee pc which I was dual booting 2 ubuntu's. one on the default drive and one on a 16 gig usb drive. I reinstalled the default Xandros on the original drive and it seems there's no grub on the usb drive so I'm looking for

ubuntu laptops

2008-07-19 Thread James Takac
Hey guys I have a friend looking for a new laptop and they may be interested in one that is bundled with ubuntu, any suggestions would be appreciated James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: ubuntu laptops

2008-07-19 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Saturday 19 July 2008 17:06:54 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hey guys I have a friend looking for a new laptop and they may be interested in one that is bundled with ubuntu, any suggestions would be appreciated It doesn't come bundled with Ubuntu, but my Dell Latitude

workspace behaviour

2008-07-01 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Been noticing something interesting on one of my ubuntu pc's. It's the only one on 24/7. Basically if left alone for some time it switches workspaces by itself. It did it this morning as I watched. No intervention from me. Is this meant to be a feature or some oddity on my end? James

Re: HELP

2008-06-24 Thread James Takac
Hi Charmaine On Tuesday 24 June 2008 20:56:22 Mark Charmaine wrote: hello there i have one of those computers and have no idea how to use it could you please email me the info to [EMAIL PROTECTED] which company does support the computer as we tried to get the internet on it and they say

eee pc wireless died after latest update

2008-06-20 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Just did the latest upgrade on my epc and lost wireless capability. Worked fine in gutsy before the update though. I was using the ndiswrapper. Just checked to see if a new kernel has been installed and it has, i.e. 2.6.22.15. Works fine when booting into previous kernel so my Q is

ubuntu and d-link dsl-g604t speed probs

2008-06-17 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Just trying to cover all my bases on this one. Currently the modem is up and running but am experiencing speed probs, i.e. dialup speed on a broadband connection. Dowload speed is supposed to be 1.5 mips but obviously am not getting that for any more than a few min once the modem is

Re: ubuntu and d-link dsl-g604t speed probs

2008-06-17 Thread James Takac
Hi Junin On Tuesday 17 June 2008 23:39:52 Junin Toiro wrote: On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:46 PM, James Takac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys Just trying to cover all my bases on this one. Currently the modem is up and running but am experiencing speed probs, i.e. dialup speed

Eee PC keyboard

2008-06-03 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I seem to have 2 dead keys on my keyboard on the Eee PC. They are the tilde key next to the esc key and the key with the pipe character above the enter key. I'm gathering this is likely a prob with the keyboard layout. The device manager on gutsy lists the keyboard as an IBM Enhanced

Eee PC os install advice

2008-06-03 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Currently I have gutsy on both the internal 4gig drive and on a 16gig flash drive. I'm looking at scrubbing gutsy from the internal and installing something else as I mainly boot from the flash drive at the moment. I'm guessing that will require some changes to my grub file on my part

hardy and synaptic prob

2008-05-10 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys I just did a distribution upgrade on one of my pc's from gutsy to hardy and all seemed to be fine until I tried to start synaptic package manager. I can't seem to get it going at all either from the menu or via terminal typing gksu synaptic if I type synaptic on its own it runs but I

re: hardy and synaptic prob

2008-05-10 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys A slight update on this as well. Also tried using apt-get, e.g. sudo apt-get install webhttrack and got the following error sudo: unable to resolve host p3nn-desktop James -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: hardy and synaptic prob Date: Sunday 11 May 2008 From: James

Re: Errors trying to upgrade from GG to HH Ubuntu.

2008-05-10 Thread James Takac
On Sunday 11 May 2008 06:48:30 Daniel Mons wrote: ==Sebastian Spiess wrote: I did a clean install and everything went smooth but when I started installing all the stuff missing I had problems with the AU mirror as well. I ended up switching quite often, but this could have

powertop sd card q

2008-04-06 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys On the eee pc I used powertop to try and save a little power. I noticed the various things I was doing via powertop only seemed to last the current session so thought nothing of disabling the reading of the sd card. Now it wont read the sd card at all. Anyone know how I might reenable

Re: linksys help needed

2008-04-05 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul On Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:12:32 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I'm trying to set up my wireless router without any luck to speak of as yet. The router is a linksys WRT54G and the modem a netgear DM111P. Double-check that the Linksys is not using the same

Re: linksys help needed

2008-04-04 Thread James Takac
Hi Paul Linksys router is at 192.168.1.1 netgear is at192.168.0.1 To me that seems quite different or is there another way I should check? James On Wednesday 02 April 2008 18:12:32 Paul Gear wrote: James Takac wrote: Hi Guys I'm trying to set up my wireless router without

printer software

2008-02-12 Thread James Takac
Hi Guys Am wondering if there's some software equivalent of fineprint for ubuntu. Basically it allows one to print so you can fit up to 8 pages per side of paper, as booklets, etc James -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Router/hub Q

2008-02-06 Thread James Takac
Hi Junin On Wednesday 06 February 2008 11:28:59 Junin Toiro wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 10:23 AM, James Takac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys I'm experiencing some probs with my netgear router. That is I assume the router is the prob. Basically I can access the net from any computer

Re: Local support

2008-01-23 Thread James Takac
On Thursday 24 January 2008 09:57:11 Tony Addis wrote: I am a wannabe new user based on the Gold Coast. I have been using Open Office, Firefox and Thunderbird on MS for some years and have decided to migrate to Ubuntu. I have loaded 7.10 (which looks great) on my computer but need help on

Re: Fw: Dual Booting -Toggle between O/Systems

2008-01-04 Thread James Takac
On Saturday 05 January 2008 06:43:20 Frode Egeland wrote: 1. How to create a toggle? On the fly? You need to make your Ubuntu a virtual machine that runs inside Windows. Otherwise, you will need to reboot, which is not 'on the fly' at all.. 2. Share or access data files seamlessly

Re: Re Bigpond Ubuntu Repository: Fwd: [Ticket #63088] BigPond Download Problem

2008-01-02 Thread James Takac
Why not forward Williams response back to bigpond and see what they say? ;) On Thursday 03 January 2008 11:10:28 Blindraven wrote: I was thinking the same. Their excuse was a big fat cop-out. On Jan 3, 2008 11:57 AM, William Grant [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Whyte wrote: FYI below is

Re: Dual boot. XP U7.1

2007-12-30 Thread James Takac
On Monday 31 December 2007 14:30:14 The Wassermans wrote: I have downloaded Ubuntu 7.1 (Desktop). I burned it to a CD. I want to install it on a PC running Win XP. The Xp installation was partitioned 50/50 Problems: 1. The 7.1 CD does not boot. 2. I don't know how to install a dual