Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On Nov 14, 2007 11:50 PM, Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time remaining isn't an exact science.. it's just an estimate based on > certain values. So depending on how it's reported.. the numbers will vary > from app to app... and it also depends on what you are doing on the computer. Th

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Kingsly John
+++ Gautam John [2007-11-14 23:10:39]: > Also, the Gnome Power Manager and the Applet give me conflicting > charge remaining time. What do I follow? Time remaining isn't an exact science.. it's just an estimate based on certain values. So depending on how it's reported.. the numbers will vary fro

[ubuntu-in] Suspend (was Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate)

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
I'm sorry to be bothering all of you this much but my happiness with the Suspend feature just got a dose of reality. If I keep it in suspend mode for extended periods of time, say over an hour, it refuses to wake up. I get 'Linux' in yellow written near the top left, in text mode, and the only way

Re: [ubuntu-in] Newbie. Hello!

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On Nov 14, 2007 7:49 PM, Shibu C Varughese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportMachinesLaptopsIBM > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch I looked at those. The trouble is these dang keys don't seem to generate a keycode. I even used xbindkeys-co

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On Nov 14, 2007 6:21 PM, Kingsly John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have the panel applet for batteries installed? I am using the Gnome Power Manager and also the Battery Charge Monitor. > When the battery is fully charged the battery icon changes from charging to > fully charged.. and whe

Re: [ubuntu-in] Newbie. Hello!

2007-11-14 Thread Shibu C Varughese
On 11/13/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just an update: > > I bought the Lenovo below: > > > 2. Lenovo 3000 G400 > > > http://www-604.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?storeId=1356&catalogId=-356&langId=356&categoryId=4611686018425111790&seriesid=4611686018425154

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Kingsly John
+++ Gautam John [2007-11-14 15:03:38]: > I'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 and the power manager seems a > little wonky. It does not seem to allow me to set up notifications for > when I have low battery or when the battery is charged. It does warn > me when the battery is below 20% (or mayb

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Vishal Rao
On Nov 14, 2007 5:37 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Got it to work using these instructions: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff I'm not sure about suspend/hibernate... but my wireless connection was not reconnecting after reboot, so I had to

[ubuntu-in] Lenovo 3000 G400

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
On Nov 14, 2007 4:01 PM, Gaurav Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Agh , Just bought this machine few days back Did you figure out how to configure the two button at the top right of the keyboard? The custom one and the "Novo" button? I can't even get a keycode from them... And does the batter

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
Got it to work using these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Feisty_No-Fluff Thank you for the pointer. Looks like the ndis method works best! On Nov 14, 2007 4:38 PM, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where did you get the INF file from? The driver c

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
Ah! That worked! But xbatt gives me the following error: xbatt: cannot open /proc/apm On Nov 14, 2007 3:46 PM, Shibu C Varughese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/14/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks shibu. I get this error: > > > > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lo

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
Where did you get the INF file from? The driver cd only has vista drivers and that does not have such file.. On 11/14/07, Gaurav Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/14/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 with a Broadcom Corporation > > BCM943

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Rajiv
- Original Message > From: Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Ubuntu India Local Community > Sent: Wednesday, 14 November, 2007 2:57:21 PM > Subject: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate > > 'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 with a Broadcom Corporation > BCM9

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Jayanth S
> > Agh , Just bought this machine few days back and installed broadcom > drivers from a through ndiswrapper, works fine here. Search on > ubuntuforums.org for the tool > > The Wiff toggle works fine too, > > Basically, i'm the only one with a still unresolved WIFI issue! I'm using an Acer 4520 w

Re: [ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Gaurav Mishra
On 11/14/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 with a Broadcom Corporation > BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) and using the wireless driver > installed via the restricted driver management. It works fine except > for when I wake from suspend/hibernate

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Shibu C Varughese
On 11/14/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks shibu. I get this error: > > E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource > temporarily unavailable) > E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is > another process using it? > > > On Nov 14, 2007

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
Thanks shibu. I get this error: E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it? On Nov 14, 2007 3:17 PM, Shibu C Varughese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/14

Re: [ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Shibu C Varughese
On 11/14/07, Gautam John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 and the power manager seems a > little wonky. It does not seem to allow me to set up notifications for > when I have low battery or when the battery is charged. It does warn > me when the battery is belo

[ubuntu-in] Battery Management

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
I'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 and the power manager seems a little wonky. It does not seem to allow me to set up notifications for when I have low battery or when the battery is charged. It does warn me when the battery is below 20% (or maybe 30%) but nothing else. Is there a way to setu

[ubuntu-in] Wireless Connection on Suspend or Hibernate

2007-11-14 Thread Gautam John
'm running Gutsy on a Lenovo 3000 G400 with a Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) and using the wireless driver installed via the restricted driver management. It works fine except for when I wake from suspend/hibernate. The nm-applet purports that I am connected to the network