Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu logon screen bongos disppared

2013-05-20 Thread Mark Einon
On 18 May 2013 21:51, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 21:02 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: On 18 May 2013 20:58, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote: What had gone missing ( still is] though is the bongos on arrival at the login screen.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Einon
On 5 February 2013 08:58, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/02/13 23:03, Mark Einon wrote: Ok. So the device doesn't have a driver loaded, so it is a kernel issue... It knows it's a ralink device (PCI vendor ID 0x1814) but doesn't know what the device ID is. Can you please

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Einon
On 5 February 2013 10:51, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: I think the double dash in --nn is wrong, should be a single dash. Yep, sorry about that - my bad. -nn Show both textual and numeric ID's (names and numbers) lspci -nn 04.00.0 Network controller [0280]: Ralink corp.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Einon
On 5 February 2013 13:36, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/02/13 12:49, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I've given the machine a complete 12.10 reinstall from the USB stick, so as to start again without the ill effects of whatever I did previously, fixing which could have gone on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Einon
On 5 February 2013 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mark, Here we are. I can see what I did wrong: I screwed up r8169, which is the Ethernet driver, thinking it was maybe a rival wireless driver. Definitely my bad. uname -a linuc rowan-Compaq 3.5.0-23-generic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-05 Thread Mark Einon
On 5 February 2013 20:15, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: It worked! Yay! \o/ Now, we need some way of directing people away from all the erroneous Ubuntu Forums pages that also say [SOLVED] but don't work, like the one I followed, which was:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Einon
On 4 February 2013 13:41, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 04/02/13 13:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I already in effect tried that; when I ran the command 'unzip' on it, the machine renamed it sp58586.exe.ZIP and looked at it and said gar nicht, or words to that effect. I grabbed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Einon
On 4 February 2013 14:42, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/02/13 14:31, Mark Einon wrote: I'm really surprised that this driver is not supported in your kernel - what version do you have? (run '$ uname -a' on the command line to find out). I think it's been in since 3.0

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Einon
On 4 February 2013 16:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/02/13 15:59, Colin Law wrote: On 4 February 2013 15:48, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Now it has Ubuntu installed, it simply won't boot from the USB stick, no matter how much I juggle the boot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-04 Thread Mark Einon
On 4 February 2013 17:03, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Now I have the huge print-out from the terminal which was requested, having somehow managed to copy it from the terminal, paste it into a notepad file, copy that to the external hard drive, then from there to the Lenovo,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

2012-11-28 Thread Mark Einon
On 27 November 2012 23:47, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books in a form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read on it? Cheers, Doug. Hi Doug, There's Project Gutenberg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saving history in the terminal

2012-10-31 Thread Mark Einon
On 31 October 2012 11:10, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 31 October 2012 11:06, scoundrel50agmail scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/10/12 18:25, scoundrel50agmail wrote: How can I get the history to save in the terminal. Everytime I use it, it keeps the history of that window,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saving history in the terminal

2012-10-31 Thread Mark Einon
On 31 October 2012 11:20, scoundrel50agmail scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: No I didnt see anybodys reply.in the window that is open, if you hit the up down arrows you can see what you have typed in in that window..you close it its gone..havent checked ~/.bash_history entered it into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saving history in the terminal

2012-10-31 Thread Mark Einon
On 31 October 2012 11:53, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 31/10/12 12:39, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012, at 11:34 AM, scoundrel50agmail wrote: Yippee that worked, thank you so much, now I found another problem, I cant use aptitude it says aptitude not found, do I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saving history in the terminal

2012-10-21 Thread Mark Einon
On 21 October 2012 18:25, scoundrel50agmail scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: How can I get the history to save in the terminal. Everytime I use it, it keeps the history of that window, but when I close it, its gone. I think you need to be more specific in order for me to understand your problem.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - Pre-installed Linux machine vendors

2012-10-13 Thread Mark Einon
Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! I'm looking at the inevitable replacement of my 4 year old Toshiba Satellite laptop in the near future and am looking at purchasing a laptop pre-installed. I'm having grave difficulties finding any vendors in the UK other than Linux Emporium