Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canon PIXMA iP2500 error codes

2010-06-10 Thread Wulfy
On 09/06/10 08:35, Colin Law wrote: For my ip4300 this information is in the manual, which is provided on CD as an installable windows package, not as paper. Luckily it installs and runs happily in Wine on Ubuntu. Or at least it did until I just went to open it to see what 7 flashes means on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canon PIXMA iP2500 error codes

2010-06-10 Thread Wulfy
On 09/06/10 15:28, Jack Cheesman wrote: For Pixma ip3600: From onscreen manual: Seven Flashes: Ink tank is not installed in the correct position. Some ink tanks are not installed in the correct position. (The lamps on the ink tanks flash.) More than one ink tanks of the

[ubuntu-uk] Canon PIXMA iP2500 error codes

2010-06-08 Thread Wulfy
I recently changed the ink cartridge on my printer (Canon PIXMA iP2500) and now it won't print. I just get flashing lights. There are two lights, one is the power switch light, the other has symbols I can't interpret (one may be stuck paper, the other is a triangle pointing down in a circle).

[ubuntu-uk] Printer monitor needs older libs

2010-02-17 Thread Wulfy
I wanted to check on the ink levels in my Canon PIXMA iP2500 printer. However, when I ran the monitor, it complained that a library couldn't be found. I ran ldd on the program and got this output ( I used the `which..` command because I don't know where the monitor lives): wu...@wulfy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-14 Thread Wulfy
Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/7/11 Wulfy wulfm...@tiscali.co.uk: Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/7/11 Wulfy wulfm...@tiscali.co.uk: I tried to do that but with a 32-bit WinXP guest. The problem is that VirtualBox wouldn't pass the USB through, even though I'd downloaded

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-14 Thread Wulfy
Neil Greenwood wrote: OK, I wasn't clear enough in my statement. You can only change the settings for the VM when the VM isn't running or suspended IIRC. So, when WinXP is running in the VM, you need to choose the Machine Close menu option, then choose Power Off in the screen that shows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-11 Thread Wulfy
Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/7/11 Wulfy wulfm...@tiscali.co.uk: I tried to do that but with a 32-bit WinXP guest. The problem is that VirtualBox wouldn't pass the USB through, even though I'd downloaded the version that's supposed to do that. Did you install the guest additions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 10/07/09 00:02, Wulfy wrote: My printer died so I bought a new one. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2500. My Kubuntu Jaunty set-up recognises the printer and correctly identifies it, but it refuses to talk to it. Requesting a test page causes the lights to flash

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 10/07/09 13:16, Wulfy wrote: snip / Thanks, Alan. I had seen that page but it's for the i386 version of Ubuntu. I don't really want to downgrade my architecture just to get the printer going... :@( Once again, thanks for responding. No problem. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
Tony Pursell wrote: On 10 Jul 2009 at 0:02, Wulfy wrote: My printer died so I bought a new one. It's a Canon PIXMA iP2500. My Kubuntu Jaunty set-up recognises the printer and correctly identifies it, but it refuses to talk to it. Requesting a test page causes the lights to flash

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-10 Thread Wulfy
danattwood wrote: Wulfy wrote: One of the thing I tried was to install the PPD file. It complained that the driver was needed. I even tried to compile the source (not something I usually get into) but that kept failing, too... :@( I think perhaps that if I installed the 32-bit version

[ubuntu-uk] Printer problems

2009-07-09 Thread Wulfy
ideas how to get this printer running or is it a paper-weight? wu...@wulfy-desktop:~$ uname -a Linux wulfy-desktop 2.6.28-13-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jun 30 22:12:12 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bbc listen again anomaly

2009-05-28 Thread Wulfy
alan c wrote: A particular example is the michael bentine show for example http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bv2gw/episodes/player Hmmm... when I clicked on the program to play, the player window popped up and then FF crashed... :@( Kubuntu Jaunty, FF 3.0.10 -- Blessings Wulfmann

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can somebody help with manual command

2009-02-20 Thread Wulfy
John wrote: I'm not sure that's the correct subject line, but I mistakenly stopped a terminal whilst it was still doing something. Now I get this message --- E: dpkg was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-07 Thread Wulfy
Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wulfy wrote: I removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-06 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox and start from scratch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-05 Thread Wulfy
John Levin wrote: Wulfy wrote: I was having problems with Firefox-3.0 crashing so I thought I'd remove it and re-install Firefox-2. This did not go well... So, after removing all the add-ons (which didn't go) and still having problems I decided to purge everything to do with Firefox

[ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-04 Thread Wulfy
removed my .mozilla directory in /home/wulfy. Nothing in /etc, /usr/bin, /usr/lib or /usr/share. I reinstall Firefox... I click on Tools/add-ons.. and there is a list of all the add-ons I used to have waiting to be uninstalled when I restart Firefox... sigh Where is Firefox hiding the data

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-04 Thread Wulfy
Jason Liquorish wrote: Wulfy wrote: Did you try sudo apt-get purge Firefox before installing Firefox 2? Or in synaptic marking Firefox as Mark for Complete Removal that should remove pretty much every trace of Firefox. I must say for a while I was running Firefox 2 and 3 side by side

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-04 Thread Wulfy
Dark Otter wrote: It's a long-shot, but might they be in /usr/lib/firefox? There are a couple of folders /usr/lib/firefox, /usr/lib/firefox-3.0 etc. on my computer. I looked in /usr/lib for anything to do with FF... I even looked in /usr/lib32... all gone. I'm baffled. -- Blessings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines

2008-06-17 Thread Wulfy
Chris Rowson wrote: Interesting in the newest computer games but can't run them because you're on Linux? Stream My Game now allows for a Windows gaming PC to stream it's output and accept input from a Linux based PC. Basically, this means you can set up a headless Windows box on your home

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit Kubuntu and Speedtouch modem

2008-06-12 Thread Wulfy
Matt Darcy wrote: Moving the scripts is a fine way to keep your config, will the modem work, well that will depend on the compatability of the modem with the driver supplied in the later kernel on 8.04 and how stable that newer driver is in 64bit. If the driver is a native driver in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit Kubuntu and Speedtouch modem

2008-06-12 Thread Wulfy
Matt Darcy wrote: No one is laughing here is your problem though sudo cp speedtch.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/atm/ sudo chown root:root /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.ko sudo chmod 644

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit Kubuntu and Speedtouch modem

2008-06-12 Thread Wulfy
Matt Darcy wrote: No one is laughing here is your problem though sudo cp speedtch.ko /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/atm/ sudo chown root:root /lib/modules/2.6.22-14-generic/kernel/drivers/usb/atm/speedtch.ko sudo chmod 644

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit Kubuntu and Speedtouch modem

2008-06-12 Thread Wulfy
Neil Greenwood wrote: 2008/6/12 Wulfy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] sigh I'm wondering if it might be better to get something that runs through my ethernet card rather than this. Much better, in my opinion. That's what I did a couple of years ago. Cost me £70 and soon saved me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread Wulfy
Jason Liquorish wrote: Am I missing what you are trying to say here or am I right in you are looking for links to the rest of the Ubuntu family on the main page of the site? If so look down the bottom right, they are all there for me. They appear on the Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu sites

Re: [ubuntu-uk] special characters for french in ubuntu and open-office

2008-03-30 Thread Wulfy
Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wulfy wrote: | Try pressing AltGR; e which should give é. If it does, the other | accents are on the punctuation keys around the right end of the keyboard. This does not work for me and hasn't in the 4 years or so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] special characters for french in ubuntu and open-office

2008-03-29 Thread Wulfy
James Grabham wrote: OK, I'm writing a piece of coursework for french, and I can insert â, é etc by going in open-office insert special character, but this is a bit irritating when you need to keep doing it. Is there a way to make a keyboard shorcut for special characters? Thanks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ballmer screws over Nigerian schoolkids

2007-11-02 Thread Wulfy
Mark Harrison wrote: Chris, Sorry, but I am offended by the choice of language like Ballmer screws over Nigerian schoolkids. Are you actually accusing Ballmer of sexual exploitation of vulnerable people? Or are you saying that selling Western products to African nations is the moral

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy, first reports!

2007-10-20 Thread Wulfy
norman wrote: Which e-mail client? Which browser? Evolution Mail and Firefox. This has never happened before to me in Ubuntu. Norman Ah. I use Thunderbird and Firefox on Kubuntu... it's a config thing there: [Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Config editor]

[ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-12 Thread Wulfy
I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to the plain Ubuntu... I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@) -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] package removal.

2007-10-10 Thread Wulfy
norman wrote: However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed reappear all by itself? Norman If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg would reinstall it as a (reverse) dependency... -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach

Re: [ubuntu-uk] package removal.

2007-10-10 Thread Wulfy
Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:35 +0100, Wulfy wrote: norman wrote: However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed reappear all by itself? Norman If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg would reinstall

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

2007-10-09 Thread Wulfy
in uploading our results. (If you haven't got it already, just : sudo apt-get install vrms, then run vrms. Please append your results to the list below: andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages. Regards, Andy wulfy - 30 non-free packages, 1.8% of 1681

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Couple of questions...

2007-09-01 Thread Wulfy
Kirrus wrote: 2) Wine and Launchers I've installed a program called BibleWorks 4.0, using Wine. It seems to be working, but I can't create a shortcut to it. Here's the problem: It's accessible at: /home/rick/.wine/drive_c/Program Files/BibleWorks 4.0/bworks95.exe If I open the terminal,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Wulfy
TheVeech wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 09:51 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ It was only a matter of slime. Nope. It's a flash in the pan... :@) -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 6.06.1 newbie

2007-03-23 Thread Wulfy
Sean Sims wrote: Hi, I have installed ubuntu 6.06.1 on my laptop after the HDD went pear shaped and i had to reformat. trying linux on it, but have played about with it very basically a couple of years age, my problem is that on installing ubuntu it does not ask for a password for root,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thinking about switching to linux

2007-03-05 Thread Wulfy
Roberto Sarrionandia wrote: On Sunday 04 March 2007 21:53:17 Benjamin Webb wrote: So, I've got a hardware firewall in my router, so I shouldn't need a software one. What about anti-virus software though? Is there any software that scans for Linux viruses, or do they all just check for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband connection with Eclipse

2007-03-05 Thread Wulfy
Robin Menneer wrote: On 3/5/07, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do you know what the make and model of the 'black box' is? Yes. It's labelled Speed Touch 330 made by Thomson Telecom. Try this: http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html It worked for me and I have