I called Asus and they can sell a Recovery DVD for God knows how much. They also cannot or will not provide me with my Windows 8 product key saying I need to contact Microsoft for the key. I...
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I called Asus and they can sell a Recovery DVD for God knows how much. They also cannot or will not provide me with my Windows 8 product key saying I need to contact Microsoft for the key. I...
Okay, I did the boot-info from the live-cd and the info is at http://paste.ubuntu.com/5835093
I'm not sure where the UEFI is located. I did upload a picture of the files in the Recovery Partition that I am trying to use to make an install disk for Windows 8.
I can assure you when I said Windows 8 didn't survive-the whole install is gone. I tried all of the above and tried the Windows utilities, etc, etc. I will have to try copying the contents of the...
After disabling fastboot, secureboot, and other nefarious bs in the bios of my Asus k55a I managed to get Ubuntu 12.04 installed. However Windows 8 didn't survive the process. I originally wanted to...
Hey Atakua, were you successful getting the wimax to work? It appears that linuxwimax.org is down. Any help would be appreciated
Could you post a quick howto via command line to install wimax-tools, etc?
I am also trying to use the wimax side of the 6250.
1. what I did was disable wireless in Network Manager
2. ran code: 'sudo wimaxd -i wmx0' it returned: 'sudo: wimaxd: command not found'
Any...
Hey fsm_apostle I just purchased the same machine from Clear. Could you do a quick write up for getting the wimax up in Ubuntu? I have followed the thread to get the wifi up and could use some help...
Hey Colin,
The kernel that I compiled for the l505d is it compatiable with Ubuntu packages? Can you install stuff like Pidgin and Libdvd for dvd playback? I tried installing that stuff and got...
Hey Colin, I took your advice and re-installed 9.10 and followed the instructions and am now up and running. I will search this thread to see if there's a way to keep the kernel from automatically...
root@kathy-desktop:~# apt-get install kernel-package libncurses5-dev fakeroot wget bzip2
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done...
Hey Colin,
I tried the wget command and here is the output:
root@kathy-desktop:/usr/src/linux# wget patch -p1 < ~/Desktop/bug14679_copy_dsdt.patch
wget: invalid option -- '1'
Usage: wget...
Hey Colin
I did the apt-get update and installed that kernel-package stuff successfully and then tried the post #71 procedure again and got this output:
root@kathy-desktop:~# wget...
I did not see those commands-I am running those now and will go through the instructions again. Yes I do have the patch file on the Desktop
I tried the instructions for the 10.4 on a friend's new L505d-s5983 and got the following output:
kathy@kathy-desktop:/usr/src/linux$ cp /boot/config-`uname -r` ./.config
cp: cannot create...
Then we need to get a copy of your current DSDT and save it in your home folder with this command Code:
sudo cat /proc/acpi/dsdt > dsdt.dat
I ran this command and it returned:
sudo cat...
Hey Bob, I have the Satellite L505D-S5983 and when I added the 'acpi=off' between the 'ro' and 'quiet' I was able to get to the password screen but the keyboard didn't work to type in the password. ...
I am getting a wine error right after downloading the small client.
I am running Ubuntu 9.10 64bit on a HP Tx1220us
error as follows:
Archive: ...
were you able to successfully downgrade to grub legacy? I followed all the instructions on downgrading and still am having grub 2 boot.
i still haven't been able to add a bootable entry into grub 2 as I can't get grub 2 to stop and give me a menu or a chance to write down the error I'm seeing flashed briefly before it boots the...
I have Ubuntu 9.10 AMD 64 installed on my tx1220us I previously had Fedora 12 on the /dev/sda2 booting from the root partition (my boot partition was formatted ext4-Fedora12 livecd doesn't recognize...