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when you do the command `lspci` in a terminal window, does it say you have a broadcom controller? (If so, what ID?)

i.e.

lspci | grep -i network

For instance mine says:

THIS WORKED WITH MY BCM4311

okay - I found my old notes... I'm positive some of this is not really required but I don't have the time or energy to pare it down... suffice to say that after doing...

Well....

When I click System... Administration... Hardware Drivers I get a dialogue that informs me that the Broadcom STA wireless driver is "activated but not currently in use". (It goes on to...

Just as the title says... I got a Canon PowerShot (A1000 IS) and it's not talking to Ubuntu. (8.04... not upgrading this laptop until/unless I know I won't have any problems...)

If I power it on,...

I don't even get to GDM login... I get the text login only...

I thought there was a program called xconfig or something to reconfigure the x setup but I can't find it... help?

Yep that works -- I have to drop all details levels to the minimum, but it works :)

AranelSurion -

Thanks, that seems to be working! (I'll know for sure once it finishes downloading resources, but so far so good!)

I tried this, but I just get a coredump :(

~/regnum$ ./rolauncher
*** glibc detected *** ./rolauncher: free(): invalid pointer: 0x08666dd0 ***
======= Backtrace: =========...

sdrawkcab,

it sorta looks like you missed these steps:



sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`

Paperdielsel,

Thanks!!!! I've spent days trying to get my HP Compaq Presario V6000 with Broadcom Dell Wireless 1390 to work, and your post is the one that finally helped me get it done the right...

okay, so it's an ancient (contextually anyway) thread, and I see that most of the original posts are not much more than snarkiness and trolling, but seriously -- more widespread adoption is important...

PS - I've tried qdvdauthor too, and it shows the same "waiting for mpeg2enc" line in the progress window, and stalls, saying 4% complete, under the "processing images" progress-bar.

I'm not sure where you folks have gotten with this....

I noticed that dvs-slideshow 7.2 was in the standard distribution-ring (universe, maybe?) Not sure how to tell what branch it is, but...

(You know you're getting old when a "What was your first OS" poll doesn't have any of your first 3 OSes included in the options! :)

Sinclair ZX80 (with the 16K expansion... uh.. dongle?)
Apple...

Thanks, I guess I should have posted that little tidbit too!

Silly me - of course this can be made slightly easier for those that aren't comfortable in a terminal window, and/or don't know their way around the command line... instead of worrying about the 'cd'...

There's probably a way to remove the 'recent documents' menu item from the Places menu, but I haven't found it yet. :D

Instead, I offer a way to disable it:

For starters, empty the recent...