I've pitched in; yes it's a lot of money and you have to wait til next year, but I have used Ubuntu for years, I want to support them and I view it as payback for the free operating system.
Not...
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I've pitched in; yes it's a lot of money and you have to wait til next year, but I have used Ubuntu for years, I want to support them and I view it as payback for the free operating system.
Not...
For info, I bought a 3G USB modem last week - Huawei E398 for my asus netbook running Ubuntu 12.04LTS.
Initially nothing recognised but lsusb showed it was there.
Disconnected home wifi and it all...
chrome 29
and to save you backpaging the scores on the doors so far:
Firefox 190
konq 1
IE 2 presumably bored at work
opera 67
Rekonq 9
shirra 1 -I had to look this up...
dolphin 1
sheptel, my 12.04 keeps my connections in
/etc/NetworkManager/system-connections
might be worth a check to see if your mobile broadband connection is saved there. Each connection has a file with...
Most computer savvy people have their browser/email/media player preferences and will change it accordingly. But you need a base standard with sufficient packages that do the basics for those who...
old_dog, sorry can't help with the software question but I just put my 12.04 on a thumb drive and it worked well installing from that. Lots of web assistance available on youtube/google.
Yak.
Yes I'd contribute because it's my OS of choice but I second the point about ironing out bugs and hardware compatibility. Get the basics right before playing with the desktop.
Yes I did get that you were talking about RAM, but take a look at this:
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/storage/display/ssd-vs-8gb_7.html
the conclusion from a test re more RAM or an SSD. The...
The Yak sits on you and is the new king...
The line:
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)
is a good start.
Try this page https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless_Setup
to see if the card is...
I'm running 12.04LTS on an AsusN10 netbook.
I kicked XP off and have run lucid lynx onward without any probs.
I have everything working including asus express gate and the fingerprint reader...
at that price it might make sense to wait and change to a SSD as they are getting cheaper by the month and speed things up that way.
Version:12.04
Maker:Asus
Model:N10
started by ditching XP and putting lucid lynx on whole drive.
Have moved on through upgrades to 12.04. Expressgate and fingerprint reader still work thanks to...
Have you looked in the software centre for a different sound system to try? or uninstall what you currently have and reinstall it??
Thank u soooo much, I have been tearing much hair out over this!!!!
The problem is that when I next have the issue I will have forgotten all about it....
Thank you, I had a problem with grub hanging at the Ubuntu logo screen.
By hitting CTRL-ALT-F2 I was able to login and edit the file with vi /etc/default/grub (gedit wouldn't work).
This alllowed...
ok, root as in root user. To protect your system a lot of changes can't be done by users but must be done by root (like an administrator). The Ubuntu instructions refer to the instruction sudo which...
re point 4 your wireless connection - have you downloaded the driver? and what are the instructions?
Have a look at this page:
http://mumble.sourceforge.net/Installing_Mumble
and use the instructions for Ubuntu.
Type them into terminal and see what happens - must admit I have had mixed success...
Followed link above https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint and it worked perfectly. Although it said in 11.10 you would have to use terminal, mine scanned in GUI.
This is my solution for the skype upside down webcam issue, which was worked out from this link:
techspalace.blogspot.com/2010/02/upside-down-web-cam-simple-fix.html
I have done this twice now,...
For Roman0 and 0x656b694d;
Charlespondos instructions do not include step 6 in Sqrt7744's original post.
Don't know if it would make any difference, and don't think I did it but I know I got...
Presume you are trying to log in at home, to your own router.
"but instead of showing the signal strength it just shows the lines glowing from the bottom to the top and back again"
that implies...
Thank you, I wouldn't have done this without help.
I couldn't work out where the splash.idx came from in the original instruction so I have included my step here in case it helps anyone else....