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Hi! Can you help me get the WWAN driver to appear under 10.04 on my Vaio P?

(Note: There are several other threads on similar topics, but so far as I can tell they're referring to different...

Alas, tried this to no effect. I have Sony Vaio P VPCP118KX running 10.04. The Verizon Broadband works flawlessly when it works at all, but the device only appears after I boot into Windows 7 and...

Hi! I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 and I'm getting some errors installing Premailer; can you offer any tips? Premailer is here:

http://github.com/alexdunae/premailer/

I tried following the...

Thanks for the link, but I don't see anything in the documentation that indicates how to do this. Searching around a bit more I see that it might be configurable via dbus (but I'm not really sure...

I have a Sony TZ270N running Ubuntu 10.04 splendidly. The Sprint Mobile Broadband works great, but it's a bit cumbersome to activate. Specifically, to get it to work I need to:

echo 0 >...

Does anyone else have any feedback on this? I'm also thinking of getting a P, and I'd like to install 10.04 on it. (I currently run 8.04 on a Sony TZ.) Suspend is pretty important, however, and...

Has anyone successfully configured any computer with any EVDO modem on any variant of Ubuntu to work with any Thai EVDO carrier?

I'm taking my Sony-TZ270N on vacation there in a couple weeks, and...

What do the settings in /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpuidle mean? I was just poking around and saw some odd values that made me wonder if my CPU was never going into its highest-performance mode. ...

Aha! Turns out the real solution is this:

1) Create a file /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d containing:

#!/bin/sh
exit 101

2) chmod +x /usr/sbin/policy-rc.d

After that, packages will install...

Yes, they do start after installation, and that's the problem: I don't want them to start right away. Rather, I want them to start up for the first time when the machine boots. I want to install...

Well, that will let me stop it from starting on future boots, but that's not quite what I'm looking to do.

Rather, I *do* want it to start on future boots. I just don't want it to start...

Is there any way to "apt-get install ssh" without having it automatically start sshd? Same for "lighttpd".

Basically, I'm making great progress in my bootable QEMU image script, but when I chroot...

(Sorry if this question has already been answered; this is a huge thread and I might have missed it.)

Is there any way to use UNetbootin to install Ubuntu 8.04 in a completely unattended manner by...

zvacet -- Do you mean by pressing F4 and choosing "Install a command-line system" from the first boot menu? If so, thanks for the tip! I hadn't noticed that there before. I'm installing it right...

Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, I'm aware it'll need the password to be entered at the console at each boot (a necessary evil). That's fine in my case as I have a bunch of servers and none will...

Digging into this a bit more, I *think* it has something to do with the trackpad -- like perhaps I'm tapping it or something. I haven't quite nailed it down.

What's the best way to install a completely bare-bones server with full-drive encryption (aka, "encrypted LVM")?

In the past I've used the alternate install CD for a desktop system with full-drive...

Is anyone else experiencing a sporadic issue where the terminal becomes temporarily non-responsive? The mouse continues working and the keyboard works fine with other applications during the hang.
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