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Hi,
I've got an Asus graphics card, working fine on Ubuntu 9.10. Only prob is the fan is very loud. I can use Asus smartdoctor in windows to slow down the fan. is there any similar programme for...

hi,
I fixed the problem, turned off fancy desktop effects. right click on desktop, change desktop background. visual preferences.

Hi,
just done a reinstall of ubuntu 8.1. I've installed the various medibuntu packages and vlc media player. When i try to play a dvd in totem or vlc the film will play but flashes rapidly. I've...

is there no other way out of this, would rather not reinstall,
Thanks

I've had the same experience, upon reboot mine now says
wired network
device is unmanaged
wireless network
wireless is disabled

any tips

hi,
i just installed some updates and now the network connections icon gives different options. It gives the option
"Wireless Network (Dell BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
Wireless is disabled"

the...

thanks for that. it should be quite helpful.

thanks for that,
I added those lines to the interface file. It now reads
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

Hi thanks for that
I removed the -e in both the blacklist file, and the interface file.
the commands you gave earlier are working now without a warning line coming up. however the iwlist scan...

hi, thanks for that,
I'm not sure how to edit that file or how it should be changed, thanks

Thanks for that, here's the post:

-e auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

Hi folks,
i'm trying to convert a friend who plans to buy a new laptop, to ubuntu. he doesn't want any fiddling with it himself, and am wondering is anyone selling laptops with ubuntu or other...

Hi,
thanks for that. Unfortunately it didn't work, but it may have got to the crux of the problem with this blacklist on line 48. any tips on how to fix that?
here's the output from the terminal,...

Hi,
can't get my broadcom wireless card to work after installing ubuntu 8.1.
In System>Administration>Hardware Drivers I have two options: Broadcom B43 Wireless driver, which it says is activated...

Thanks, I found this problem very annoying. But changing output to video X11 worked perfect

hi,
thanks for suggestions. I tried
sudo modprobe b43
but with no success.


not sure is this useful information, but when i re-enable the b43-fwcutter driver the following prompt comes up:...

i go to system>administration>hardware drivers
it has enabled ticked, and says "not in use"
so i click on the enabled box, and disable the driver.
then click on it again, which enables it.
and...

hi, here's the network controller from lspci
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01)

but the wireless card is working, it's just i need to enable it to...

thanks
i tried the commands in that order again, but got the same result
this is copied from the terminal

lorcan@lorcan-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
lorcan@lorcan-laptop:~$ sudo...

here is the response to the commands you suggested
sudo ndiswrapper -l
sudo: ndiswrapper: command not found

sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
gives no response for me. I rebooted computer and...

thanks for responses. i've used so many different ways to try to make the broadcom work that I actually don't know whether the ndiswrapper method or something else ended up making it work. I think...

Hello,
I used the forums to install a driver for my broadcom 43 wireless card, and finally got it to work, thanks.
However, the driver doesn't initialise from the boot process. I need to go to...