Re: Share with the community your gutsy install/upgrade experience
1.)
I sorted out the fact that every new installation or upgrade has trouble activating wireless by writing a wee script of ifconfig and iwconfig and route commands and saving it as /etc/init.d/network.
The script is here,
<quote>
#! /bin/bash -x
# /etc/init.d/network Wireless configuration script
iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
iwconfig wlan0 managed
ifconfig wlan0 up
ifconfig wlan0 netmask 255.255.255.0
route add default gw 192.168.1.1
exit 0
</quote>
or whatever works for your system
You can edit it to use the appropriate commands for your system. You can try the commands in the terminal (as root/sudo) to see what your system needs.
To make it load on bootup, I placed a symbolic link in /etc/rcS.d:
CODE:
ed@ubuntu:~$ sudo ln -s /etc/init.d/network /etc/rcS.d/S81network
/CODE
(the S81 prefix means it will be loaded near the end of the boot process after miscellaneous scripts - see Debian rules)
2.)
Blank screen problems sorted by giving it the video driver it needed. ("intel" in my case)
The lines below may be of significance
<quote># /etc/X11/xorg.conf (xorg X Window System server configuration file)
#
# This file was generated by dexconf, the Debian X Configuration tool, using
# values from the debconf database.
#
# Edit this file with caution, and see the xorg.conf(5) manual page.
# (Type "man xorg.conf" at the shell prompt.)
#
# This file is automatically updated on xserver-xorg package upgrades *only*
# if it has not been modified since the last upgrade of the xserver-xorg
# package.
#
# If you have edited this file but would like it to be automatically updated
# again, run the following command:
# sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
</quote>
Each new user of a new system uncovers a new class of bugs.
-- Kernighan
Salaam/Shalom/Shanthi/Dorood/Peace
Namaste -ed
Last edited by tipiglen; October 29th, 2007 at 01:16 PM.
Reason: typo in command line for symbolic link
Asus 1005HA CPU:N280 HDD:160G RAM:2G Ubuntu 10.04 and/or Mint 9
Also have decrepit Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 1845 [now half-bricked by upgrade ]
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