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How do I add SOLVED to this thread title, please?

Now I've found it - a small Ubuntu circle on the login box. Many thanks for your help.

Your instructions don't seem to work for me. After I log out I get a new log in screen which allows me to log in to UbuntU as Guest or to Kubuntu as myself. But I can't seem to find the list of...

I have installed Ubuntu 12.04 as my only OS on my Lenovo Z570 laptop and upgraded to 14.04. All was well until I clicked something in the top right menu list that looked interesting. When I...

Many thanks.
Here's the netinfo.txt file contents:



*************** info trace ****************



**** uname -a ****

When I run the script to create the netinfo.txt file which of the following conditions should the problematic computer be in:
1. Eth0 connected to the network. Wireless switched off.
2. Eth0...

OK, so here's the result of running the wireless script:



bill@Lenovo:~$ wget -N -t 5 -T 10 http://dl.dropbox.com/u/57264241/wireless_script && chmod +x wireless_script && ./wireless_script...

Thanks for the move Bucky Ball. I'll be more specific next time.

Output from frkill list is as follows:



bill@Lenovo:~$ rfkill list
0: ideapad_wlan: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
1: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no

I'm running 12.04 dual boot with Windows 7 on a Lenovo Z570 Laptop. Wireless connection was working fine until I recently turned off my Cisco Router and booted into Windows (router turned off to...

Problem solved.

It worked when I put in the printer IP address rather than the URI into the printer aplet.
Many thanks for your help.
Bill

Many thanks, Mark.

I could not find Resume Printers on the CUPS Admin pages so I tried the following from the terminal:
lpstat -a
sudo lpadmin -E -p printer_name
lpstat -p

That gave me...

I'm running 12.04. My HP Deskjet 3070 printer worked on my Lenovo Z570 laptop until today, but now I'm getting an error message that tells me the printer may not be connected. I have installed all...

Ubuntu 12.04 installed OK on my Lenovo Z570 laptop, but only with Unity 2D. How can I get Unity 3D to run on this machine? What further information do I need to provide here? I would think there...

Which DVD ripper in the Ubuntu Software Centre will let me select a segment of a video file on a DVD for ripping? I want to be able to specify the beginning and end points of the segment on a time...

I want to copy small segments of video from a DVD onto my PC then burn the segments to DVD-R for replay on a DVD player. The segments might be up to 20 minutes long, taken from selected areas of a...

If Ubuntu no longer has this file where does it store its monitor and screen settings? I could create a /etc/XII/xorg.conf file but I don't know what to put in it or how to make the computer use it!...

I am trying to run Xubuntu from liveCD on my aging Sony PCG-FX109K laptop (Pentium III, 256 RAM, 80 GB HDD, 1400x1050 screen). But Xubuntu cannot set up the screen resolution properly nor the...

Many thanks for all this helpful help. Now all I need to do is use some of it!

Thanks scouser73. I'll try the PPA.

The nickname was given to me and my brother when we were kids because we got red faces when we had been running about a lot in the local park!

Many thanks, DeMus. I await developments.
Bill

Why is LibreOffice not listed (as far as I can tell) in the Ubuntu Software Manager on 10.04?

Many thanks for the help. Problem solved. Updates installed.

I have Ubuntu 10.04 dual boot with XP on my desktop machine. Now, when I run Update Manager a few seconds into the update process I get the message:
Please insert the disk labelled: Lubuntu...

I have now restarted both machines, but when I use Places > Connect to Server in Ubuntu and select SSH and put in the laptop IP address I get the message 'Cannot display location "sftp:...