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    Re: Ubuntu 14.04 SSH server issue

    I have the same problem with crouton on a chromebook. Apparently the utmp error messages are normal. As far as I can tell job management doesn't work at all in crouton, but you can start sshd with:...
  2. [ubuntu] __git_ps1 command not found (git-core ppa)

    I'm currently using the git-core ppa [1,2] to get the latest version of git. With the latest upgrade, however, I think a few things fell out of the package... Specifically PS1-related stuff has been...
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    [SOLVED] Re: Skype menu and popup text.

    Thank you!!! That has been bugging me for a few weeks...

    For google:
    Skype no text, skype buttons no text, ubuntu 10.04 skype no text
  4. [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

    Oh man, that sounds like fun! I'm afraid I honestly have no idea, but my instincts agree with yours. It would be interesting to see what kernel configuration messed with the ethernet driver...
  5. [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

    Interesting... I have the exact same ethernet controller and it's all working for me in Lynx without driver-compiling fun... I can't comment on the wifi chipset...
  6. [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

    This issue hasn't existed for me since about kernel 2.30 ish, but I guess if you're trying to compile the drivers it's because it's not working for you... What laptop/ethernet chipset is it?
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    [ubuntu] Re: Acer Aspire 5739G no WiFi/WLAN

    I can confirm that 2.6.31-17 works! Oh happy day. My crontab still looks like this just in case there are still issues with the battery indicator widget not updating itself:



    # m h dom mon dow...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Acer Aspire 5739G no WiFi/WLAN

    Well that's no fun at all. In case I was misleading in my earlier post, recompiling the kernel wasn't *that* bad. The instructions on the site I linked to are well written and easy to follow and it...
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    [SOLVED] Re: tar error

    Are you sure the file actually exists at that location? Post the output of ls /root. You might have downloaded the tar to your user home directory, logged in as root, and then tried to reference the...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Acer Aspire 5739G no WiFi/WLAN

    Looks like there was something being done. I just compiled the latest ubuntu kernel (2.6.31-16.51 at the time of this posting) and everything (wifi, wired, acpi, etc.) worked great! It's nice to not...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Acer Aspire 5739G no WiFi/WLAN

    First of all, welcome to Ubuntu. Second, I got my fingerprint scanner using fingerprint GUI.

    Installation directions:

    Download the latest fingerprint GUI tarball (I'm using 0.12) (direct...
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    [ubuntu] Re: Acer Aspire 5739G no WiFi/WLAN

    I can vouch for the disabling acpi method. I (not surprisingly) had the same issue on my 5739g and it (not surprisingly) worked for me too.

    The problem with disabling acpi is that, well, you don't...
  13. [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

    After setting acpi=off in grub2 everything just worked (i.e. I didn't need to compile drivers)... It "fixed" the wifi too...
  14. [SOLVED] Re: Acer Aspire 1410 / 1810T Ethernet LAN does not work

    Has anyone tried this in 9.10? When I try to compile the driver I get the following errors:


    mgalgs@cobalgz:~/src/atheros/src$ make
    make -C /lib/modules/2.6.31-14-generic/build...
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    Re: recv behaving strangely in Ubuntu

    It never fails that whenever I post to the forums after struggling with something for hours upon hours, I solve my own problem within a few minutes of my posting. :-)

    If you ask me, this is really...
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    recv behaving strangely in Ubuntu

    So I'm getting some weird behavior with the recv function in C (berkeley sockets). It isn't blocking like it "should" be. It's behaving as though I had OR'd MSG_DONTWAIT into the flags on the call to...
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    Re: Installing SPICE

    Anyone trying to install ngspice should check out this guide and this thread
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    Re: [SOLVED] virtualbox shared folders....?

    mount -t vboxsf share mount_point
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    [ubuntu] Re: Firefox starts in fullscreen mode

    Same problem here with Intrepid and Firefox 3.0.4. Fixed with sirebral's fix:



    (note that you must do this while firefox isn't running for it to work because it writes that file on exit!)
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    Re: gprof - no time accumulated

    I know this post is quite old but I'm posting anyways in case anyone runs into this page searching.

    I don't have a solution to your problem either, but (perhaps) an explanation.
    gprof measures...
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    Re: Post your scripts?

    Here's a nasty little one just to facilitate connecting to a wireless network from the terminal. (Note: there is currently no support for encryption...Sad, I know but that's all I needed it for.)
    ...
  22. [ubuntu] Re: shared library dependencies error...ldconfig experts?

    Okay I figured it out and I feel quite silly about what the problem was! If anyone has the same problem here's what I did.
    My problem was that I was source'ing a file in my .bashrc that was...
  23. [ubuntu] Re: shared library dependencies error...ldconfig experts?

    Hmmm, the problem is that I didn't compile anything. It's almost as if the xilinx installer made ldconfig look at the libstdc++.so.6 in my home directory rather than the regular one. I just need to...
  24. [ubuntu] [SOLVED] shared library dependencies error...ldconfig experts?

    So after installing the xilinx ise webpack ldconfig is pointing to the wrong libstdc++.so.6 shared library. This is giving me errors when I try to run programs that need this shared library. For...
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