WiFi USB dongles?

2007-05-23 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
A friend of mine was given a used laptop. I've installed Ubuntu 7.04 on it. It works pretty well, but I have a problem with USB WiFi dongles. The laptop had built in WiFi and CARDBUS (PCMCIA) slots, but both no longer work due to a hardware catastrophe. I've tried the following, because they are

Re: Fwd: "spontaneous" umount

2007-05-23 Thread Vassilii Khachaturov
Did you try disabling supermount to see if the problem goes away? Vassilii = To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Fwd: "spontaneous" umount

2007-05-23 Thread Shlomo Solomon
OK - no war, but I don't intend to change a excelent distro just because of one missing tool. And BTW, this is a home machine and not a server. On Wednesday 23 May 2007 15:19, Noam Meltzer wrote: > Well... No intentions to start a holy-distro-war, but I think that this can > be a good reason to m

Re: Configuring Hebrew keyboard in KDE desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On Wednesday May 23 2007, You wrote: > I simpy don't use KDE's configuration because of that, and use this combo: > a. install kkbswitch, an alternative kde keyboard switcher > http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/ > > b. simply add to .bashrc on my account: > setxkbmap us,il -option grp:alt_shift_togg

Re: Configuring Hebrew keyboard in KDE desktop

2007-05-23 Thread Dvir Volk
I simpy don't use KDE's configuration because of that, and use this combo: a. install kkbswitch, an alternative kde keyboard switcher http://kkbswitch.sourceforge.net/ b. simply add to .bashrc on my account: setxkbmap us,il -option grp:alt_shift_toggle kkbswitch On 5/22/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Fwd: "spontaneous" umount

2007-05-23 Thread Noam Meltzer
Well... No intentions to start a holy-distro-war, but I think that this can be a good reason to move your server to a better distro. like CentOS5 if you're you're looking for an enterprise OS, of (k)ubuntu 7.04 if you're looking for something more dynamic. (ubuntu 6.06 LTS does not provide systemt