Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ...

2011-05-04 Thread Barry Titterton
On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 15:47 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there ... At last night's ubuntu-adverts meeting, I arranged an > experimental survey for research. I hope some of you can consider > helping with it. > > First, find one or more willing volunteers from among friends. > Volunteers need

[ubuntu-uk] Users needed for masters project

2011-05-04 Thread Chris Wilson
Hey all, I've just started the project for my MSc course in Applied Computing and am in need of some guinea pigs to help design and test it. I'm going to be working on it between now and Monday 12th September, when my thesis is to be submitted, and I'm going to be using the user-centred design [1]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ask Mark session

2011-05-04 Thread alan c
On 04/05/11 18:32, Terence Simpson wrote: On 4 May 2011 18:29, alan c wrote: Unfortunately I had a medical appointment, so I could not join in. I notice there is no log, never mind. I trust it went well? http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/05/04/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t15:02 Thanks! -- ala

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ask Mark session

2011-05-04 Thread Terence Simpson
On 4 May 2011 18:29, alan c wrote: > > Unfortunately I had a medical appointment, so I could not join in. > I notice there is no log, never mind. > I trust it went well? http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2011/05/04/%23ubuntu-classroom.html#t15:02 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ask Mark session

2011-05-04 Thread alan c
On 04/05/11 14:40, Alan Pope wrote: Hi, in ~20 mins there's an 'Ask Mark Shuttleworth' session in Ubuntu Open Week. Jump on IRC and pose your questions to Mark in #ubuntu-classroom-chat and watch the answers in #ubuntu-classroom on freenode irc. All the details at the below links. https://wiki

[ubuntu-uk] Ask Mark session

2011-05-04 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, in ~20 mins there's an 'Ask Mark Shuttleworth' session in Ubuntu Open Week. Jump on IRC and pose your questions to Mark in #ubuntu-classroom-chat and watch the answers in #ubuntu-classroom on freenode irc. All the details at the below links. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek https://wik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Mark Fraser
On Wednesday 04 May 2011 13:08:35 Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 14:51:49 +0300, Dave Rice wrote: > > OK, > > > > here are some links that I found useful! > > > > The method I used, admittedly it was on a Maverick based distro, was > > to update the kernel from here: > > > > http://ke

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Wed, 4 May 2011 14:51:49 +0300, Dave Rice wrote: OK, here are some links that I found useful! The method I used, admittedly it was on a Maverick based distro, was to update the kernel from here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ [14] and the install the samsung-wireless packag

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Dave Rice
OK, here are some links that I found useful! The method I used, admittedly it was on a Maverick based distro, was to update the kernel from here: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/ and the install the samsung-wireless package from here: https://launchpad.net/~voria/+archive/ppa on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Les Pounder
I have an N130, I ran 11.04 (fresh install) for about a day, WIFI was really patchy out of the box, so I installed the voria ppa.n Unfortunately still really patchy WIFI. I've reverted back to 10.04, using the Voria PPA and everything is back to normal. Les On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Dave

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Dave Rice
Trouble is, I tried that on a fresh install on a n210 and it didn't work! I'll write down the steps I did in a minute and post it here once I’ve found all the links cheers On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 1:57 PM, Alan Pope wrote: > On 4 May 2011 11:52, Jon Reynolds wrote: > > On Wed, 4 May 2011 10

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 May 2011 11:52, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 10:44:02 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: >> >> http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10487458&postcount=34 >> >> Looks like that solves it. >> >> Al. > > Hmm, I have already tried that procedure. This is what worries me, I have > tried multipl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Wed, 4 May 2011 10:44:02 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10487458&postcount=34 Looks like that solves it. Al. Hmm, I have already tried that procedure. This is what worries me, I have tried multiple solutions and wonder if they are all now conflicting with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 May 2011 10:38, Jon Reynolds wrote: > Would an upgrade turn WiFi off in the bios?? If not then it shouldn't be > off, as I have been using this netbook for a few years now with wifi with > Ubuntu and XP. > > BTW WiFi is still working when I boot into XP. > http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.ph

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Wed, 4 May 2011 10:30:46 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: The "wifi" light often doubles as a bluetooth light on laptops / netbooks.  Have you checked that the WiFi is enabled in the bios of the machine, perhaps disabling bluetooth as well to see if the light still comes on.  Thank you -- John

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread John Stevenson
On 4 May 2011 09:54, Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Wed, 4 May 2011 09:38:29 +0100, Yorvyk wrote: > > On some notebooks/laptops there is a function key that enables WiFi. >> I've found with upgrades that this sets it's self to disable the WiFi, >> but doesn't with a clean install. >> >> -- >> Steve Co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required

2011-05-04 Thread Avi Greenbury
Colin Law wrote: Not arguing one way or the other but I suspect that if an upgrade that requires a reboot is performed, but the reboot is delayed, that the security hole may well likely not be plugged till the reboot is performed. Well, the holes in the kernel wont be plugged until the next reb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Wed, 4 May 2011 09:38:29 +0100, Yorvyk wrote: On some notebooks/laptops there is a function key that enables WiFi. I've found with upgrades that this sets it's self to disable the WiFi, but doesn't with a clean install. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net There is a Fn + option fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Yorvyk
On Wed, 04 May 2011 07:53:35 +0100 Jon Reynolds wrote: > On Tue, 3 May 2011 23:15:00 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > > Sorry about the double post but I'm going to quote the section. It's > > a pain on a mobile. > > > > " pci wireless devices > > ***

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required

2011-05-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 May 2011 03:10, Matt Wheeler wrote: > As I've mentioned before on the ayatana list I think this would do more harm > than good. As others have already said, just about everything bar Mozilla > stuff will continue to work fine if it's left running, and warning people > that a particular upgrad