Well, This is a bit of a rant I'm afraid... need to vent.
What gives with wireless? Why is it such an
issue for Ubuntu? 'Almost' every time I perform an apt-get upgrade or in
this case, a distribution upgrade, my wireless breaks! I'm getting
really fed up of it.
Now I don't want to be seen
On 03/05/11 11:26, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Well, This is a bit of a rant I'm afraid... need to vent.
What gives with wireless? Why is it such an
issue for Ubuntu? 'Almost' every time I perform an apt-get upgrade or
in this case, a distribution upgrade, my wireless breaks! I'm getting
really fed
Hi Guys,
I know I don't post here very often but I have to pop my two penneth in
here, in saying I feel for you both!
I recently have been trying to get others to put Ubuntu onto their netbooks
(various) and am getting increasingly frustrated with the state of wifi in
Ubuntu.
Other distros seem
>> Its a Realtek.
>>
> do lsusb in a terminal and let us know the full line that relates to
> your wireless device.
> Is this built in to some kind of laptop? Which model? If it is a
> certified model or the same wireless device is in a certified model then
> put that in the bug report.
> So far t
Hi -- a few other people have seen this, so I thought I'd post the links
here, for anyone interested.
* https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/774089
*
http://pubmem.wordpress.com/2011/04/09/flash-efi-firmware-update-manually-on-a-macbook-51/
The second article looks like the answer. Unfortunately
Paul Sutton wrote:
surely a tool can be written for the gui that does this job. There are
tools that handle ping, traceroute, nslookup, whois etc in a small
application, so why not one for lsusb, lspci etc
it just needs a tabbed gui that can allow 1 button to be pressed the
results displayed in
On Tue, 03 May 2011 11:44:37 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 03/05/11 11:26, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Well, This is a bit of a rant I'm afraid... need to vent.
What gives with wireless? Why is it such an
issue for Ubuntu? 'Almost' every time I perform an apt-get upgrade or
in this case, a distribution
On Tue, 3 May 2011 14:12:26 +0300, Dave Rice wrote:
Hi Guys,
I know I don't post here very often but I have to pop my two penneth
in here, in saying I feel for you both!
I recently have been trying to get others to put Ubuntu onto their
netbooks (various) and am getting increasingly frustrated
On 03/05/11 13:04, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Besides, I don't buy this thing about Windows users being scared of
the command line. When I was doing Windows (admittedly XP) desktop
support about 80% of my calls started 'press Start+R; now enter CMD'.
Even with Windows 7, there's still a fair bi
When installing Ubuntu inside a VM (VMWare or VirtualBox) what
keyboard do I need to select for a MacBook Pro with a UK Keyboards.
On the mac I need to type alt+3 for a # to appear. But I can't work
out what keyboard combination I need to enter when using Ubuntu within
a Virtual Machine.
I've tri
The short version of this email is:
Has anyone got the wifi working on an HP Mini 2133 with Ubuntu 11.04?
The longer version with more detail is:
I've just upgraded to 11.04 on my HP Mini 2133 netbook. It has been running
earlier Ubuntu versions fine bar a few initial issues and a quirkiness wit
On 3 May 2011 13:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 03/05/11 13:04, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>
> Besides, I don't buy this thing about Windows users being scared of the
> command line. When I was doing Windows (admittedly XP) desktop support about
> 80% of my calls started 'press Start+R; now enter
On Tue, 3 May 2011, John Patrick wrote:
> On the mac I need to type alt+3 for a # to appear
Try using Shift-3 or the key labelled '\'.
Do either of those work?
-Paul
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On 3 May 2011 15:05, Paul Sladen wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2011, John Patrick wrote:
>> On the mac I need to type alt+3 for a # to appear
>
> Try using Shift-3 or the key labelled '\'.
>
> Do either of those work?
>
> -Paul
>
>
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On Tue, 03 May 2011 13:03:03 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
I will run that diagnostic script to get the same results.
Thanks.
The output of that script...no signs of wireless devices:
[code]
Version: 1.1 (Development)
Mon May 2 21:33:17 B
Isn't there a wireless device under PCI devices? Seems to me there's a
Realtek card.
On May 3, 2011 9:28 PM, "Jon Reynolds" wrote:
> On Tue, 03 May 2011 13:03:03 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
>>
>> I will run that diagnostic script to get the same results.
>>
>> Thanks.
>
> The output of that scrip
Sorry about the double post but I'm going to quote the section. It's a pain
on a mobile.
" pci wireless devices
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8192E
Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8192]
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 upgrade will require a reboot is likely to put some of
t
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
02:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconduct
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