| brecar921 | how do I get to hardware drivers in 11.10? | 01:04 |
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| jalcine | brecar921: what kind of drivers? | 01:06 |
| jalcine | !jockey | 01:06 |
| ubot2` | Factoid 'jockey' not found | 01:06 |
| brecar921 | wireless adapter | 01:06 |
| jalcine | I meant to say, drivers for what kind of hardware? | 01:06 |
| brecar921 | for a netgear wireless adapter | 01:07 |
| jalcine | Hmm, you know the device name? Like rt3920? | 01:09 |
| brecar921 | On this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNR0Wvg1k5I the guy shows how to set up a NetGear wireless adapter using a driver by Broadcom ( bcmwl-kernel-source) which I have installed but it does not self-activate like it does for the guy in the video. he started to go to preferences > hardware drivers when it looked like it was not going to work. Since mine is not working I want to try that but it looks like he is | 01:13 |
| brecar921 | the device name is WNA3100 | 01:13 |
| brecar921 | still here | 01:16 |
| brecar921 | jalcine: any ideas? | 01:30 |
| jalcine | No, I'm sorry, I was actually checking if there were sources for your drivers, but I'm not sure if there is. | 01:31 |
| brecar921 | according to the guy in the video, the broadcom drivers work just fine. | 01:32 |
| brecar921 | how do I get to hardware drivers in 11.10? | 01:32 |
| jalcine | Jockey should install drivers for you. | 01:34 |
| jalcine | BUT there is a solution. | 01:34 |
| jalcine | Do you have drivers for the application for Windows? | 01:34 |
| jalcine | !ndiswrapper | 01:34 |
| ubot2` | Wireless documentation, including how-to guides and troubleshooting information, can be found at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs | 01:34 |
| jalcine | !info ndiswrapper | 01:34 |
| * jalcine thinks that's the package name. | 01:34 | |
| jalcine | Yes, I think that link would have it. | 01:34 |
| brecar921 | yes, i have the cd | 01:35 |
| jalcine | But you can use drivers for Windows designed for wireless drivers using NDIS. | 01:35 |
| brecar921 | i read on some sites that often times that performs poorly. i would rather try it the way the guy did it in the video | 01:36 |
| brecar921 | in the video the guy went to preferences > hardware drivers.....why can I just do that in 11.10?? | 01:36 |
| jalcine | I'm not sure, and NDIS hasn't failed me when I needed drivers. | 01:39 |
| jalcine | The only deficit might be that it runs the device as generically as possible, so eccentric/special features of the device might not be available. | 01:39 |
| jalcine | It's an option known to work and is supported. | 01:40 |
| brecar921 | I do not need any of the eccentric features | 01:40 |
| jalcine | Chances are that that guy in the video is running an older version of Ubuntu. | 01:40 |
| brecar921 | yea, that is what i said at the very beginning... | 01:40 |
| jalcine | (couldn't view it b/c his 'net connection is like 80Kb/s) | 01:40 |
| brecar921 | oh, sorry | 01:40 |
| brecar921 | hmmm | 01:41 |
| brecar921 | how do i get to ndis? | 01:41 |
| jalcine | Install ndisgtk on your system. | 01:41 |
| jalcine | The application should become visible after installing within Dash. | 01:42 |
| brecar921 | OK, i will try it out | 01:42 |
| brecar921 | new question | 01:42 |
| brecar921 | somehow i set my keyboard up so that the single and double quote marks do not work properly | 01:42 |
| * jalcine readies himself :) | 01:42 | |
| brecar921 | how can I reset? | 01:43 |
| brecar921 | :) | 01:43 |
| jalcine | Hm, that's out of my domain of knowledge. :$ | 01:43 |
| jalcine | Sounds like a Keyboard Layout issue, though. | 01:43 |
| brecar921 | allright, i will work on that later | 01:45 |
| brecar921 | new question | 01:45 |
| brecar921 | ready? | 01:45 |
| jalcine | Heh, keep them coming | 01:46 |
| brecar921 | i tried to enable the firewall and it would not accept the rule that i set up; now, any new web connection I try to establish does not work. I went back and disabled the firewall - at least it that is what it looked like I did....the streaming music I have going and this chat does not work, but any new connections still do not work. how to fix? | 01:48 |
| brecar921 | sorry, meant to say: the streaming music I have going and this chat DOES work | 01:50 |
| jalcine | Hmm, when it comes to firewalls, iptables and that jazz, you can def. count me out. | 01:52 |
| jalcine | But if you know the ports and are familiar with ufw, then I think gufw would be decent for you. | 01:52 |
| jalcine | !gufw | 01:52 |
| ubot2` | Factoid 'gufw' not found | 01:52 |
| jalcine | ಠ_ಠ | 01:53 |
| jalcine | !ufw | 01:53 |
| ubot2` | Ubuntu, like any other Linux distribution, has firewall capabilities built-in. The firewall is managed using the 'ufw' command - see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UFW | An alternative to ufw is the 'iptables' command - See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/IptablesHowTo | GUI frontends such as Gufw (GNOME) and Guarddog (KDE from Lucid onwards) also exist. | 01:53 |
| brecar921 | fixed the keyboard AND the firewall... | 02:28 |
| jalcine | brecar921: Good job! | 02:31 |
| brecar921 | OK, now I am trying to install the netgear wireless driver from the CD using ndisgtk | 02:36 |
| brecar921 | i clicked on install new driver, the browse window comes up, the CD for WNA3100 (the wireless device) shows along with other options; I select the WNA3100 then it shows multiple files and folders on the CD. Do I just select the one ending in .inf (autorun) or .ini (setup) ? | 02:38 |
| jalcine | .ini | 02:39 |
| brecar921 | I got: "not a valid driver .inf file" | 02:39 |
| jalcine | then I'm guessing the .inf :P | 02:42 |
| brecar921 | OK, then it tells me 'driver is already installed' is there a way to verify? | 02:44 |
| jalcine | Is the device plugged in? | 02:45 |
| jalcine | And I believe that if you check the output of either "ifconfig" or "iwconfig" (the latter specifically tailored for wireless devices), you should see a device with its driver name | 02:45 |
| brecar921 | i closed out of the the 'windows wireless drivers' and opened it back up again and it says 'autorun invalid driver' | 02:47 |
| brecar921 | jalcine- are you there? | 03:11 |
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| fraodir | Hello there?! | 03:23 |
| dstar | Hi all | 04:41 |
| dstar | I am kinda new to linux | 04:41 |
| dstar | I am running lxde is there a way to keep monitor settings | 04:44 |
| holstein | keep?.. i use arandr | 04:45 |
| dstar | I keep having a problem with apps opening with small front | 04:45 |
| rakesh | hii anyone there | 05:04 |
| rakesh | hii | 05:06 |
| dstar | what is the best light weight browser with flash support for linux | 05:15 |
| jalcine | dstar: Flash support typically is independent of the browser so even if the client's light, the plug-in could slow it down. | 05:18 |
| dstar | thanks jalcine | 05:18 |
| jalcine | That said, I'd point you in the direction of Firefox or Chromium | 05:18 |
| dstar | I have chromium installed | 05:19 |
| * jalcine remembers. | 05:19 | |
| jalcine | You might need the PPAPI plug-in or use Canonical's imported plugin. | 05:19 |
| jalcine | Have to install "flashplugin-installer" | 05:19 |
| dstar | it has flash on this browser | 05:20 |
| dstar | wanted to test an other browser with flash | 05:20 |
| dstar | I am running a very low end system and video sticks with chromium | 05:22 |
| dstar | but audio is perfect | 05:22 |
| jalcine | Hmm. | 05:23 |
| dstar | please remember I am a noob at linux | 05:23 |
| jalcine | Personally, I haven't experimented that far. | 05:23 |
| jalcine | But installing and toying with apps isn't difficult :) | 05:23 |
| jalcine | Try Firefox or Midori (a Gnome based web browser) | 05:23 |
| dstar | do u know the terminal name for firefox? | 05:24 |
| dstar | command? | 05:25 |
| jalcine | It's just "firefox" :) | 05:26 |
| jalcine | If you have it installed, it'd run | 05:26 |
| jalcine | Otherwise a quick and easy "sudo apt-get install firefox" would get it. | 05:26 |
| philipballew | dstar, chrome is good? | 05:39 |
| philipballew | nice... | 05:39 |
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| Fanshawe | Guys: PiTiVi (the video editing software) has no codecs. I can't import anything to it, and upon a search for packages that have the codecs, nothing appears. | 17:15 |
| Fanshawe | What's going on? | 17:15 |
| nothingspecial | Hi Fanshawe | 17:21 |
| nothingspecial | did you install ubuntu-restricted-extras | 17:21 |
| Fanshawe | Ah, hey nothingspecial. | 17:21 |
| nothingspecial | that package has most of the codecs for everything | 17:22 |
| Fanshawe | I'll take a look, thank you | 17:24 |
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| infest | would anyone here know why the sudo dd command is not found when i try to install ubuntu on a usb stick for my macbook? | 23:53 |
| infest | i am using terminal from my external drive with the install disk on it | 23:54 |
| infest | would it be because i'm not using os x that that command does not exist? | 23:54 |
| infest | i am using snow leopard install disk if that's petinent | 23:59 |
| infest | pertinent* | 23:59 |
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