In a word, WIN!!
I had previously installed 9.04 from CD with no problems.
Easily got the update by clicking System->Administration->Update Manager and selecting to upgrade to 9.10. Update took some time but was successful.
I had not done much since 9.04 install, but it looks like all my program settings have been preserved and wifi hooked right back up on reboot.
Thursday, October 29, 2009
Thursday, October 15, 2009
Mini 2133 Ubuntu 9.04
Installed Ubuntu 9.04 on the mini-note 2133 with no problems.
Only hiccup was the Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card. Once installed, the OS recognized and offered the use of Broadcom STA drivers which works perfectly.
Will give the OS a try on the ole Inspiron 5100 with a Broadcom wifi card that has never worked with any distro of linux, even with ndiswrapper...
Only hiccup was the Broadcom BCM4312 wifi card. Once installed, the OS recognized and offered the use of Broadcom STA drivers which works perfectly.
Will give the OS a try on the ole Inspiron 5100 with a Broadcom wifi card that has never worked with any distro of linux, even with ndiswrapper...
Thursday, October 8, 2009
SD Card Format from command line
Weird thing today, my SD card dropped from 2GB to 1GB. It's a mini in an SD adapter that I use this in my Palm Treo 700P for pics and docs storage.
I was able to read the files in ubuntu but the phone would not acknowledge the card at all. I copied the files into a backup folder on the laptop and proceeded to check it out.
Lifesaving post at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1243539
df -k [or h if you prefer] showed the drive mounted on /dev/sde1. Unmounted and attempted to run with 'sudo mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sde1' which left the card unchanged and still not showing in the phone.
Last entry in the post shows a format command 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde1 bs=512' which did the trick! Ran the format, removed card but re-inserting card didn't do anything so I put it in the Treo and it threw an error.
Apparently this was the kick it needed because I put it back in the laptop and sweet, 2GB card was mounted! I copied my backed up folders onto the card and worked fine this time when I put it in the Treo
I was able to read the files in ubuntu but the phone would not acknowledge the card at all. I copied the files into a backup folder on the laptop and proceeded to check it out.
Lifesaving post at: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1243539
df -k [or h if you prefer] showed the drive mounted on /dev/sde1. Unmounted and attempted to run with 'sudo mkdosfs -F 32 /dev/sde1' which left the card unchanged and still not showing in the phone.
Last entry in the post shows a format command 'sudo dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sde1 bs=512' which did the trick! Ran the format, removed card but re-inserting card didn't do anything so I put it in the Treo and it threw an error.
Apparently this was the kick it needed because I put it back in the laptop and sweet, 2GB card was mounted! I copied my backed up folders onto the card and worked fine this time when I put it in the Treo
Monday, October 5, 2009
Thursday, June 18, 2009
Cruisin' along with Ubuntu
The transition to all-linux-all-the-time has been going smooth!
OpenVPN works as expected with work's network once keys were added.
Found a most excellent theme at gnome-look.org.
Laptop comes out of hibernation every time so far! Even though it looks like it's booting from Power Off, it'll just prompt for a password and open the session just as I left it.
OpenVPN works as expected with work's network once keys were added.
Found a most excellent theme at gnome-look.org.
- Untar download
- Open System->Preferences->Appearance
- Drag folder into Theme tab
- Add... background from dir to Background tab
Laptop comes out of hibernation every time so far! Even though it looks like it's booting from Power Off, it'll just prompt for a password and open the session just as I left it.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Ubuntu 9.04 on my work laptop
I am officially NOT a MAC guy! It broke so many times, work took it back, thankfully! I will say I miss one thing, the touchpad was incredible, but that's about all I liked about it...
I was given a Dell Latitude E6500 to work on and the hardware was totally linux compatible. Local linux guru partitioned 10GB out for linux for me to play with after he loaded the Windows image. :>
I installed the new Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. There were no issues with the install and the boot manager, I assume GRUB(?), works just fine letting me boot into Windows for work and Ubuntu for play. And you have NO idea how nice it is to have wifi finally work out-of-the-box with linux! This is the first non-Broadcom chip laptop I've had and I will never get another product with Broadcom in it...ever!
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Can't remember if I installed from browser or downloaded install, but I got FLASH plugin for Firefox installed and am keeping up with my subscriptions on youtube.com again. Had to do the backspace trick for Firefox I wrote about here.
Open Office (www.openoffice.org) came pre-installed and opens files off my thumbdrive with no problem.
Truecrypt now has a GUI for linux! The install was a little weird since it was a run file instead of a dpkg install... Download tarball from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads. I had to gunzip, then tar xvf which leaves a script file. Run this file with "sudo ./truecrypt-6.2-ubuntu-x86" and it will open a GUI install, sweet! Followed the prompts and Trucrypt was install and available in Applications -> Other menu.
KeePassX on linux. This one was a little more complicated. Download .deb file from a mirror then go to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=357601 for dependencies fix.
That's it for now. Next I'm going to lookup how to move programs around in the Applications menu.
I was given a Dell Latitude E6500 to work on and the hardware was totally linux compatible. Local linux guru partitioned 10GB out for linux for me to play with after he loaded the Windows image. :>
I installed the new Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope. There were no issues with the install and the boot manager, I assume GRUB(?), works just fine letting me boot into Windows for work and Ubuntu for play. And you have NO idea how nice it is to have wifi finally work out-of-the-box with linux! This is the first non-Broadcom chip laptop I've had and I will never get another product with Broadcom in it...ever!
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= Software
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Can't remember if I installed from browser or downloaded install, but I got FLASH plugin for Firefox installed and am keeping up with my subscriptions on youtube.com again. Had to do the backspace trick for Firefox I wrote about here.
Open Office (www.openoffice.org) came pre-installed and opens files off my thumbdrive with no problem.
Truecrypt now has a GUI for linux! The install was a little weird since it was a run file instead of a dpkg install... Download tarball from http://www.truecrypt.org/downloads. I had to gunzip, then tar xvf which leaves a script file. Run this file with "sudo ./truecrypt-6.2-ubuntu-x86" and it will open a GUI install, sweet! Followed the prompts and Trucrypt was install and available in Applications -> Other menu.
KeePassX on linux. This one was a little more complicated. Download .deb file from a mirror then go to http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=357601 for dependencies fix.
- cd to downloaded keepassx_0.3.4-1_i386.deb
- Install dependencies: "sudo aptitude install libc6 libgcc1 libqt4-core libqt4-gui libstdc++6 libx11-6 libxtst6"
- sudo dpkg -i ~/Desktop/keepassx_0.3.4-1_i386.deb
That's it for now. Next I'm going to lookup how to move programs around in the Applications menu.
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