2007-11-24, 03:04 | Link #401 | |
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http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/ Could you copy over the error messages please? Maybe we can spot what is causing it. And who is the Fuko person you are on about? @SS - Wow that is a nice bit of history
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2007-11-24, 05:47 | Link #402 | |||
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Well, is there a way to check my network conection/configuration/w/e? Like when it involves display, I post logs of xorg.conf Quote:
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2007-11-24, 07:20 | Link #403 |
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Can you check /var/log/ in case there are any other xorg#.log files there. Or before you login could you try pressing ctrl alt f2 and see if you can login to a cmd line and then you can do something like
tail -f /var/log/Xorg0.log >> /home/username/debug.log That will pipe all the error messages to a text file. I've just installed xbuntu on a vmware machine, so I can check it out as I'm a plain ubuntu man myself. for info about your network you can type in the terminal sudo ifconfig -a iwconfig should show your devices that are wireless enabled I plugged in my linksys usb and i get Code:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Code:
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"network" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.447 GHz Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B Link Signal level=-27 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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2007-11-24, 07:48 | Link #404 | ||
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My fileserver runs Ubuntu Server which is essentially a "core" version of Ubuntu without a GUI, but it can be easily changed into a GUI-enabled system by doing an apt-get install xubuntu-desktop (for Xubuntu (XFce)), apt-get install kubuntu-desktop (for Kubuntu (KDE)), or apt-get install ubuntu-desktop (for GNOME, which is how it seems most users get their first contact with Ubuntu). Quote:
I'm not 100% sure about iwconfig for viewing your current wireless configuration, but I believe it's the same. I say I'm not 100% sure because none of my wireless-capable machines run Linux, and I try to wire up as much as I can. --Ian. |
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2007-11-24, 08:07 | Link #405 | |
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You are right you don't need it to view your wireless info, but you do if you change any of the settings.
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2007-11-24, 08:09 | Link #406 |
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There are two Xorg* logs in /var/log , Xorg.0.log, and Xorg.0.log.old ... I ran the command tail something in terminal and didn't do ctrl alt f2; well, I did but when I ran command tail, I wasn't on that whacky command-only environment. Question about tail command though, how come when I ran it, it never return back, well, erm, I had to open a new terminal and closed that one I ran "tail" with.
Anyway, here are the two logs: Code:
(**) Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice" (**) Option "Emulate3Buttons" "true" (**) Configured Mouse: Emulate3Buttons, Emulate3Timeout: 50 (**) Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" (**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9 (**) Configured Mouse: Sensitivity: 1 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded Code:
(**) Configured Mouse: ZAxisMapping: buttons 4 and 5 (**) Configured Mouse: Buttons: 9 (**) Configured Mouse: Sensitivity: 1 (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Configured Mouse" (type: MOUSE) (II) XINPUT: Adding extended input device "Generic Keyboard" (type: KEYBOARD) (II) Configured Mouse: ps2EnableDataReporting: succeeded SetClientVersion: 0 9 (II) XAA: Evicting pixmaps BOGUS LENGTH in write keyboard desc, expected 5300, got 5304 (II) AIGLX: Suspending AIGLX clients for VT switch Here's the result of ifconfig -a Code:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:13:D4:BA:42:34 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) Interrupt:20 Base address:0x8000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:200 (200.0 b) TX bytes:200 (200.0 b) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:6C:5C:5C:84 inet addr:192.168.0.102 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::214:6cff:fe5c:5c84/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1790 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:1523721 (1.4 MB) TX bytes:277275 (270.7 KB) And iwconfig Code:
lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Shana" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 12:10:92:xx:xx:xx Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Link Quality:28/100 Signal level:-78 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 Well, someone replied to my thread on Ubuntuforum suggesting to do a search there because a lot of people had the same problem of the constant disconnection . Anyway, I'm going to bed. If I don't reply in a while, it would be because, after I wake up, I'm doing homework or project. Apparently having too much fun with Ubuntu this holiday .
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2007-11-24, 08:43 | Link #407 |
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You might want to edit out identifying information such as mac addresses and the essid.
tail shows the last few lines of the log, with the -f it carries on showing any changes to the log. It is useful for checking what has jsut changed for example to check the last 50 lines i would do tail -n 50 /var/log/messages but realistically you want to check the xorg logs for any blatant error messages, but to be honest I don't expect to see anything in there that would affect your networking. to easily look through a log use less /var/log/logfile less is > then more (you will start encountering a lot of geeky humour if you use the command line tools) Good luck with your homework and let us know if you find the solution of uf
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2007-11-24, 11:39 | Link #408 |
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Because ifconfig usually resides in /sbin, most ordinary users won't have a path to it by default. You'll either need to use /sbin/ifconfig or add /sbin (and /usr/sbin and /usr/local/sbin for completeness) to your PATH environment variable set in .bash_profile (note the initial dot).
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2007-11-24, 17:32 | Link #409 | |||
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I hidden my favorite anime and birthday pretty well, don't you think ;x Quote:
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EDIT: Some guy replying to my thread suggests that I buy an antenna if my connection signal is less than 30%, which it is. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=620785 He/she suggests me to this antenna: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16833147115 EDIT2: I just found out something else. There's another PC beside the one I'm using. That PC is a really old computer with Xubuntu 7.04 on it and uses wicd as its network manager. It was set to Static IP Adress 192.168.0.102 ... now back to the one I'm currently using, it uses nm-applet and is set to Roaming Mode, so I right clicked on nm-applet icon, checked its connection information, and found out that it also had IP Address 192.168.0.102. Since I didn't set a Static IP Address on this one, I thought it would be able to find a free slot (like 103 instead of 102), but it apparently didn't. In any case, I set the Static IP Address of my Xubuntu box to 192.168.0.103; can't really say for sure but I think I haven't experience the constant disconnection since.... Anyway, sorry for the bad retelling.
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2007-11-25, 15:10 | Link #410 | |
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Though lately, I've been getting into far scarier things, like 802.1Q VLAN tagging (three of my Linux boxen, all of which running some version of Ubuntu, and one FreeBSD machine are all so configured, all talking to a 3Com SuperStack 3300 FE switch sitting on as few and as many as four VLANs). That requires not just fancy ifconfig footwork, but appropriate kernel-fu and userland tools to set everything up. Anyway, that's it from my side of things. --Ian. |
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2007-11-25, 22:20 | Link #411 | |
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But in terms of security due to the nature of sudo it is best to not run it unless you need to. In Ubuntu it leaves the door open for too long and that means the user can accidently let something slip through. Also pathing shouldn't be an issue since the security minded always use full paths <- Not that I can say this, since I was the person who carelessly suggested using it
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2007-11-26, 00:25 | Link #412 | |
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2007-11-26, 01:11 | Link #413 | |
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EDIT: Nvm, it says 15 minutes here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ro...90f462552d34ec EDIT2: This time it's about my issue (again)... Anyway, it looks like Deluge (a bittorrent client)'s connection shuts down to none after I run it for a while. I have to close the application, wait for a bit until my wireless connection reconnects, then fire it up for it to continue downloading again... which is pretty annoying. Another thing worth mentioning is that if I leave the program there for a while (when I go to bed and come back), my desktop would either freeze (happens a lot of time after I wake up, not a good way to start the morning =/), or slows down considerably (then I have to restart X)... The network thingy and the X must be interconnected in somehow, seriously. It's as if they can't leave without the other. Yep yep, they must be lovers during their last lives, definitely no doubt about it. <.<
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2007-11-26, 08:52 | Link #414 | ||
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Regarding that Debian installation... I've been having some problems when installing KDE (it's a basic installation, nothing but the shell and the low-level programs). If I use Debian Etch (stable), it installs and runs without problems, but for some strange reason seems the nvidia-kernel-common package is broken (could be my local repositories here in Argentina, but I'm not sure) so I can't install the Nvidia kernel drivers (not even with the .run file in the official Nvidia page). If I use Debian Sid, things get awful quite fast. I thought things would be solved with Lenny (testing), but nope, KDE refuses to start. X works perfectly though. I got some nice experience using the command line, though Oh, well, I guess I'll get a KDE-by-default distro on that partition. Might be a good time to try Fedora out.
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2007-11-26, 12:03 | Link #415 |
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Heh just an amusing anti windows thing.
Finally the XP Nvidia drivers for my 7600GT support my 1440x900 ViewSonic monitor, I'm so happy I don't need to create a custom profile (never too sure if I got the settings right) and it can finally scale!!!! *Edit* Just to explain why I posted to this thread... It just shows that a well supported card, with a popular brand of monitor in XP can still take nearly a year to get a fully supported driver. With the whole open source thing someone with the skill could have solved the problem for me.
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2007-11-26, 17:10 | Link #417 | ||
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Here's my current fstab: Code:
# /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # Entry for /dev/sda3 : /dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1 # Entry for /dev/sda4 : /dev/sda4 /home ext3 defaults 0 2 # Entry for /dev/sda1 : /dev/sda1 /mnt/debian ext3 defaults 0 2 # Entry for /dev/sdb5 : /dev/sdb5 /home/bilkis/ntfs ntfs-3g defaults,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 1 # Entry for /dev/sdb6 : /dev/sdb6 /home/bilkis/debian-home ext3 defaults 0 2 # Entry for /dev/sda2 : /dev/sda2 none swap sw 0 0 /dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/hda /media/cdrom1 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0 /dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto 0 0 Just to explain you what this does: The fstab file is read by the system every time it boots up in order to mount the different partitions. There are various different formats the system accepts when reading the contents of fstab, one of which is the UID format used by Ubuntu. The problem with this is that, whenever you format a partition, the UID gets erased and replaced by a new one. The next time Ubuntu boots up, it won't find the UID in the fstab, so the partition will end up unmounted. Now, when this happens to most partitions, you'll get an error at booting time which will tell you that the mounting failed and will drop you into a root terminal. This didn't happen to me when my swap was not being mounted, that's why I end up without swap for almost a month. I can't imagine what particular benefits does the UID way provide, but I find the /dev/sd* much more effective and simpler. Quote:
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2007-11-27, 01:38 | Link #419 |
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Nope, it's still GNOME by default. But if near the end of installation you check the box to install additional packages "now," you can select KDE on the page that follows.
The first time the machine boots up, choose "Session" at the login screen before entering your username, then select KDE, and log in. You'll be asked if you want to make that the default; say yes. The brute-force method of choosing KDE in RedHat-flavored distros is to edit /etc/sysconfig/desktop and enter the line DESKTOP=KDE at the top. That makes the KDE the default desktop for all users instead of GNOME. Individual users can still force GNOME to be their desktop by choosing Session at log in and making GNOME permanent.
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2007-11-27, 08:05 | Link #420 |
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Yup an Asus 7600GT with a ViewSonic VA1912 1440x900 just would not detect my monitor. It would always set it as a 1024x768 no matter what drivers I installed. The ViewSonic blokey suggested that I create my own profile for it (quite quickly so I assumed that it was a popular issue). He of course fobbed me off to Asus when I asked what settings should I use
But finally the latest Nvidia drivers detects it (sniffle). It wasn't a big issue apart from it used to do weird things to my old games as it could not do the postbox or other fancy scaling things. But just to take the p**s Freelancer now no longer works and that one isn't supported in Wine eithr so I'm not too sure what I'm going to do *sniffle*
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