What are you currently installing/playing?

[eyeno]

ugh. I'm sorry homie.

Please. Tell us about your rig. Is it older? Is it a desktop? Laptop?

I've never heard of so many problems ever on an install.

edit: *well, recently that is*

amd 64 desktop, 1 gb ram, vista

[Stephen Morgan]

Broken Sword was good, wasn't it Stephen?

Yes, I've always been curious about the third and later games in the series, which I've never played. The first two are excellent. Not sure why, it's not just the gameplay. The drawing is very good, all hand-drawn animation. I like the music, excellent. Very suitable, mood wise.

I should try installing ubuntu or something similar, but I'm lazy and short of time. Maybe one day. I think I downloaded the installer once.

Don't bother installing to start with, just put it on a CD and try it from there.

[Stephen Morgan]

9.10 booted to live cd and it worked fine but it did not detect a wireless signal. I checked the settings and the proxy setting was set to use a proxy but none of the proxy details were filled in. I checked the "no proxy" box. I looked at the ipv4/6 settings but its grayed out, probably because it is not picking up a connection yet. I do not think I can set the adapter settings until it recognizes the adapter.

When you click the network manager applet you should get a list of available networks, wireless and that. Or a statement about no network being available. I'm trying to think what else you can do. Think you're up to using a command line? Nothing complicated.

Just type (or copy and paste):

sudo ifconfig
sudo lspci

The first will list your network interfaces, any working drivers it detects. The second will list your PCI devices, hopefully with something like this in the output:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100

Or, from ifconfig:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:6b:09:14:8e
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)

Also, have you got an ethernet cable you can use to connect? There may be wi-fi drivers to download, if you can connect without wi-fi, which may help.

[Stephen Morgan]

ugh. I'm sorry homie.

Please. Tell us about your rig. Is it older? Is it a desktop? Laptop?

I've never heard of so many problems ever on an install.

edit: *well, recently that is*

amd 64 desktop, 1 gb ram, vista

Don't suppose you know your wifi card make?

[82_28]

ugh. I'm sorry homie.

Please. Tell us about your rig. Is it older? Is it a desktop? Laptop?

I've never heard of so many problems ever on an install.

edit: *well, recently that is*

amd 64 desktop, 1 gb ram, vista

And you downloaded the 64bit version right?

Because if not, OMFG, that could be your issue right there.

[Stephen Morgan]

ugh. I'm sorry homie.

Please. Tell us about your rig. Is it older? Is it a desktop? Laptop?

I've never heard of so many problems ever on an install.

edit: *well, recently that is*

amd 64 desktop, 1 gb ram, vista

And you downloaded the 64bit version right?

Because if not, OMFG, that could be your issue right there.

32 bit ought to work on a 64 bit computer, but not the other way around.

[eyeno]

32 bit ought to work on a 64 bit computer, but not the other way around.

Yes that was my understanding too. So I used the 32 bit because it was described as being maybe less fallible. I'll try the 64 bit version and see what happens.

Wireless card is Belkin N150

I also have not run windows update since 2009 based on the premise that if it is not broken do not fix it or monkey around with it. Might just create a problem. I am seriously considering running windows update. I probably should.

[Stephen Morgan]

32 bit ought to work on a 64 bit computer, but not the other way around.

Yes that was my understanding too. So I used the 32 bit because it was described as being maybe less fallible. I'll try the 64 bit version and see what happens.

Wireless card is Belkin N150

I see quite a few thread about that on the ubuntu forums, according to google. Is it USB or internal?

If you could type
sudo lshw -C network
into a terminal it might provide useful information.

I also have not run windows update since 2009 based on the premise that if it is not broken do not fix it or monkey around with it. Might just create a problem. I am seriously considering running windows update. I probably should.

Shouldn't effect how ubuntu works. Might breaks windows, though, based on my limited windows experience.

[nathan28]

I've got to re-install the linux/windows beta of Schrivener, since it's the only non-fiction outline-based document tool around besides LyX, which isn't helpful if you aren't in hard sciences.

I'm currently trying to get a $20 blackberry 8700 "BrickTank" to sync via local connection w/out phone service, or booting into my Windblows partition to run MS Outhouse. That, or getting my windows partition to run in a virtual machine from the Ubuntu boot. My next feat will be building an electric car from leftover appliances.

The lesson learned here was that I should have spent that $20 on anything else. But now I have skin in the game.

[AhabsOtherLeg]

82_28, uninstall Oblivion, and install Morrowind. It was a much better game.

Hammer, you're now my bro, bro, and I fully concur.

I'm currently trying to get a $20 blackberry 8700 "BrickTank" to sync via local connection w/out phone service, or booting into my Windblows partition to run MS Outhouse. That, or getting my windows partition to run in a virtual machine from the Ubuntu boot. My next feat will be building an electric car from leftover appliances.

Nathan's my bro as well.

[82_28]

Any of the Morrowind/Oblivion players checked out Skyrim yet? Doesn't come out until 11/11/11. Looks SICK!

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I wasn't the biggest fan of Oblivion, and I can get as nasty as any other Daggerfall/Morrowind fanboy about Bethesda and their current development team, but damn, I'm excited for Skyrim too. Can't deny it. I might regret hyping myself up for a classic, as I did with Oblivion, but at least I get to be all excited in the meantime.

It's got Draugr in it, like Bloodmoon did. Confirmed. DRAUGR!

[nathan28]

I got the crackberry to sync the standard-issue Gnome and KDE calendar app entries, and was able to capture entries, like tasks and memos, from it that aren't yet sync-able. Thunderbird is the best calendar application out there though. Had to start with completely empty calendars, though--importing leads to 'illegal' characters borking the sync, so it'd be necessary to re-create manually.


I found my old note entry on the graphics issue with the 10.04 bootloader/installer:

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-fix-ubuntu-10-04-lts-lucid-blank-screen-at-startup.html
http://idyllictux.wordpress.com/2010/04/26/lucidubuntu-10-04-high-resolution-plymouth-virtual-terminal-for-atinvidia-cards-with-proprietaryrestricted-driver/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1463294&page=12


I seem to remember none of those working on the old Gateway, or me not having the patience to care about an 8-year-old laptop with missing keys and a broken CD drive.

[nathan28]

I'm currently trying to get a $20 blackberry 8700 "BrickTank" to sync via local connection w/out phone service, or booting into my Windblows partition to run MS Outhouse. That, or getting my windows partition to run in a virtual machine from the Ubuntu boot. My next feat will be building an electric car from leftover appliances.

Nathan's my bro as well.

I got beat to it, apparently.

Brazilian man builds car with hammer, awl, sheetmetal and panhandling

[AhabsOtherLeg]

I got beat to it, apparently.
Brazilian man builds car with hammer, awl, sheetmetal and panhandling

A fine looking car, in my opinion, but what's with the colour scheme? I hope your own scrap metal jalopy will be less ostentatious. Slate grey is the only right and proper colour for a car, no matter who makes it. And black. Vans are allowed to be white, but only on the understanding that they're inherently vulgar anyway.