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Annoyed

January 6, 2009
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I’m a bit annoyed right now. Yesterday i got fed up with that under Ubuntu all sounds on the output were noisy and quiet (the built-in speakers of the laptop sounded all right, but i hardly ever use those). I looked at the Ubuntu forums, and found a post asking about this very same problem. They sent that guy over to a page where the first link was a guide on how to install open sound (OSS) instead of ALSA. And i fool followed. First, installing OSS wasn’t simple. Included downloading loads of stuff and running home-made shell scripts i didn’t even know doing what. Before that Ubuntu produced noisy and quiet sound. Since then, none. So i wanted to revert back to ALSA–at least that worked somewhat. Unsuccessful. I tried reverting the steps of the OSS install, i tried following a guide on how to reinstall it, and tried running a supposedly installer script–but all failed. Then i wanted to reinstall Ubuntu as a whole. That would surely solve it. But i only had a 8.04 CD at hand, and that Hardy doesn’t recognise even my wired network card (or it does, but the main thing is that no networking works) (Asus A6M-Q035 laptop), so no updates, no use. Back under Windows i downloaded the 8.10 CD and burnt it, but it won’t boot. At all. I’m reburning it right now (i always use rw discs, and they worked fine, so i will use them later too).

All that was in vain, by the way. The problem was that the volume of my “CD drive” (in the mixer or volume control it goes by “CD”) was set too high (who would’ve thought that could make the normal sound output that noisy?). I muted it, and no noise. I hope i could get it working again.

Naturally the Total Commander CD/DVD burner plugin decides not to work properly only when i’m in a hurry. When else? This is not my day. (I hope tomorrow will be, with my linear algebra exam.)

Edit 16:30

And to further my happiness, the otherwise over-10M net in the dorm is for some reason under 1M, so downloading the alternative Ubuntu image takes about five hours (normally about ten minutes). I am overjoyed.

Ubuntu

December 5, 2008
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That’s a nice word in some african languages, i think zulu, maybe? It’s a nice idea, anyway about the universal bond of sharing that connects all humanity (now i’m quoting the Wiktionary page of the word). Anyway, i’m not going into linguistics now, rather into the open source community. I’ve installed Ubuntu, and it works fine and well. Tomorrow will be its grand test when at home i’ll try out if that proprietary driver for my wireless card it installed works as it should. I hope it does. I already managed to share the Pidgin and Firefox profiles between Windows and Ubuntu, though making my heart stop for a few minutes. The Pidgin one wasn’t as simple as with Firefox, i had to add a parameter to the shortcut so that it’d launch with the profile files loaded from the Windows version’s folder (mounted under linux too). But i accidentally typed the “and” in “Documents and Settings” with a capital A—and because of that my Windows profile wouldn’t launch and that scared the deep burning hell out of me. But i figured out what the problem was (it was strange there were two “Documents and Settings” folders, and then i just had to find out which one was the original), so it should work all right now (since then i haven’t launched Win, but i hope it’ll work as it should).

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Network

April 26, 2008
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This is going to be a rant. (Not.) I’ve installed the new Ubuntu (8.04, Hardy Heron), and… I’m not satisfied at all. It does recognise my wireless card (Broadcom 43xx) out of box, but no way it’s working. The config doesn’t help at all… There are a few things though that made me laugh. One such was that i configured the wireless through the terminal (since the nm-applet, the network config GUI couldn’t get it working), using the good old sudo iwconfig wlan0. It did set everything right, and it stayed like that (iwconfig wlan0 showed it clear and bright), the one problem was that it didn’t work at all. Not even sudo iwlist scan (claimed that the network is down)… It was right with that claim: i checked out the hardware with sudo lshw -class network, and then decided to come back to windows. Look: the dear linux does see and recognise both my wired (which i don’t use) and wireless cards — but both as wired. There is a separate wireless something, with the wlan0 logical id. And it’s “disabled”. I have no idea how to enable it, or how to bind it to the real hardware. I’m fed up. I could get the whole thing working in five minutes under that “oh-so-crappy” Windows. And on the Ubuntu site it says “You’ll never go back.” Well, i did.

WPA, WEP, tovább is van, mondjam még?

April 13, 2008
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Tegnap délelőtt maat-nak hála be tudtam állítani a vezeték nélküli hálókártyámat Ubuntu alatt. Már kezdtem volna örülni, de csak naiv voltam. Sikerült ugyan a kártyát telepíteni, de azt elfelejtettem, hogy Windows alatt is fél napos tortúra normálisan beállítani a hálózatot (amint azt később megtapasztaltam). Linux alatt természetesen, teljesen idegen környezetben, lényegében minden segítség nélkül csak odáig sikerült jutnom, hogy az “iwlist scan” paranccsal megbizonyosodtam róla, hogy van a hálózat, látja is, de kapcsolódni hozzá nem sikerült sehogy se. Hiába állítottam be 64 bites WEP kulcsot, hiába csináltam lényegében akármit, csak nem akarták megszólítani egymást.

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Twelve

April 12, 2008
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In twelve days the new Ubuntu will come out. I can only hope that it’ll support the wireless network card i have (Broadcom 43xx), because else i won’t use it. I have no intentions of playing around it for hours, just to get it working. It’d take hours i guess, because i’d need to download the required packages onto another computer, then put them on my pendrive, add the pendrive as a repo on this computer, and install the files. It’s complicated for me, because i’m a total newbie to linux, and i have no idea on how to do it. I’ve to use another computer because this one connects to the net via that very wireless card that’s not working. I decided now that i’ll give openSUSE a try… i don’t care what, i want to have a working linux on my computer, and since Ubuntu’s not working the way i’d need it. If that doesn’t support my card either, i’ll get angry and wipe all linux out once and for athe coming two weeks.

Get away

November 30, 2007
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Ok, now i got a bit annoyed by Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon. That dear thing simply refuses to work with my laptop’s wifi card, and since i’d connect to the net that way, i couldn’t even update it. So then i’ll wait till a new version will be out, update and maybe, maybe then live happily with it. Until then, thanks no.