Category Archives: ProblemsI have been using Fedora 9 from a long time and it really kick’s ass but i was facing the problem that my Touchpad was not working with it but the i found the solution here
Here is how to do it
The easiest was will be to install the package http://atrpms.net/dist/f9/synaptics/
or you can do it manually [...]
I installed Ubuntu 8.04 today and faced this problem of WiFi again but ths time even installing ndiswrapper diddnt worked so had to find a way to make WiFi work on boot and here it is
For this First You need to install ndiswrapper, no need for net coz the packages are included in the CD [...]
Some of the guys posted in the forums as to how to go about it, hence this post. Going by the list of available plugins to do the same it would seem a cakewalk. But it isn’t as you would be often stranded with a plugin that won’t support the media player you would be [...]
Ok so lets start, you need module-assistant as you have to build the ndiswrapper from the source seperately, so type
apt-get install module-assistant
then prepare the build environment
module-assistant prepare
this will download the kernel-header and setup the symbolic links, now install the ndiswrapper-source package
apt-get install ndiswrapper-source
if you have internet access only via WiFi the download the packages from [...]
Found out this solution at ubuntu forums after googling a bit. I was totally fed up with the connection acting out randomly. The solution lies in locking the network interface to a specific 802.11 a/b/g mode.
Edit your /etc/rc.local file and add the following lines before exit 0
modprobe ath_pci
(sleep 10 && /sbin/iwpriv ath0 mode 3) &
Actually [...]
So yesterday after hunting for the solution of the wifi problem in Lenovo R60 so quite sometime i finally decided to try DJays solution to build Madwifi and it worked like a charm. I was thinking that there will be a total Open Source solution of the problem but well i just hope that ath5k [...]
THE MYTHS
The first problem which people face while switching over to Linux is the “unavailability of softwares” as they claim. They just try to run their windows installer/setup file and end up with frustration saying “Linux is so incompatible!” Is it really so? Linux is not a clone of Windows. Then how come you expect [...]
Well after going through a large number of guides like this i finally thought about giving guide at cchtml a try, well the hings mentioned are really great but not all steps are needed so here is a simplified version
Here i assume that you have not done any of this step before and are doing [...]
Any PHP based software can be run over a web-server. The most famous of them is Apache-the webserver used in around 75% of the websites. For running most of these PHP applications you need a webserver and a database for storing the data. Database is not required in all the cases. Some softwares use flat [...]
Well i have installed Fedora 8 now and well i was facing the usual problems, install proceeded well in text mode without any problems but on booting after the ATI driver install i was presented with a console login that is no xserver started and then started the problem with WiFi, ndiswrapper wont install it [...]
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