Dec 20
Yesterday, my boss asked me if I could install ubuntu gutsy on his old unika laptop. Almost everything went fine, but the wifi. Even the kill switch wasn’t working and, typing in a terminal:
iwconfig eth1
always outputs “radio: off”. I had also in dmesg this error:
ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command
So, the base of the problem was to have a working kill switch button. Here what I did:
sudo modprobe rfkill
sudo modprobe rfkill_input
then I hit the killswitch button and, yay ! it worked.
To make this permanent I had to put these lines into /etc/modules :
rfkill
rfkill_input
and to have the led working, I created a file in /etc/modprobe.d called ipw2200 where I put this line:
options led=1
et voila
The only annoying thing left is that the wifi is always desactivated at boot.
Tagged with: config • gutsy • linux • ubuntu • wifi
Oct 21
Finally, i did it only 3 days after it has been released
I said switched and not upgraded, because I’ve done a fresh install. Incredibely fast ! About 1 hour to have my new system operational with (almost) all my apps/configs/tweaks.
The boot is also really fast compare to feisty.
ATM, the only tweak I miss a lot is the MacMenu Bar
Tagged with: gutsy • linux • ubuntu
Oct 09
As gusty is comming soon, I need to keep a list of my currently installed packages in order to reinstall (most) of them if I make a fresh install (actually update-manager allow to upgrade the distribution when a new one comes, but there is sometimes weird behaviors with this method). So here’s my little command to perform that:
the geek way :
dpkg -l | grep ’^ii’ | awk ’{print $2 $3}’ > mypackageslist.txt
the debian way (but packages names are incomplete) :
dpkg --get-selections
voila
Tagged with: bash • gutsy • tips • ubuntu
Oct 09
I’ve tried the gutsy beta last week on an old toshiba s3000 laptop. The live cd worked like a charm, so I decided to install gutsy on my disk.
After the install and reboot, it was still working perfectly : very short boot time, gnome with compiz running very smooth. Then I noticed there were some updates (139 packages, not surprising for a beta version), and I did them.
Unfortunately, after reboot, I had a black screen instead of the GDM screen. Actually, GDM starts (I can hear the sound) but the screen is black, as if it was asleep. I even manage to login (in ‘blind mode’) !
By chance, I can access to the other tty’s and login in CLI mode.
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Tagged with: gutsy • install • ubuntu • xorg
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