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good catch naraku9333, I missed that possability all together.
I figured that it was the problem as the same thing has irritated me in the past. I always turn off auto session saving although I do see alot of usefulness in th feature.
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Fixing grub (and most bootloaders for that matter) is usually fairly simple and doesn't require reinstallation of the OS. PLease describe your hard drive and partitioning scheme, what OS's you corrently have installed and on which drive/part.
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Maybe he means a terminal is opening on startup of gnome. If thats the case you probably shutdown with the term open,
thats exactly what happened. I know I can make Gnome boot into tty1 by booting to the Recovery Mode, but this was the standard boot process, booting to the GUI, and before I shut down Linux to boot to windows there were no Terminals open that I know of.
other qustions? did you upgrade anything in ubuntu before the last boot?No there were no upgrades or software updates
In gnome close all open windows save the session, log out and then log in again then uncheck save session. I should have put that in my previous post.
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Maybe he means a terminal is opening on startup of gnome. If thats the case you probably shutdown with the term open, I believe gnome dfaults to saving the session, so when you log back in it starts the previous session again. If you wont to stop this go to desktop>preferences>sesions uncheck save changes to sesion. If Im off base please clarify what you mean.
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I haven't used knoppix in a while but, I believe on the knoppix menu you can get a root terminal without a password. According to AbsoluteValue that card has a broadcom chipset. AFAIK there are no linux drivers for any Broadcom wireless adapters, but ndiswrapper may work, I use it on my girl friends laptop with a broadcom chip. I think knoppix comes with ndiswrapper installed so what you need is the windows driver for the card, in my case its bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys. While in windows get any info you may need like your gateway, dns servers, and the wireless encryption key. To load the windows driver into ndiswrapper run as root
ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver_file.inf
, then check that it installed propperly with
ndiswrapper -l
, the output should say driver present, hardware present. Then load the module into the kernel with
modprobe ndiswrapper
then run iwconfig to get the interface name for the card, note what it is (eth0, eht1, wlan0, ath0). You then need to edit /etc/network/interface and add the pertinent inf for your card, heres an example
auto lo
auto wlan0
iface lo inet loopback
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
network 192.168.1.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
wireless_essid linksys
wireless_key xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
wireless_channel 6If you have another network card there may be lines like iface eth0, leave those alone, only add lines like the wlan0 in my example. Then run
/etc/init.d/networking start
hopefully that will get it up.
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What is the model number and revision (if applicable)?
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hi, I'm using Mandrake 10.1 right now and i want to play my windows games on it so i found this Cedega thing. How do i install it? The filename is called cedega_4.4.1-1.i386.tgz. I found the file online but I have no idea what site it was, otherwise I'd show you guys. I have been on windows for a long time so i also forgot how you become the administrator type thing in the terminal. If i can get this and my games to work, I will love you guys forever (i'm not gay) and I will never use windows for my own personal use again.
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To become root type su then enter root password. To install cedega change to the directory where the file is then as root run
tar xzf cedega_4.4.1-1.i386.tgz -C /
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ok ok now im lost.... would the drivers from ralink website be easier to install untill i get a handle on linux?
I don't think one will be easier than the other (install process should be same for both), I think you should use the open source driver because it's a newer version than the Ralink driver and is actively developed.
I downloaded the fedora core just incase but i have the live Cd and the install disk for UbuntuWhat distro you use is entirely u to you. I don't have any experiance with Fedora so I don't know if it comes with kernel sources. I would just stick with whatever you have installed now (assuming you do). Both are user friendly distros.
CODEsudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-<KERNVER>
where <KERNVER> = the output of uname -r should solve that. Or is there somethng else that driver requires?
Uhh yea what does that mean? Sorry if I am asking some really stupid questions but i truely dont know anything about linux.
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You have to install the the compiler and its related tools (build-essential) and the kernel headers package (source code required to build drivers) that coresponds with your running kernel(KERNVER in my example would be the version number of your running kernel). To get the version number you type
uname -r
in a terminal. The output would be like 2.6.11, so the command you would type if that was the version is
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-2.6.11
I hope that helps.
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well i still have ubuntu so im going to try to go with that first. Illl update once i try it.
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I don't think Ubuntu defaults with the nessesary libraries to build that driver.
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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-<KERNVER>
where <KERNVER> = the output of uname -r should solve that. Or is there somethng else that driver requires?
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Are you trying to install the tarball or rpm?
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I want to get a brandnew start on linux. I didnt really enjoy my last try with the dual boot with ubuntu. I couldnt get it to boot windows first and it seemed a bit slow etc etc etc.
Ok i want a new start. Whats something I can easily start out with? How do I get windows to boot first? Most importantly my real question is this. The last time I had ubuntu I couldnt go on the internet. Ubuntu wouldnt recognize my ralink rt2500 wireless lan card. I looked online for some guides but the ones I read got so confusing at time or needed an existing connection at the time. Is there a good linux distro out there that can read my wireless card and is good for beginners?
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Ubuntu really is one of if not the easiest, but Fedora, Xandros, Vida, Suse and Mandrake are all geared toward being userfriendly. I would suggest sticking with Ubuntu if you still have it installed. To get windows to boot first all you need to do is edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the
default 0
line, change the 0 (meaning the first boot entry) to the corresponding windows entry(count the title= lines).
The driver that Honda_Boy linked to should work, but its over a year old. There is an open source project for your wireless card here that looks actively developed. Download the driver and we can help you get it set up.
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Download the tarball (if you haven't already). change directory to where you downloaded then
tar xzf firefox-1.0.7.installer.tar.gz
then
cd firefox*
then run the installer.
./<installer-name-here>
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I use ClamAV, I know Avast and AVG have linux versions but I dont believe they are free.
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You may just need to unmute the card, run alsamixer in a terminal. It should show your card and its chipset,use the arrow keys to switch items and m to toggle the mute on and off.
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I've only used OSX a few times (brother in-law has a powerbook, I love that freaking thing), but this how-to MAY help. To stray off the topic a second, with MAC laptops an x86 laptop just doesnt make sense. You can actually put a PowerBook on your lap without fear of never being able to father children, not to mention an incredible OS.
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whoops just discovered that i can log-on as root. didn't know that. thought you just had to enter root password to be root. it's actually an account. who knew. (i honestly have no clue how i got the crazy idea to type root into the account name) naraku what you said worked. once i logged on as root i had access to the file. thanks for the help ya'll.
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Yes you can log on as root on most distros, some like Ubuntu (and OSX)disable the root account (cannot log in as root until its enabled). Those distros you use sudo for root tasks. Try not to gt into the habit of logging in as root it's just dagerous, use
su
(switch user)instead, just be carefull in either case ROOT=GOD.
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Apt seems to be really anal about dependencies. While trying to install Varicad (didn't need it, just wanted to try it) a few weeks ago an
apt-get -f install
after an attempt to install a dependency Varicad reqiured failed (I forget the package name) uninstalled more than half the installed app's. Was pretty funny nearly every KDE app was removed from this Kubuntu install (girlfriends laptop). I'll admit I have fairly little experience with debian (based) distros, I prefer Gentoo to all others which by the way installed Varicad with no problems although it wont run due to a missing 32 bit library (I run 64 bit cuz I enjoy makin my life harder ;P ). Dont take this as a "I hate Debian" rant, I actually like Ubuntu alot (Gento o still rules all), just need more experience with apt.
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Not to sound like I'm bashing Debian but aren't they a bit behind? Or are these repackaged 1.0.7 versions and given a deb name?
I know they're known for only releasing the most stable apps and have an outrageously long release cycle (imo) but I remember a few upgrades to firefox being significant security flaw upgrades and one would think that might qualify it to go right to the repo.
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Aren't they still using a 2.4 kernel by default? I know I accidently downloaded 3.0 and it used 2.2. I see there point to using stable versions, but IMO thats more dangerous as some of the software must have vulnerabilities that get patched with new releases.
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It's probably a function in McAfee to prevent conflicts. I have had both AVG and Avast installed simultaneously with no visible problems.
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Permissions shouldn't matter, root is omnipotent.
# echo foo >foo
# chmod 0000 foo
# ls -l foo
---------- 1 root root 8 Oct 6 05:14 foo
# echo bar >>foo
# cat foo
foo
bar
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Never tried that, definately good to know. Kinda makes you wonder why theres root permisions at all.
Nevermind, I most be too tired. Forgot the first byte is the file owner not root.
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brick wall whether i have entered the root password or not it will not let me open the file it says i don't have proper permissions. do i have to open up the file properties amd say that the owner or all users can modify it or is that even possible.
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Hmm, thats pretty odd. Root should definately have write permisions to the file. Check the permisions of the file with
ls -l /boot/grub/menu.lst
if it doesnt show rwx for root
chmod 755 /boot/grub/menu.lst
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ya know for such an evil cartoon character your pretty helpful.
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Evil gets boring after awhile (as does good)
Heh-heh, naraku9333 rules! We're lucky to have him at the Linux forum!
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Thanks Hitest, it's definately nice to feel appreciated every now and then.
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Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst, change the default line to whatever number Fedora is ie: if its the first OS (probably the case) the line should read
default 0
Boot Loader On A Floppy Or Something
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I'm going to assume you have only 98 installed on master drive and only Fedora on slave. Boot up Knoppix (or any other live cd) and mount the linux partition(s) if they aren't auto-mounted. Check if they are mounted with the 'df' command. After the drive is mounted, mount /proc to the drives FS
then chroot into the drive (changes / to the root on the hard drive (can't think of a better ay to explain it)) as root:
I would then run env-update && source /etc/profile, but I'm not sure if they are Gentoo specific commands. You can now fix your menu.lst if nessecary and re-install grub into mbr of booting drive. I'm going to assume your menu.lst is ok , so run
then in the grub shell:
that will install in MBR of first drive. If the menu.lst file is setup right you should be able to boot.