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It's been a long time since last I added something here, but having some conversations this last week, I got inspired to update things.
I've been spending a lot of time with Ops Center for managing and installing systems these days. So, I suspect a number of my upcoming posts will be in…
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Issue: no sound
System:
Dual boot
Windows 7 (sda)
Ubuntu 12.04 (sdb)
2 harddrives
Dell XPS 730
Video card: AMD Radeo HD 7770 Diamond Multimedia
Sound card: Creative Labs SB X-Fi
Additional info:
My sound used to work.
Then, my old video card (NVIDIA geforce 280) died.
I bought and…
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I've recently installed Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit on a HP Envy 15 1104tx. Most stuff appears to be working fine with the exception of the two USB3 ports (USB2 port works fine). I've read a lot of articles but so far have not been able to find a solution.
I've tried adding 'pci=nomsi' to '/etc/default/grub'…
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I had wifi and worked then some day ubuntu asked me to update some packeages and restarted the system and after that no wifi.
this is my wireless_script output :
########## wireless info START ##########
##### release #####
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14…
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After upgrading to Precise, I am required to run 'sudo dhclient eth0' in a terminal in order to get the internet to work. Everything worked perfectly fine on Oneiric, so It's really puzzling me.
I'm thinking it could possibly be something with the kernel, but who knows.
Output of dmesg:
[ …
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I got a question today from someone asking about the older SAS1 hardware from over a year ago that we had on the older 7x10 series. They didn't leave an email so I couldn't respond directly, but I said this blog would be blunt, frank, and open so I have no problem addressing it publicly.
A quick…
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I have a very frustrating problem with my PC. I cannot install any recent version of Ubuntu Server (or even Desktop) since 9.04 even using the text-based installer. I boot from a USB stick created by Unetbootin (I also tried other methods such as startup disk creator with no difference).
On the Server…
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My Linux machine reports "uname -a" outputs as below:-
[root@tom i386]# uname -a
Linux tom 2.6.9-89.ELsmp #1 SMP Mon Apr 20 10:34:33 EDT 2009 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@tom i386]#
As per man page of uname, the entries "i686 i686 i386" denotes:-
machine hardware name (i686)
processor type (i686)
hardware…
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Hi,
I have a USB wifi card (D-Link DWA-125) on a Windows 7 x64 computer. The problem is that the card appears on the "safely remove hardware" list, but I don't ever want to unplug it, so I would like to remove it from the list.
So far I have only found solutions that mess with the registry (and…
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I have a new desktop computer with two SSDs: one running Linux Mint 15 (SSD1), the other running Windows 7 (SSD2). My mint runs perfectly - USB wireless adapter is recognized, SSD2 (connected by SATA) is recognized and accessible through the filesystem, Ethernet works, etc.
However, my Windows 7…
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