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Dell Wireless and Ubuntu Hardy Heron
I have a Dell Inspiron 1520 with the Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-Card, one that has given many Linux users big headaches.
After trying many different approaches suggested all over the web, and gathering clues in many Ubuntu forum posts, I finally worked out this solution:
First of all you must check if you have the correct card:
lspci -nn | grep 14e4
Result: 05:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI [14e4:4311 (rev 01)]
Then proceed to the first step:
1. blacklist bcm43xx
echo blacklist bcm43xx | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
2. install ndiswrapper and related files
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 ndisgtk
Dell Inspiron 1520 linux sound too low
When volume of the sound captured is too low, even with system sound volume set to maximum level, do the following:
1. Open the GNOME volume control tool:
$ gnome-volume-control
2. Select Edit -> Preferences and verify the following tracks are visible: PCM, Front, Capture, Mux and Digital. Click Close when done.
3. In the Options tab, verify that the Input Source is set to “Mic”.
4. To maximize volume of recorded sound: In the Recording tab, adjust the “Capture”, “Mix” and “Digital” sliders higher to raise the volume level of the captured audio. Click on the microphone icon on the bottom if it has a red cross on it to unmute it.
5. To maximize volume of playback sound: In the Playback tab, adjust the “PCM”, “Front” and “Surround” sliders higher to raise the volume level.
When the overall sound volume is too low, you should:
1. Right click on speaker icon in system tray, and select “Open Volume Control”
2. Go to Edit: Preferences
3. Put a check next to Front. Hit OK
4. Turn Front volume all the way up.
5. Now the master volume control raises and lowers the volume between much greater extremes.
Command Window in Vista Setup
If you found yourself in the position of needing something from the Vista installation disk, you can always raise a Command Prompt Window, and navigate to that location. For example you need the product key so you can copy - paste it rather than typing it by hand.
During the GUI phase of the installation you can press the SHIFT + F10 keys, and you will have yourself a Command Window. From this you can navigate to a text file, or run regedit.exe or any other executable Vista copied to the installation folder on the hard disk.
Thank you Daniel Petri, for this information.
Changing Remote Desktop Port
Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it’s easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it’s an essential thing to turn on.
To get to the configuration page, you can either right-click the Computer icon and choose properties, or you can type in system into the start menu search box, and then System.
Now you’ll want to click the Remote Settings link on the left hand side.
Check “Allow Remote Assistance connections to this computer” and “Allow connections from computers running any version of Remote Desktop” (this means that you can access your remote computer using Windows XP also).
Note: This will not work for Home editions of Windows Vista.
Microsoft & Yahoo
Shutdown Command in Vista
Allows proper local or remote shutdown of machine.
SHUTDOWN [/i | /l | /s | /r | /g | /a | /p | /h | /e] [/f] [/m \\computer][/t xxx][/d [p|u:]xx:yy [/c "comment"]]
Wordpress error
After installing a WordPress Blog I started installing some useful plugins. One of them was WP Security Scan. One of the errors in the initial scan was that I had the wp_ prefix in the tables of my database. So I followed the instructions and changed them. But after that, each time I use tried to log in, I get:
You do not have sufficient permissions to access this page.
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