Hey fellow linux users!

 

Since monday I installed Xubuntu in a DUALBOOT configuration at work.

Now I need Xubuntu to get NTFS support, and it would be great if it automounted at boot-up.

Could you guys help me out here?

Gimme a step by step and such.

Dell Inspiron 8600 (laptop)

 

Not exactly new but not real old. Maybe 4 years max.

 

I had debian installed for a long time and it was running ok. Eventually it started being a hoe so I installed archlinux and it was ok for a while. Then I started having problems when I tried installing stuff using pacman. I think this is when the drive became non-writable or something. So I installed gentoo for fun. Well, after installation I booted up and it worked fine for a couple reboots. Then it made me do a fsck or whatever its called. Found problems that it couldnt fix I guess. So I reinstalled and all went well until the same thing happened. So I installed kubuntu thinking that gentoo was screwing up my file system. Kubuntu installed fine but after a few reboots the drive is not writable anymore. Same problems as with the other one. I dont hear any bad noises or anything. I havent gotten any hardware errors, just system errors saying the drive is not writable. How do I know if I need a new HD?

hey! Happy 3 yrs linux-noob!! I just checked that on my email, and ya i'm away off linux atm, seldom use pc too only to check email, however I just say i gotta come here and post hello for old days sake, Miss you guys!! bye ;p

SuSE 10.2 was released this week and it's beautiful and gorgeous and everything I ever dreamed, except for the blasted "broadcom wireless support." It recognizes my hp 97xx wireless card, but it won't do anything. It won't read any networks or enable or anything, and NDISWrapper suggests an alternate driver. Even when properly configured, NDISWrapper won't work now. It configures fine with the right drivers, but it flat out won't work. Has anybody gotten far enough into it to know what's going on with this? The KDE 5.5 is beautiful!

Hello everybody in Forum Land. I am a NEWBIE to Linux. Have just installed 'Mandriva 2007 FREE' on my IBM R50e. I am VERY impressed and am asking myself why I have relied on Microsoft for so long. I think I will become a convertee!

 

Anyway, everything seems to work except my wireless connection. Its an INTEL PRO2200 adapter. The system recognises it but says maiising firmware.

 

I have downloaded the ipw2200-fw-3.0 folder from the intel site, it contains these 4 files...

 

ipw2200-bss.fw

ipw2200-ibsss.fw

ipw2200-sniffer.fw

LICENSE.ipw2200-fw

 

I believe these to be the firmware files which need to be installed somewhere?

 

So,

 

1 - are these the firmware files I need?

2 - how do I install them?

 

Please help, and accept my apologies if its obvious and I'm being stupid.

 

Many thanks

ALGOZ

hi there

 

I just bought a new laptop.

Some blokes told me it's possible to boot linux from an external device and I bought an external iomega hard disk.

 

could you please suggest me the best way to do this and which is the best linux version to install?

 

thanks in advance

 

cheers

 

mic

Hi i got a ps3 and installed Fedora Core 5 on it with no experience with linux at all and am having problems installing plugins. i just want to watch videos on MPlayer(most video formats) and watch videos in firefox(like u tube) how do i step by step install codecs and/or plugins to make it work? thanks in advance. o_O

[/url][url=http://www.howtoforge.com/ssh_key_based_logins_putty]http://www.howtoforge.com/ssh_key_based_logins_putty

 

interesting arcticle covering key-based ssh logins with putty

 

cheers

anyweb

Hi All,

I just installed ubuntu for the first time on an old Dell laptop I had. I was surprised how easy and smooth it was. Amazing!

 

The only problem I encountered: I have an external mouse plugged in, but it does not work, the built-in touchpad works OK, but I'd rather use the external mouse. Any idea how I can make the exteral mouse work (instead or in addition to the built-in touchpad)

 

By the way, he laptop is a Dell Inspiron 7000 (bought around 1998, if I remember right). It was very slow under Windows, but it is fantastic under ubuntu...

 

Thanks,

Cemil

Hey fellow linux users!!

Since a week I have my laptop fully running Fedora Core 6.

Fedora Core 6 comes with the "Sound Juice CD-Ripper" which I couldn't get to rip to MP3.

Since I have a PSP and I would love to rip my cd's to MP3....this is how I do it now:

 

Tools I use are:

 

- K3b (yeah the burning software)

you can get it by going into SU mode in the terminal and typing:

yum -y install k3b

yum -y search k3b mp3

 

After that's done, download and install this:

[/url][url=ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.ps...0-1mdk.i586.rpm]ftp://ftp.pbone.net/mirror/carroll.cac.ps...0-1mdk.i586.rpm

 

After that is installed FEDORA CORE 6 will tell your there is 1 new update. install that, open up K3b.

Open the "Settings => Configure K3b" window and goto the CDDB settings.

Change it (if it isn't like that allready) to access the external cddb (for titles and such)

 

After that open a new AUDIO-CD project and in the upper-left navigator click your cd-rom/dvd-rom station where your Audio-cd is inserted in.

After that, select the tracks you wanna rip, goto "Projects => Convert Audiofiles"

Change the "WAVE" into "MP3 (lame)", choose a destination folder and your all set!!

 

Press the start button and let it run.