I have a Suse 9.3 system. Following an automatic update the system will not boot. I get a problem with "Waiting for /dev/sda2...." and it gets no further. I have searched the web for this and there is some discussion out there but nothing quite fits. My system will not boot from hard disk so I would like to re-install the original Kernel to get back to a working system. Any thoughts ?
I'm sure that topics like this have been posted 100+ times... I've read a lot of posts about the situation and, honestly, I'm still confused. I'm a complete Linux noob... Like... completely lol. I am running Fedora Core 3 on my Compaq Presario 900 Laptop. Looks awesome and runs very well. The problem is that I cannot figure out how to install drivers for my Linksys WPC54G wireless network card. In the topics that I've read, they said some stuff about "ndiswrapper". I understand what it's supposed to do, I'm just unsure of how to use it lol. All the commands/file structures/etc... are still very new and foreign to me...
A person from another linux forum posted this...
Quote:the easiest way is to use a program known as ndiswrapper, this program allows you to use the windows drivers which came with your card in linux. ndiswrapper can be found on the cd/dvd you used to install your distro, you will also need to install the kernel-sources package and the wireless-tools package. Then in the command line do the following after copying the windows drivers to you home directory:Code:
Code:
su -
<enter root pass>
cd ~/drivers
ndiswrapper -i name_of_driver.inf
ndiswrapper -l <------- check to see if installed
ndiswrapper -m modprobe ndiswrapper <----------- save settings on reboot
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now launch your distro's hardware/network config tool and enter ndiswrapper as the driver for the wireless card. Then configure it as normal i.e. add the essid, wep key, ip address etc.
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The thing that's confusing to me is where do/how do I install this ndiswrapper program, where do I put the drivers for my wireless card, and anything else that a complete noob would need to know about this lol.
Thanks for your help/views in advance. I guess not knowing any of this is my punishment for using windows for 20 years =P
choose the Beta 4 (linux) version listed on the right,
once downloaded make the BIN file execuatble by doing this
chmod +x GoogleEarthLinux.bin
next, run the file by doing this
sh ./GoogleEarthLinux.bin
Code:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing Google Earth for GNU/Linux 4.0.2091..................................................................
Installing mimetypes...
Running /usr/bin/update-mime-database /home/anyweb/.local/share/mime
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* Updating MIME database in /home/anyweb/.local/share/mime...
Wrote 2 strings at 20 - 6c
Wrote aliases at 6c - 70
Wrote parents at 70 - 74
Wrote literal globs at 74 - 78
Wrote suffix globs at 78 - d0
Wrote full globs at d0 - d4
Wrote magic at d4 - e0
Wrote namespace list at e0 - e4
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Installing desktop menu entries...
finally start it, and tell me is it working on on your system :)screenshots below
checking for KDE... configure: error:
in the prefix, you've chosen, are no KDE headers installed. This will fail.
So, check this please and use another prefix!
hildretd@linux-kblp:~/Programs/kompile-0.3-beta2>
I'm just trying to install Kompose, but I can't seem to get past the "./configure" stage.
I formatted my (previously windows) HDD today and installed ubuntu. I know nothing about linux OSs really and the files system is beyond me atm, but im getting there.
Im a member of an invision power board (much like this ;) ) that has live chat enabled, which I would like to get working. I went into the synaptic package manager, did the stuff it told me to on the ubuntu site, and downloaded and installed the JRE plugin.
Now when I click on live chat, the loading bar comes up, but when it gets to the top, FF closes :(. And not just that window, if I have another FF window opens, it shuts that too :(
Can anyone help????
Also, is a different distibution better for total linux noobs?
Hello all! It has been a while! I usually hate to come back to the boards with a question/favor, but I've gotta get this fixed ASAP.
So, I logged into linux this morning and was confronted with this problem. Basically, I have booted into KDE, but it is displaying a lot of properties of gnome. The kicker is still there and well, "kickin'", but I have gnome desktop properties, gnome desktop icons, gnome file manager, and that's all I'm aware of right now. I tried to log out and then back in again, but with same results.
I hope somebody can help! Please! Just let me know what I need to do for you guys as far as configuration files and what-not. Oh, and let me know how to do it too, I'm still new at this.
