Yes I understand it correctly. And I'm sure I was talking about ndiswrapper.
Ndiswrapper tool ( userland ) will not work without ndiswrapper kernel modules !!!!
Remember "modprobe ndiswrapper" ?



That is why you need to compile ndiswrapper against your kernel headers.
Hey .. I'm trying to teach you something here ... not to insult you.

I don't care how big or small the picture is.
Isn't he stuck on Step 3 ? Where the kernel module suppose to be built?


What road? There is no easier road when building module.
Don't confuse userland and kernel land. Yes, userland you can just apt-get.
But not with kernel land.

I should stop now before it goes to far.

Try: apt-cache search gnome-vfs, probably the name has change or whatever.


This only happen when compilation failed.
If you ever compile ndiswrapper from source code, you will know that once you run make install, it will install both ndiswrapper.ko (kernel module) and ndiswrapper utils (loadndisdriver ndiswrapper ndiswrapper-buginfo).
So ndiswrapper -m will not been a problem if he finish step 3.
Not all Distro's kernel comes with ndiswrapper module because it never got into main stream kernel. I doubt it wiil ever be. For sure, I know Debian stock kernel will not come with it.

Atleast you should get libgnomevfs2-extra.
Probably something is missing in your apt sources.list. Please check.
Look for any error shown when you apt-get update.

You can manually search package here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/libgnomevfs2-extra

Yes you can.
If you are using udev ( which most distro use today ), edit file :
/etc/udev/rules.d/???_persistent-net.rules

**??? different on different Distro

Look for something like:
Example:



And change to



**{address} = Mac address of your net device

If you don't want to reboot. Just remove and reinsert you wireless modules:
ex:
rmmod zd1211rw
modprobe zd1211rw

iwconfig or ifconfig should show your new interface name.
But that's not finish yet. You need to change device name in whatever tools you use to set internet connection.




Yes successfully installed driver and hardware is detected.
If one of it not succesfull, the pci/usb id will not shown.


The last time I used nvidia wiith proprietary driver, nvidia logo is shown when X is started.
The easiest way to check is, look at xorg.conf. If you are using "nvidia" as xorg driver, then it's using proprietary.
If it is "nv", then you are using xorg own driver.

This post has been edited by oshiri: Sep 4 2008, 08:33 AM

Try pass ide=nodma to kernel from grub.

Then try using: pci=nobios
More on pci bootparameter: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/BootPrompt-HOWTO-4.html

Have you read my post before?
http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/159451/+1120#
http://www.sane-project.org/lists/sane-backends-cvs.html

Actually you can have a passwordless system regardless what some people outside there telling you it can't be done.
Anybody who knows how to create a livecd already knew about this ( I'm not talking about remastering here).
What you need to do is create a script to automatically start your X server and desktop, bypassing any login manager (gdm, kdm, xdm etc.).
For the password, you need to adjust your shadow file.
You still need to have superuser or root previledge to do adminisrative task.
This can be achived by using sudo or su (but without needing to enter password).
That's all I can reveal.

Different people have different perspective about security.
Some just being paranoid.

Boot using livecd (since you cannot boot hdd) and run this command:
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

It will show all the partition by uuid.
Use the id in menu.lst.

If you need more details, please read my article:
http://mambang.org.my/modules/news/article...3&keywords=uuid

Always start with "ping" when trying to troubleshoot networking problem.

1. ping ip vista client - make sure vista does not blocking icmp
If you got reply, then there is no problem

2. ping vista hostname/netbios name
If you got reply and the ip comes back, then it is fine.
If you got ip which you does not recognized, then you could be behind router and you can't use hostname for samba.
If this is the case, you might want to try samba winbind.
http://mambang.org.my/modules/news/article...eywords=winbind

3. Try list samba shares using what anetwork suggested by using both ip and hostname. This will give you some clue if your samba configuration has problem or folder shares on vista has problem.
You can check your samba configuration using : testparm

This might be a kernel regression..
Try pass this two kernel parameter when you are in grub:
i8042.nomux i8042.noloop

You could run this as root (sudo):
sudo export http_proxy=http://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080
sudo export ftp_proxy=http://username:password@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8080

Then run apt-get.

Or add those 2 lines to your root .bashrc ( probably Ubuntu does not has root .bashrc ), so add it to /etc/bash.bashrc)

Not sure what the problem is/are.
I will start by checking this two:
1. wrong hdparm; you can check using hdparm /dev/"hd dev"
2. could be your graphic; try set back to xorg default driver : nv