(I'm not sure if this is an Ubuntu or an Android question - feel free to move it!)
Is it possible to connect my Android Jelly Bean phone to my laptop using bluetooth so that the telephone can use the laptop's internet connection?
Android --BLUETOOTH--> Laptop --ETHERNET--> Internet
I'm running 12.10, the laptop has bluetooth and I've been able to pair the two devices.
Pencil either runs as a Firefox extension or as a standalone application with XULRunner 1.9.2.
Trying to install XULRunner:
rich@rich-laptop:~/apps/pencil$ sudo apt-get install xulrunner-1.9.2
[sudo] password for rich:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package xulrunner-1.9.2 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package 'xulrunner-1.9.2' has no installation candidate
So I tried to install it using Firefox by clicking on the install button on the Pencil home page, and the .xpi file was downloaded and opened by an archive manager.
Any ideas?
I sometimes USB tether my laptop to my phone to allow me to access the internet using 3G. The problem is that all sorts of things, such as the Update Manager, will go online and use up my valuable allowance.
Is it possible to somehow configurate things such that:
sudo -u internetaccess lynx http://mysite/)Is there a way I can do this?
(I am on Ubuntu 11.04 and my phone is an Android - when I plug in the USB cable, it all Just Works)
I have a large number of .sh scripts for opening ssh connections to various remote machines. These .sh scripts are grouped by staging/test/production/etc
In Gnome I had a series of entries in the Places menu, one for each type of system:
Places
|
+ Staging
| +Machine 1
| +Machine 2
| +Machine 3
+Test
| +Machine 4
| +Machine 5
What are my options for having this kind of layout in the Unity launcher? I suppose I'm really looking for a drawer or similar that I can mouse over to find the correct script.
If I had only a few scripts I could just pin them to the launcher one by one, but I've got about 200!
Perhaps there is a Lens for doing this?
I see that the 2.6.38 kernel has just come out. I have also read that this kernel will be in Natty when it comes out.
At what point will the Natty dailies have this final version of the kernel in them? Perhaps they already do?
I would like to stop my network card from using the Minstrel algorithm because of a problem I am having.
I have tried creating /etc/modprobe.d/80211.conf with the following in it:
options mac80211
ieee80211_default_rc_algo=pid
But that doesn't seem to work.
Any ideas?
I use ssh -X user@IP to connect to an Ubuntu Server which has had gnome-terminal installed on it.
When inside gnome-terminal, occasionally I accidentally hit a key combination and the terminal behaves differently. I think I have entered "vi mode". As an example, after I have hit this mysterious combination, I can press - and the font size of the terminal gets smaller.
I have to press ESC to get back into the normal mode.
Can anyone tell me what key combination I may have hit, and provide links or useful hints for the things I might be able to do with "vi mode"?
I have tried searching Google but haven't found anything particularly good - most pages refer to "vi mode" inside vi.
For information, I am using a French AZERTY keyboard, and the key combination I think I hit is AltGr+- (on AZERTY keyboards the number keys provide punctuation unless Shift is pressed - the key I am pressing has the 6 on it), so that I can get the | character.
I have a Philips SNU5600 WiFi dongle plugged into two machines (ie I have two SNU5600 dongles, one in each machine). One machine is running 10.10 and the other is running Linux Mint.
The dongles work absolutely fine, except if I do a lot of file transfers to a NAS attached to the wireless router. After a while the connection to the router will go.
To get the connection back I either need to run sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart or I need to unplug and plug in again the dongle.
Otherwise the dongle works fine (web browsing, streaming, etc).
Output of lsusb:
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0471:1236 Philips (or NXP) SNU5600 802.11bg
Output of lsusb -v at http://pastebin.com/dXYKkF01
What steps should I take next to resolve this? Is it a known problem?
Could it be the router? It is a 3Com "OfficeConnect Wireless 11g Cable/DSL Gateway Version 1.02.15".
Edit I am in France and the dongle was configured for the US region. I used the following command to change this:
sudo iw reg set fr
This may have made things better, but I can't be certain.
Edit 2 Disconnect happened at 19:48 and I reconnected at 20:00 - I have some logs:
/var/log/debug http://pastebin.com/saB4MPpB/var/log/messages http://pastebin.com/qEHAL9SjThis happened in debug when the disconnect happened:
Mar 9 19:36:54 rich-pc kernel: [ 211.824126] cfg80211: Found new beacon on frequency: 2467 MHz (Ch 12) on phy0
Mar 9 19:48:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 904.483214] No probe response from AP 00:0d:54:9e:71:b8 after 500ms, disconnecting.
Mar 9 19:48:27 rich-pc kernel: [ 904.711404] cfg80211: All devices are disconnected, going to restore regulatory settings
Mar 9 19:48:27 rich-pc kernel: [ 904.711412] cfg80211: Restoring regulatory settings while preserving user preference for: FR
And this covers messages at the same time plus when I unplugged and plugged in the dongle:
Mar 9 20:00:22 rich-pc kernel: [ 1619.685072] usb 1-3: USB disconnect, address 2
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1623.630015] usb 1-3: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1623.930015] usb 1-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.082780] zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: phy1
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.133849] zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: firmware version 4725
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.173847] zd1211rw 1-3:1.0: zd1211b chip 0471:1236 v4810 high 00-1d-19 AL2230_RF pa0 g--NS
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.176228] cfg80211: Calling CRDA for country: US
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179328] cfg80211: Current regulatory domain intersected:
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179332] (start_freq - end_freq @ bandwidth), (max_antenna_gain, max_eirp)
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179335] (2402000 KHz - 2472000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179338] (5170000 KHz - 5250000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 1700 mBm)
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179340] (5250000 KHz - 5330000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179343] (5490000 KHz - 5600000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.179345] (5650000 KHz - 5710000 KHz @ 40000 KHz), (N/A, 2000 mBm)
Mar 9 20:00:26 rich-pc kernel: [ 1624.233713] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
It looks like this is a known problem with the driver in question.
Any ideas whether this is likely to be fixed in the next release of Ubuntu?
I would like to disable the shutdown command for all users, even root, on an Ubuntu Server installation.
The reason I want to do this is to ensure that I don't get into the habit of shutting down the machine in this way, as I SSH into a lot of production machines at the same time as this one, and I don't want to accidentally shutdown one of the other machines by typing the command into the wrong window.
The server I want do disable shutdown on only runs inside VirtualBox on my Windows desktop, and I only use it for local testing so it is not a problem if I can't shut it down from the command line.
I have already mitigated the problem a bit by ensuring I have a different password on the VirtualBox image, but obviously if I am within the sudo 'window' on one of the production machines, I could still accidentally shut it down.
My questions are:
For information, I just use this VirtualBox image for trying out shell scripts, running Tomcat and Java, and that kind of thing.
I'm trying to use ushare to share my music collection with my Xbox.
I am using the following command line:
ushare -i wlan0 -x -c ~/Music/
But I get the following as an error:
Interface eth0 is down.
Recheck uShare's configuration and try again !
ioctl: Cannot assign requested address
I have an ethernet adapter in my PC but it's not connected. How can I get it to be happy with wlan0?
Textmate on the Mac can be bound to the txmt protocol, meaning that development frameworks (such as the Play Framework) can be configured to use this to display error messages. If a stacktrace appears, each line of the stacktrace is a URL of the format (I'm guessing):
txmt:///home/myuser/projects/myproject/ProblemFile.java:123
(where 123 is the line number).
Clicking this opens the file in Textmate.
Is this possible with Gedit, Geany or another programmer's text editor?
I am trying to get rid of my Gnome panels so that I can go to a purely Docky/Gnome-Do environment.
I have got rid of everything, except for a single remaining panel which I cannot delete.
The text "Delete this panel" is greyed out - any pointers about how to get rid of it?
Is there a network manager docklet shipped with Docky? If not, how can I add one?