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I just upgraded from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10, however, my network card is not working anymore. When I had 12.04 installed, I just had to download the driver from Ralink, go to the directory and enter:

make

sudo make install

This made my network card work. When I try to do this in 12.10, it seems like it works, but it doesn't. I can enable the module, it recognizes the network card, but I am unable to connect to any wireless network.

How can I get my wireless card working again?

If anyone knows a solution, please tell me. Thanks in advance.

i have a problem at granting the right rights for the right user...

i want to run pootle with apache, so i downloaded pootle. Then i copied it to /var/www, installed it and gave the www-data user rights for the whole folder. As far as good... now i want to copy the translated files from and to the translation-directory (e.g. /var/www/pootle/po/project).
So i created a group (www) added me to the group and executed

sudo chown -R :www /var/www/pootle

ok, so now i have rights to write files into the directory, however, when apache creates a file, its group is www-data...

sudo chmod -R g+s /var/www/pootle

ok, now the group is always "www", as i wanted it to be... now here is the problem:
When i write files to /var/www/pootle they are there, however, with my user as owner, and not, as i awaited, as www-data, although i executed the command:

sudo chmod -R u+s /var/www/pootle

is there a way that i can say that the user who created the file, even if its me, shall be www-data?

thx in advance :)

I accidentally dropped firefox from full-screen to half-screen and set it to fullscreen again, but when i open firefox, it... well, it does not look very ok...

well, when i click on the upper bar, it looks like that:

here it seems that firefox is drawn too far left, when i enter an url, it does not show until it is long enough... after another click in the bar, it is really full-screen...

how can i get rid of this problem?

I wrote a Java program, which should change my /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/01proxy file. I have a server, which is not always running and i don't want to manually change the proxy, so i made a graphical program.

Everything is working, however, only if i change the directory-owner to me instead of root, and i don't like this... Is there a way to grant superuser write-permission to my java-program?

For example that the window asking for the password is popping up, but not when i start the program, only when i click on the button to change the proxy.

the program does the following:

• look if server is up (working, without su)
• look if proxy is set to server (working, without su)
• set proxy to server / normal (working, only with su)

i have 3 computers in the LAN, 1 server (ubuntu 11.10 server), 2 desktop-pcs (1 windows 7, 1 ubuntu 11.10 desktop)... i shared some folders from the server, the windows and the ubuntu pc, but i can't see them. neither on windows, nor on the ubuntu desktop, however, i can access them if i enter the computername (or ip, both works).

when a friend comes with his windows-laptop and connects to the lan, he can see the shared folders of the windows machine and i can see his shared folders, but we both can't see one of the ubuntu-computers and the ubuntu desktop can't see any share at all...

is there a way to tell ubuntu, respectively nautilus that it bcasts the network and finds the shares?

i have alrdy installed winbind, wins, samba and configured samba to use wins and added wins to /etc/nsswitch.conf.