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Martin Hope
tacozmeister
Asked: 2012-08-28 12:10:31 +0800 CST
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So, today, I decided to turn off bluetooth to save battery power. When I did so, it did everything like normal. Whatever. But whenever I want to re-enable Wifi and Bluetooth, it just has "Enable Wireless" and "Enable bluetooth" grayed out in the respective things on the top-right of the desktop. I am using 12.04 Precise Pangolin on a Dell laptop that has never had wireless problems before. Clicking the grayed-out part does nothing. Re-logging and restarting has no effect, and I'm on an account that has full administrative permission.

My attempts:

~$ sudo dmesg | grep wlan0
[19.960211] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

.

~$ sudo dmesg | grep blue

[[nothing]]

What do I do to manually re-enable wireless and bluetooth?

12.04
Martin Hope
tacozmeister
Asked: 2012-07-16 19:27:57 +0800 CST
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Okay, I have Ubuntu version 11.10 and I wish to upgrade to 12.04. Whenever I open the Update Manager and click "Check," it has taken literally over an hour to download the cache. I cannot update without checking the cache; attempts in the console (as suggested here) have failed. What do I do in order to update without waiting over three hours to download the entire cache? Or how do I get it to download quicker? EDIT: Saw this page, it provided no help. Just false hope. Oh, and no, my internet works just fine; normally I have a 600kb/s download rate. No dial-up here.

11.10
Martin Hope
tacozmeister
Asked: 2012-07-16 11:01:36 +0800 CST
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Whenever I startup from the LinuxLive USB, and try to install Ubuntu 12.04, it only gives me two options instead of the usual 3 or 4. My options are "Replace Windows 7 with Ubuntu" and "Something Else". Whenever I go into "Something else", it looks extremely confusing. How do I install it side-by-side while using the "Something else" section? These are my partitions. 

/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 ntfs (104Mb, System Required Partition)
/dev/sda2 ntfs (1000097Mb, Windows 7 Partition)

Or should I try reinstalling my installer on a CD rather than USB and maybe then it will have the "Install alongside" function?

windows-7
Martin Hope
tacozmeister
Asked: 2012-07-15 21:46:06 +0800 CST
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This may be an odd question, but whenever I start up 12.04 installation from my flashdrive, it finishes installation. Then, at the end of the installation it says "Failed to install bootloader, would you like to install it elsewhere?" and it gives me an option of where to install it. Where do I install it to to make sure my windows 7 isn't rendered useless like last time? Included info: I [will] have a few partitions. 1) The 100Gb "System" thingie 2) Windows 7 3) Ubuntu 12.04

Which do I install the bootloader to? (in terms of /dev/sda/, because I dunno how to tell the difference between the names) xD

installation