General Linux Chat and Small Questions

[rosar0980]

After a lot of headaches, I settled for Lubuntu, and I love it. However, is there anything I should know about Lubuntu, or just Linux in general?

[nikomo]

SSH is awesome. That's the only thing you really need to know.
Embrace it, love it, spread it.

[rosar0980]

Excuse my stupidity, but what is SSH?

[nikomo]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secure_Shell[/url]

[kukiric]

Is it me or the proprietary nvidia drivers support KMS on 270.30? Either that or they're using uvesafb, which I doubt because switching from a tty to another is instantaneous, and the startup sequence is actually running at a nice resolution.
Using Arch here.

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=kukiric;28930655]Is it me or the proprietary nvidia drivers support KMS on 270.30? Either that or they're using uvesafb, which I doubt because switching from a tty to another is instantaneous, and the startup sequence is actually running at a nice resolution.
Using Arch here.[/QUOTE]

It doesn't support KMS and it probably never will.

[Gaza Pen Pal]

Just installed fedora 14 xfce and I'm wondering how I find networks to connect to

[kukiric]

[QUOTE=kukiric;28930655]Is it me or the proprietary nvidia drivers support KMS on 270.30? Either that or they're using uvesafb, which I doubt because switching from a tty to another is instantaneous, and the startup sequence is actually running at a nice resolution.
Using Arch here.[/QUOTE]
Scratch that, I set the VGA mode in grub.cfg before installing and forgot to update grub entries after installing.
:ms:

[ASmellyOgre]

[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;28934417]Just installed fedora 14 xfce and I'm wondering how I find networks to connect to[/QUOTE]

It uses Network Manager, so there should be a little icon in the taskbar that you can right-click on.

[sir whoopsalot]

Can somebody explain this joke to me?
[url]http://xkcd.com/644/[/url]

[derpmeifter]

Okay, so for a little while I didn't have a flash drive with which to install Windows, so I went to ubuntu (already had a flashy with it on there). It worked okay, except for the fact that it displayed 1280x1024 on my 1920x1080 monitor. Not too surprising, hadn't installed drivers for my graphics card yet (6850), it told me to install proprietary drivers (guessing fglrx). Immediately after restarting, it gave me the ubuntu splash screen, but right before it got to the login prompt, it blackscreened. I've now got windows on there, but I'll probably be dual-booting with some other distro later. I'm sure there's a fix for this, but what's a good alternative driver to use in place of fglrx?

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28937526]Can somebody explain this joke to me?
[url]http://xkcd.com/644/[/url][/QUOTE]

I think it has to do with Linux supporting USB 3.0 before any hardware existed. I don't know though.

[Gaza Pen Pal]

[QUOTE=ASmellyOgre;28934581]It uses Network Manager, so there should be a little icon in the taskbar that you can right-click on.[/QUOTE]

That brings up "configure VPN" and allows me to add a wireless connection, but I can't see a list of nearby networks like I can with windows 7.

I guess that means fedora doesnt detect my wireless card, how do I go about making it see the card when its an internal one?

[Boris-B]

We'll need some more info help you with your card.

run this is the terminal

lspci
lsusb
ifconfig -a
iwconfig

[Nipa]

This isn't necessarily a Linux question, but does anyone know how to get the Windows taskbar to show up while using Unity in VMWare? It's working well, but I want to actually be able to use the Windows taskbar.

[butre]

[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;28937526]Can somebody explain this joke to me?
[url]http://xkcd.com/644/[/url][/QUOTE]

hardware comes out all the time that Linux doesn't support but there are constantly projects out to get shit working with Linux

[MetricMoose]

Nifty, I discovered this little command that lets you list all the users:

awk -F":" '{ print "username: " $1 "\t\tuid:" $3 }' /etc/passwd

[Blade]

Is there a simple guide on minimizing centos? I followed this [url]http://anchorite.org/blog/2006/11/13/minimal-services-on-centos-44-mini-howto/[/url] and got it down to 64mb ram usage. Although I just bought a vps and it only has 10 processes running and 13mb ram used.

[nikomo]

Could you run ps aux and post results?
Don't even have to post results really, shows what's running so you can figure out what you can still remove.

[faillord adam]

How can I install Java with a .bin file? Unless Ubuntu supports .RPMs.

[Boris-B]

Here's a guide.
[url]http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-java-runtime-environment-jre-in-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-using-ppa.html[/url]

[faillord adam]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;28969099]Here's a guide.
[url]http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-java-runtime-environment-jre-in-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-using-ppa.html[/url][/QUOTE]
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E: Unable to locate package sun-java6[/QUOTE]

[nikomo]

Try sun-java6-jre

[faillord adam]

[QUOTE=nikomo;28969378]Try sun-java6-jre[/QUOTE]
It says I already have it. How can I set the Oracle JRE to the default?

[editline]3rd April 2011[/editline]

Is the OpenJDK the reason I can't move in Minecraft (Classic) and have to restrt my computer to do anything else?

[nikomo]

Type java, see what it reports. Should tell if you're using Sun's Java or OpenJDK.

[Boris-B]

sudo update-alternatives --config java

[PvtCupcakes]

[QUOTE=nikomo;28969694]Type java, see what it reports. Should tell if you're using Sun's Java or OpenJDK.[/QUOTE]

It's "java -version"

[nikomo]

Just java also prints out if it's Sun, it's right at the bottom.

[Gaza Pen Pal]

[QUOTE=Boris-B;28942349]We'll need some more info help you with your card.

run this is the terminal

lspci
lsusb
ifconfig -a
iwconfig

[/QUOTE]

[Alfred@Alfred ~]$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 05)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 05)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 05)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 05)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 05)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 05)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a5)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 05)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 05)
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 02)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
[Alfred@Alfred ~]$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 5986:0148 Acer, Inc 
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 045e:00d1 Microsoft Corp. Optical Mouse with Tilt Wheel
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
[Alfred@Alfred ~]$ ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 1C:75:08:66:4D:48  
          inet addr:96.24.99.29  Bcast:96.24.111.255  Mask:255.255.240.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::1e75:8ff:fe66:4d48/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1311 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:894 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 
          RX bytes:895816 (874.8 KiB)  TX bytes:157386 (153.6 KiB)
          Interrupt:46 Base address:0x2000 

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 
          RX bytes:240 (240.0 b)  TX bytes:240 (240.0 b)

[Alfred@Alfred ~]$ iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

[Boris-B]

[quote]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4313 802.11b/g LP-PHY (rev 01)[/quote]

Here's your problem, most likely.

There should be most probably a way to get it working. Lemme do a bit of research.

[editline]3rd April 2011[/editline]

We'll need to see if the driver is installed. If it is, it'll need the firmware.

Run:

dmesg | grep -i firmware

It should tell us if a module is requesting firmware.