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I hate that you can't see the scroll bar unless you mouse over it, but you can't see the bar, so you can't tell where it is...

I still haven't got any response on this. Does anyone out there know of a boot repair program I can use?

Does anyone have anyipdeas on this...I totally stumped. Any help is appreciated!

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I'm running Ubuntu 11.04 and it refuses to boot. I tried to use a boot repair disk, but no luck I'll paste the info from the boot repair below:

Boot Info Script 0.60 from 17 May 2011


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I'm not sure if this is the right forum for this. If it's not, someone plese let me know where to post. Anyway here goes:

I have a hp compaq nc6230 running Ubuntu 11.04. It has run without...

This may be a stupid question, but I have been trying to find where I change the root password. I'm sure it's somewhere obvious, but I've searched and can't find an answer anywhere. If someone could...

1) Ubuntu 10.10
2) HP
3) Compaq nc6230

I've got it working! There was an update installed this morning and when I tried the wireless again, it connected :-)

There are still 2 odd things. First it won't save my WEP key, I have to enter...

Hi Jim, I am using a Netgear WGR614v6 router for the wired and wireless network. I have not edited the IP address, because the router uses a dhcp and it works on the ethernet cable.

If I was...

Thanks pdc.I tried the script again, but I got exactly the same result.I tried openSUSE, but I didn't really like it. Program and function locations didn't seem to make any sense and it wasn't able...

Thanks pdc. I installed the new firmware, but it still can't get an IP address. I have already installed the b43 drivers and b43-fwcutte.

Anyone got any ideas?

Here is the script from the...

I still haven't been able to resolve this problem. Does anyone have any ideas or know a script to run to figure out why it was working earlier, but not now?

Thanks!

Ok, one more quick update. Another good news bad news situation. I was able to actually get it to connect to my wireless network after refreshing and taking WEP off, but it worked for about 15...

Here is the result of my latest wireless test script:

--- Which type of your network connection should be tested?
--- (2) Wireless connection (WLAN)
--- What's the type of networktopology?
---...

Ok, so I think we're getting closer. I am able to find the available wireless networks, but I am not able to find an IP address when I try to connect. I ran "dmesg|grep b43" and it told me that I was...

I tried without security, but it still wouldn't connect...

I removed ndiswrapper and used ndiswrapper -l again. this time the results were:

mikee@mikee-laptop:~$ ndiswrapper -l
Error: ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 not installed!
mikee@mikee-laptop:~$

I also...

When I first ran the script to test for wireless errors, it said I was running both b43 and ndiswrapper drivers in parallel and I had to un-install one of them. So I uninstalled b43 and the error was...

Thanks Bkratz! that was very helpful, but it's a good news bad news situation. Now that I turned on the card with fn-f2 (I cannot believe it was just turned off all this time, I am definitely wearing...

Thanks for the advice pdc. I had 9.04 installed previously, but it kept freezing. I also installed openSUSE 11.2, but the support (i.e. you awesome, helpful people:-) for Ubuntu was a lot better. So...

I downloaded the script and ran it. I had a few errors, but I wasn't able to fix any of them.

!!! CND0120E: Network card wlan0 has no IP address

The fix for...

Thanks for the help, but I tried following the directions (skipping the server steps) and I couldn't connect to the wireless still. Here are the results:



mikee@mikee-laptop:~$ sudo...

I tried installing the new b43 driver, but I was already running the correct version:

mikee@mikee-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter
[sudo] password for mikee:
Reading package lists......

I have been unable to resolve this issue. If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. I have posted all the info I can think of, but I am new to Ubuntu, so if you need more info, please...