Lost wireless - Wicd

1. It occurred that I lost the ability to connect wirelessly on my work network. I tried different combinations but it just didn't work. Finally I googled and found that there is a program called Wicd. It doesn't work with network-manager and network-manager-applet or something. So when I installed Wicd on my laptop I managed without any problem connect to the work network but installation Wicd uninstalls network-manager and network-manager-something. Anyway, now I can again connect to my network.

Switching displays workaround Fn-F7

Original text:

http://mcphersonz.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/switching-displays-with-a-lenovo-t60-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/

xrandr –output VGA –auto # Autodetect the VGA
xrandr –output LVDS –auto # Autodetect the laptop display
xrandr –output LVDS –mode 1024×768 # Specify the laptop display resolution
xrandr –output VGA –left-of LVDS # Extend the VGA to the left of the laptop
xrandr –output VGA –right-of LVDS # Extend the VGA to the left of the laptop

xrandr -q # displays current configuration

Useful commands

If you want to get some information about your laptop:

root@arrow:~# dmidecode -s system-manufacturer
LENOVO
root@arrow:~# dmidecode -s system-product-name
6371EXU
root@arrow:~# dmidecode -s system-version
ThinkPad T60

No sound

Probably missing
linux-modules

cross against audio control and message:

'No volume control GStreamer plugins and/or devices found.'

Installed linux-ubuntu-modules. Hopes it helps.

when your wireless icon goes somewhere

Then try:
On the panel add: Add to Panel -> Notification Area

And you have again your wireless indicator in the panel

T60 and wireless

1. Installed
http://www.ngsys.eti.br/pub/miscelaneous/patch-wireless.deb
2. /compat-wireless-2008-08-06$ sudo checkinstall make install
but errors

(Reading database ... 136579 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking compat-wireless-2008-08 (from .../compat-wireless-2008-08_06-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /home/magg/dwnl/compat-wireless-2008-08-06/compat-wireless-2008-08_06-1_i386.deb (--install):
trying to overwrite `/usr/sbin/b43load', which is also in package patch-wireless
Errors were encountered while processing:
/home/magg/dwnl/compat-wireless-2008-08-06/compat-wireless-2008-08_06-1_i386.deb

3. removed patch-wireless.deb
4. compat-wireless-2008-08-06$ sudo dpkg -i compat-wireless-2008-08_06-1_i386.deb

5. /compat-wireless-2008-08-06$ sudo make load

6. I installed linux-backports-modules-hardy

89. Setting Keyboard layout

I my Ubuntu 8.04 I have problems with remembering the keyboard layout. I want to have the Polish layout but unfortunately every time I restart my laptop I need to go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard -> Layout Tab and select the Polish layout, etc. Then it works.

https://help.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/desktopguide/C/switch-keyboard-layout.html

I will try this above that is:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf.BACKUP

Find the section that looks like this:

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Keyboard"
Driver "keyboard"
Option "CoreKeyboard"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection

Change "us" to whatever language code you prefer. Next, type this from a terminal:

setxkbmap

And ... it looks as it works.