Hello all, I currently have a very unreliable connection to the internet. I have a IPhone six that I was grandfather in on that has unlimited data and the personal hotspot feature on. I have bought many different modems, adapters..that is why I kept seeing this link pop up, (I was going to try and and even clone a ahhh "sheep" later). That is how desperate I am. I have rooms full of old hotspot devices. hardware, cords, routers, old phones, antennas, etc). I am currently just using wifi-over-wan on a CP-MBR95. As I am sure you all know this gives me barely enough bandwidth to download a Game of Thrones episode, and the signal fluctuates continually. In fact this is the second attempt at posting here because I lost the signal, and had to start over just as I had almost finished the last one, so I shall wrap it up. I would like any suggestions on what Linux version I should put on the awesome new hardware I received yesterday, and any suggestions on a bootloader would be great too. I am currently using Yosimite, but occasionally I need to play Skyrim or something so my head doesn't explode, or I wear out the reset button.
[B]Primarily[B], I need to first make sure I am at least getting enough bandwidth to justify my $180 a month Verizon bill (plus all the hardware I buy that never fits or works as expected, and ideally want be able to set up a VPN and share my data with friends. family, and community. I usually am quite impulsive, obsessive, and I do not often ask for help from others. That is most likely what has impeded my progress thus far. That and the fact the web can be loaded with poor information. I do not have any programming skills, but I have a strong imagination, and a willingness to learn. I also am devoted to aid the next curious soul who has the same fascination with getting in way over his head, and keeping at it until he at least knows more about something than he did if we spent his days with his head in the sand as sadly many of us do here in the US, especially the parts I'm from.
Thank you for suffering through that novice novella,
I look forward to learning what I can from you all.
Respectfully,
RaVen162
P.S. - I'm not sure how things work around here but if anyone has any suggestions at all, or have someway I can contribute, please don't hesitate to contact me. I got very close to losing my unlimited plan yesterday for upgrading to a 4g LTE phone on another line and putting the sim in the only plan with unlimited data. (if you ask questions like, "isn't that a violation of our contract by denying me the services I have paid for at an inflated cost for 8 years now." They usally say something like I'm not sure Sir. I'm not a lawyer..."OK can you put me in touch with him when he gets back from his deposition over at Tracfone"?.. got a call back 5 min later and he had no problems with what I did. By the way, just a heads up. I may me a smartass from time to time, but I am rarely one without the other. I apologize in advance for breaking any rules. Hopefully you guys will let me hang around for a bit. I really want to learn any OS I can, especially opensource ones. Thanks Again!
Hello everybody,
I am seeking help regarding sharing internet connection. I would be greatful.
I have;
A Laptop : Samsung RV509, i3, 300GB HDD, 3GB Ram, Dual boot Windows7 & LM 17 cinnamon 32bit. WiFi & Bluetooth available.
A Desktop PC : Celeron CPU 2.4GHZ, 40 GB HDD, 1GB RAM, LiveUSB-LM 17 cinnamon 32bit, No WiFi hardware available, No Bluetooth hardware available.
A mobile phone : Nokia Asha 500, WiFi & Bluetooth available.
An old USB data cable: with which the mobile phone can be connected to the computers. I have successfully connected and transfered data back & forth, and also shared/connected Mobile-Broadband-internet to both Laptop and Desktop.
What I have been doing now is; I have an internet connection to my Laptop with an external modem and Ethernet. Its working fine. I have an unlimited plan and so I want to share this internet connection on the mobile phone too; instead of incuring extra cost by connecting to the internet directly through the phone. I am successful at that. I can share this internet connection on my phone through WiFi.
Now, what I want to do is; without buying any extra hardware, to share this same internet connection on my Desktop PC, too.
What I tried is; I searched the web, but didn't find any solution. Now I am here. Please kindly help me.
Thank you & Regards
Anil
I've recently bought The Elder Scrolls Online: Tamriel Unlimited, and I can't get it to work with wine no matter what I do. I've followed this tutorial, which just gives me a white screen when I run the installation exe, I've run the script from POL, which gives me the same white screen when I run the exe, and I've tried running it with just wine, giving me the same result. I've tried using opengl in the "display" tab on play on linux, which does't do anything. I've tried installing some components such as vcrun, doesn't help. I've reinstalled play on linux and wine, didn't do anything. And I've tried installing steam and then installing the elder scrolls online from steam and it doesn't do anything.
"playonlinux.log" from installation script: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11549385/
"playonlinux.log" from this video: http://paste.ubuntu.com/11549531/
When I start up the installation exe it will bring up a window that looks like this (sometimes the text doesn't show up) or bring up a crash dialog that looks like this. Then When I press "go" or the blank button depending on whether or not the text decides to show up, it will bring up a fullscreen white window and then it will shrink down and freeze, not doing anything or showing anything. Sometimes it will bring up a window like this when I press "go", frozen, saying "play on linux is installing your application."
I'm using the latest version of Manjaro, just updated. And I'm using the "video-catalyst" proprietary drivers. Note that I did get it working with my laptop by just running "wine Install_ESO.exe" and it worked fine. The only difference is the hardware and the drivers, both are running manjaro. Does it only work with open-source drivers?
If any of you have any help, I'd appreciate it. If there is any log files you need I can provide them.
I am trying to process some .csv files with Linux as follows:
Some fields have data with newline characters embedded, like so:
"Bob Smith
531 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC"
(I verified the existence of the " via Wordpad. The file is too large to easily edit in Wordpad to get all the data for each row on a single line).
what linux command would I use on the files to get the data in each cell on one line?
I have tried:
1. awk -v RS="" '{gsub (/\n/,"")}1' file > newfile
but the cell data was still being read in as if "531 Pennsylvania Avenue" was a brand new row in the CSV file.
2. Command 1 followed by awk -v RS="" '{gsub (/\r/,"")}1' newfile > finalFile
but that resulted in all of the data in the file being put onto a single line.
3. awk -v RS="" '{gsub (/\r\n/,"")}1' file > newFile
But that result was the same as attempt number 2.
How can I preprocess the file so that:
"Bob Smith
531 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC"
is read as a single field on a single line as part of the row it should be associated with, like
"Bob Smith 531 Pennsylvania Avenue Washington, DC"
For whatever reason, when I try to mount a data DVD I get the following message:
Unable to mount [disk name]
Error mounting: mount exited with exit code 1: helper failed with:
mount: mount point /media/cdrom does not exist
Yet, if I put a DVD video in I can play on any of my video apps, yet I also can't mount those in a file browser. I have no idea what has caused this. I haven't backed up data to disks in a long time, I only did so today because I'm running low on space in one of my drives.
I was told elsewhere that I needed to alter a file: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-cd.rules
But I have no idea how to do this, and what I found there does not look like what was shown. This is what my file looks like:
Code:
# This file maintains persistent names for CD/DVD reader and writer devices.
# See udev(7) for syntax.
#
# Entries are automatically added by the 75-cd-aliases-generator.rules
# file; however you are also free to add your own entries provided you
# add the ENV{GENERATED}=1 flag to your own rules as well.
# TSSTcorp_CDDVDW_SH-S223C (pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0)
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrom", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="cdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="dvd", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
SUBSYSTEM=="block", ENV{ID_CDROM}=="?*", ENV{ID_PATH}=="pci-0000:00:1f.2-scsi-1:0:1:0", SYMLINK+="dvdrw", ENV{GENERATED}="1"
Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I was recently given a Samsung Convoy 3 phone as an insurance replacement. One of the phone's features is that you are supposed to be able to transfer data directly from the phone to your computer using a USB cable, but the phone's data transfer program (Mass Storage) has been hanging at the step where it contacts the computer. I am running Linux Mint 13, and I've determined that the operating system recognizes the phone when I plug it in, but it doesn't mount automatically. Verizon and Samsung have not been helpful.
Today I figured out how to mount and unmount the phone manually using mtpfs, but I wasn't sure what program to assign to open it, and the one I chose didn't work. Now I can't figure out how to change the program assignment -- no "open with" option comes up when I right-click on the icon on my desktop -- and I'm also not sure what program to use.
I'm willing to do the whole data transfer via command line if someone can walk me through it. I'm not very experienced with command-line prompts yet, but I've loved the ones I've learned so far.
Thanks!
Hi,
I am not completely new to linux.
My problem is the following:
The signal queue of my process gets filled with time.
With /proc/PID/status --> SigQ 6032/6032 i can see that the queue is full!
And my software is waiting on signals to process data. So I want to know wich signal filled my queue and I am interested to see the attached data of the signal --> sival_int or sival_ptr, I use sigwaitinfo() to read the data.
They say there are no secrets in Linux. I am finding that learning about Linux is becoming a life long experience. I have just started using a Debian distribution that is behind the Raspberry pi. My first problem was that the display would go to sleep after about 15 mins when not used. I wanted to turn this feature off. That is I wanted the display to be on all the time.
After some web searching I came across a way to do this. It involved a file in the root area called "lightdm" which stands for light display manager (I think).
Then under this as a file called the lightdm.conf file. Just one line in the config file gets modified. Now doing this via the monkey see monkey do method works. But trying to find out how this works and exactly what the cryptic commands do, ends up being a frustrating endless search. I tried to find the source code for lightdm buts its documentation is certainly not for beginners.
I tried finding out what a "greeter" was once again huge amounts of time spent trying to make sense of endless terminology.
It seems that nowadays trying to learn about the details of any software system is just so hard. Like try and find good documentation on drivers.
Don't get me wrong I love the fact that at least Linux is open source but I wish there was an easy way to learn about it.
Have had ongoing problems with wifi since I built my PC. It was like it is now when I first built it, I tried bits I found online to try and fix it and evntually it just started working out of the blue, when I hadn't changed anything. A few weeks ago it just reverted to how it was before
Very rarely it works normally, except it will only see my network (always about 60-70% strength) and not the other 3 in range
Sometimes it will say it is connected but not be able to download anything, and wont even load up the router homepage
Sometimes it connect and run for a few minutes before dropping and not being able to reconnect
Most often it will see my network and all others in range but wont connect
Sometimes it wont see my network at all, but will see others in range
Sometime network manager wont even show wireless up as an option just "nwtwork cable unplugged"
My 2 HDDs are on Mint 17.1, one is 64bit one 32bit. Motherboard is Gigabyte GA-970A-DS3P. I have 3 wifi adapters, one belkin, one realtek, and one "Think Penguin" one I bought especially from USA thinking it would be an easy fix. All have same problem, but all work on my other older PC properly with about 50-60% signal strength (same OS 32 bit)
I have no idea where to start
I am having problems with my Sony Vaio windows
it boots up saying (on a black screen, grey text):
==============================================
Windows Boot Manager
Windows failed to start. A recent hardware or software change might be the cause. To fix the problem:
1. Insert your Windows installation disc and restart your computer.
2. Choose your language settings, and then click "Next."
3. Click "Repair your computer."
If you do not have this disc, contact your system administrator or computer manufacturer for assistance.
Status: 0xc0000225
Info: The boot selection failed because a required device is inaccessible.
Enter=Continue ESC=Exit
==========================================
No matter how many times i tried to restart and even tried F10 repeatedly or Alt-F10 I can't get to any other screen other than the above screen.
So I thought ah to hell with windows on this machine. I'll just install a linux distro because it's for my uncle all he really needs is internet and watch youtube videos/movies.
I have successfully burned and installed Fedora before on other machines using LiveCDs when they had CDs.
This time I tried to burn the DVD since it's it doesn't fit on the CD (I got my ISO from http://download.fedoraproject.org/pu...86_64-21-5.iso)
But when i inserted my DVD and restarted the same black screen appears.
So i have been looking for an older version of Fedora that fits on a CD (I am thinking maybe it'll boot from a CD, not sure though) but can't find any.
Any thoughts or solution to my problem?
Thanks in advance.
I know that there is an option to start a wifi hotspot on Ubuntu when you are connected to the wired network. But when I want to use my wifi connection as a hotspot, Ubuntu asks me to disconnect from my wifi and then create a hotspot, which is of no use.
If you have ever heard about the software called Connectify Hotspot, I want to use that functionality in ubuntu 14.10.
Is there any way to do that? i am excited to know about that
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