Hi all, it’s been “awhile.” Have been running Ubuntu, and the new “improved” Unity caused me to return here. I won’t be running Unity, thank you very much. Hope you folks are not planning to force it upon us.
Loaded 11.4 on a new Asus U56E
A few issues
1 In Firefox, scrolling up/ down the page with the mouse “in the page” causes random reload of previous page. I BELIEVE using the side scroll bar does not
I found this thread, don’t understand some of it. What/ do I have KVM?
2 I’m no Linux expert. How do I probe the wired ethernet device and get it working? Wireless works, unsecured, I have not tried securing it
3 Anyone have ideas on configuring the software based Fn keys on this laptop? Fn/F2 for toggle wireless, not working. Same for Fn/F9, for toggle touchpad off/ on. I like using an external mouse. Don’t believe the speaker volume keys work, either
Whether that happens to me, depends on which mouse I am using.
What happens, is that if the mouse has a light touch, then while using the scroll wheel I can accidently push a bit too hard. That pastes the copy buffer (clibboard data) into firefox, and it loads whatever link was in that buffer. Or, if what is in the buffer is bad for a url, it gives me an error message about bad url. If I am in an edit box (such as in this forum), then the middle click instead pastes the buffer content into the text box.
I’m guessing that is what you are seeing. You can probably train yourself to be more careful in mouse usage. I’m not sure if there is a setting to change how that works.
I’m using KDE, which is new to me, I had been using Ubuntu/ Gnome
It’s late tonight, I’ll play with the touchpad versus the mouse some tomorrow. I’ve already tried two other mouse(s) no difference. This mouse works just fine on two other machines
This is not a problem with the physical mouse, read the link I posted on someone else’s similar problem. Using an external mouse, which I have been using, and switched with others as well as switching this mouse to other machines. Mouse works fine on other machines.
Thank you. I found that thread and a couple of related ones. Unfortunately, evidently Atheros has been overtaken by Qualcom, and the link to the download is no longer directly active. I found a couple of other links which require a login to access, have not yet read through it all.
I’ll search around about a kernal update. If I can find detailed destructions, I’ll give it a shot. I’m not very “deep” into this install yet, so starting over in case of a FU is not a big deal.
Thanks for the help thus far. That update CHANGED things, but now what I have is WIRED ethernet and can NOT get the wireless to hook. The wireless shows that it is activated, but I get no action from the browser. I have not had time to do much with it today
I’m also having related problems on the used Thinkpad T61. Same type of problem. Wired works, wireless does not.
I did buy a couple of hard drives today, so I “can play.”
Sorry I haven’t been back, been busy, been experimenting with different distros, as well as Gnome/ KDE. I’m back with the original KDE with the updated kernal.
The whatever software it’s called on the taskbar for the network shows wireless active but it won’t work. Wired now DOES work. Somewhere I read a post in which someone thought the network configuration software was the problem.
taskbar for the network shows wireless active but it won’t work
Which probably means you have a configuration problem.
Saying it doesn’t work, isn’t very useful. If it’s active as you say, what we need to know is if you are able to enter your wireless details and OR use the Scan function to find your Access point. What encryption are you using… etc…