I recently got Ubuntu, and it's great, except for these two things every time the internet is disconnected or I put it on suspended mode it I have to go and manually configure it which some times takes ages, any way to fix this?

 

 

 

and also firefox won't play any sounds, I uninstalled and reinstalled flash player to no effect. I have searched through the preferences, but have not found anything odd

 

 

 

I am running Ubuntu 8.4.0 Desktop LTD and also downloaded all the updates last night, so I am guessing that my drivers are up to date, right? and everything else has sound, so I don't understand it.

Specs of the PC/Laptop would be nice.

 

How are you connecting to the net?

 

When you say firefox isn't making any sounds does that include embedded music?

Laptop Specs:

 

 

 

1.73 Ghz Intel CPU

 

2GB RAM

 

Windows Vista SP1 and Ubuntu 8.04 OS (dual booting, hard drive was partitioned by Wubi, once I know how to run WINE fully I'll be removing Vista)

 

 

 

don't have much time to write anythign else, and the only audio it seems to be playing is the embedded music in myspace

For the sound in firefox, going into synaptic and installing flashplugin-nonfree is what worked for me.

Oh, I see everything clearly as far as the hibernation goes.

 

 

 

Wubi, while a great beginners tool to Ubuntu, won't let you hibernate. I haven't worked with it personally, but from reading reports of it from 7.10 until now, my guess is that it won't let you hibernate because there is no swap partition. Again, I don't know if that theory is true, but I can confirm that Wubi won't hibernate for now.

 

 

 

As far as the sound goes, flashplugin-nonfree should work.

thanks for fixing the sound issue, I reinstalled it and it now works perfectly :)

 

 

 

and the issue isn't really with the hibernating, it is with the fact that it will say it is connected to the network, yet it isn't and it is difficult to make it connect

Run an 'ifconfig' command and post the output of that here. Then, if you please, run an 'iwconfig' and post that here, too.

 

 

 

Lastly, I'll have you run 'lspci', and post that here, too. That'll help figure out what your ethernet/wireless chipset is.

Run an 'ifconfig' command and post the output of that here. Then, if you please, run an 'iwconfig' and post that here, too.

 

 

 

Lastly, I'll have you run 'lspci', and post that here, too. That'll help figure out what your ethernet/wireless chipset is.

 

 

 

ifconfig

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1d:09:57:7a:b3  

         UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

         Interrupt:16 



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:1458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

         TX packets:1458 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

         collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

         RX bytes:72900 (71.1 KB)  TX bytes:72900 (71.1 KB)



wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:1f:3c:5a:42:f0  

         inet addr:192.168.0.193  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

         inet6 addr: fe80::21f:3cff:fe5a:42f0/64 Scope:Link

         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

         RX packets:77673 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

         TX packets:54838 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

         RX bytes:101294920 (96.6 MB)  TX bytes:7296205 (6.9 MB)



wmaster0  Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-1F-3C-5A-42-F0-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  

         UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

         RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

         TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

         collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

         RX bytes:0 (0.0 B)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

 

 

 

iwconfig

lo        no wireless extensions.



eth0      no wireless extensions.



wmaster0  no wireless extensions.



wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"trusty"  Nickname:""

         Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point: 00:15:E9:E3:F3:CF   

         Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power=27 dBm   

         Retry min limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr=2346 B   

         Power Management:off

         Link Quality=81/100  Signal level=-53 dBm  Noise level=-88 dBm

         Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0

         Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

 

 

 

and Ispci is not a valid command

Well it looks like your wireless IS connected, but I'll need to know what your wireless chipset is before I can finish up. lspci is a valid command; I just ran it and it gave me the information that I needed to know.

 

 

 

If it's not installed, that's kinda bizarre -- didn't think that it wouldn't have it. If it's not there, just rattle off the Wireless chipset/card you're using, if you can remember it offhand.

Well it looks like your wireless IS connected, but I'll need to know what your wireless chipset is before I can finish up. lspci is a valid command; I just ran it and it gave me the information that I needed to know.

 

 

 

If it's not installed, that's kinda bizarre -- didn't think that it wouldn't have it. If it's not there, just rattle off the Wireless chipset/card you're using, if you can remember it offhand.

 

 

 

ya, it's connected now, but if I switched the modem off then on then it wouldn't be connected, and I would have to manually fix it up, which is annoying