Ubuntu Notes and How-Tos

Saturday, December 17, 2005

HP LaserJet 4L settings





Friday, December 16, 2005

Getting the Wi-Fi LED working in HP Pavilion dv1000

Ubuntu Breezy (2.6.12 kernel)

1) Get the pci address of the network controller:



2) And then:
$ su -
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led

3) Put this inside /etc/rcS.d/S50local so that it lights up everytime you boot:

  #!/bin/sh
 echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led


4) Make it executable:

# chmod +x /etc/rcS.d/S50local


Note: To enable it to light up back again after resuming from a sleep (suspend-to-RAM), add this to /etc/acpi/resume.sh:

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

KDevelop icons don't appear in the Applications>Programming menu



1) Open up smeg --it's in Applications>System Tools>Applications Menu Editor
2) Get to the KDevelop's entry in the (smeg) editor then right-click and choose "Properties":



3) The Entry Editor pops up, click on Icon, then Press Ctrl+L and then type this in and click Open:



4) Then look for the directory named "apps", click it and then scroll down and look for the icon. And then click it:



5) Done.