[clue-tech] Re: Grab your coat, it's still on!

[David L. Willson]

$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install synaptic

David L. Willson
Trainer, Engineer, Enthusiast
MCT, MCSE, LPIC-1
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----- "Bill Smith" <wpsmithii at msn.com> wrote:

> My thanks to all who helped get PCLinuxOS installed on my P4 box, and
> who
> helped get my wireless working. I took it home and everything worked
> as
> expected. I now have wireless and a printer in my basement so that I
> can use
> the CAElinux distro. Something funny happened when I got the wireless
> working. Something was downloaded and installed, I had no choice about
> it,
> and now Synaptic does not work. The error message says "command
> Synaptic
> does not exist", any thoughts? Thanks again. Bill Smith
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: clue-tech-bounces at cluedenver.org
> [mailto:clue-tech-bounces at cluedenver.org] On Behalf Of David L.
> Anselmi
> Sent: Sunday, November 15, 2009 6:40 PM
> To: CLUE tech
> Subject: [clue-tech] Re: Grab your coat, it's still on!
> 
> We had a really good installfest, despite the snow and
> disorganization. 
>   There were almost 20 people, thanks to all who came.  Thanks also to
> 
> Lee for bringing some good hot chocolate and to David Willson who ran
> 
> Free Lunch, dodged hecklers, and added to the installfest equipment
> fund.
> 
> I made it Microcenter afterward and picked up the PS2 to USB adapters
> we 
> need, as well as DVD blanks.  So I'll start keeping DVD ISOs now. 
> Patch 
> cables were too expensive so I made a couple of those from stuff I had
> 
> left over.  If you find other things that would make your time go 
> farther let me know.
> 
> I think we got the wireless mouse working, despite a BIOS upgrade and
> 
> who knows what else Maxwell had to do.  Dang he was persistent.  And 
> he's brand new in the area so it was cool he looked us up and came
> out.
> 
> There was a box that was having trouble after a new motherboard and 
> video card failed to work with the old configuration.  That all got 
> cleaned up I think.  Would have been nice to have Collins to help with
> 
> the sidux part.
> 
> There was some LFS going on and the usual other driver hunting.  I
> think 
> I got farther with the DeVry wireless that's never worked for 
> wpa_supplicant (adding wep_tx_keyidx=0 seems to help).  But I still 
> couldn't get an IP address :-(
> 
> There was also a round of Ticket to Ride, air hockey, ping pong, and 
> other amusements.
> 
> And finally, thanks to DeVry for continuing to be generous hosts.
> 
> Dave
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