Ubuntu 10.04 ethernet controller issue - Dell Optiplex

After the installation of Ubuntu 10.04 on Dell optiplex 790, we found that the Ethernet controller is not working on it.


After some research I found that there are no Ethernet driver e1000e was installed as there was a bug in that & resolved very soon.

The driver e1000e installation steps as follows.

1. Download the driver e1000e.
2. unzip the package.
3. Make a cd to the src folder inside the e1000e folder.
4. execute make command before that ensure gcc installed.
5. execute make install command.
6. execute modprobe e1000e to add the module.
7. Now you should see the network should be working fine.

 We found this issue only in 10.04 as we were using this  distribution version frequently. We have only tested this on Ubuntu 10.04.

Happy Networking...Enjoy... :)

Backup SVN Repository

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $svn_repo = "/svn/reponame";
my $bkup_dir = "/var/backups/svn_backup/backup_reponame";
my $bkup_file = "reponame_backup-";


$bkup_file = $bkup_file . `date +%Y_%m_%d_%H_%M`;
chomp $bkup_file;
my $youngest = `svnlook youngest $svn_repo`;
chomp $youngest;


my $dump_command = "svnadmin -q dump $svn_repo > $bkup_dir/$bkup_file";
print "\nDumping Subversion repo $svn_repo to $bkup_file...\n";
print `$dump_command`;
print "Backing up through revision $youngest... \n";
print "\nCompressing dump file...\n";
print `bzip2 -9 $bkup_dir/$bkup_file\n`;
chomp $bkup_file;
my $zipped_file = $bkup_dir . "/" . $bkup_file . ".bz2";
print "\nCreated $zipped_file\n";

Reliance Netconnect and Ubuntu / Debian

Hello Readers,

Oh!! Yeah, Finally reliance netconnect connected & started working on ubuntu 10.04 with easy simple steps followed to configure it.

• Search the package usb-modeswitch & usb-modeswitch-data

root@cyclotron:~# apt-cache search usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data

•  Install the package usb-modeswitch & usb-modeswitch-data

root@cyclotron:~# apt-get install usb-modeswitch usb-modeswitch-data

• Now follow the easy installation steps to get connected.

• Systems --> Preferences --> Network Connection

• Select Mobile Broadband --> Add --> Select your provider country --> Select your provider --> Confirm Settings

• Now Enter the Phone Number in the Username box & Phone Number in the Password and Apply the settings.

Now you should get connected to the Reliance Netconnect. 

Enjoy Netconnect. :-)

How To : Install firefox 4 (stable) on Ubuntu

Hello Folks,

If you want to install & enjoy firefox 4 on your Ubuntu Machine / Debian Machine follow the simple steps.

• apt-get remove firefox 
• dpkg --purge firefox

Now add the below Firefox Stable PPA :-
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable

• apt-get update
• apt-get install firefox

The installation may take sometime, After the installation you check the new Firefox 4 installed and also you download Firefox 4.

Enjoy the browsing with new Firefox 4 with great features in it. :-)







Pure-ftpd-mysql : Unable to start a standalone server

Hello All,

After restarting ftp server found that the ftp server is not running, Checked the system log of the server & found the following error.

pure-ftpd: (?@?) [ERROR] Unable to start a standalone server: [Invalid argument]

In debian etch 4, The pure-ftpd-mysql does not have link to pure-ftpd from pure-ftpd-mysql by default. Apply the link by force and restart the service.

ln -sf /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd-mysql /usr/sbin/pure-ftpd

Enjoy. :-)

 

HOW TO : Convert .flv to .mp3 in Ubuntu / Debian

Hello,

Converting .flv or mp3 has become so easy in Linux box within few minutes. Just thought of sharing it.

Installation of FFmpeg on Debian OR Ubuntu

• root:~#apt-get install ffmpeg

Converting .flv to .mp3 

• ffmpeg -i filename.flv -acodec copy output.mp3

Enjoy. :-)

Update-grub : Dual Boot - Grub Load

Hi,

 From last 2days I was trying to upgrade my laptop from Debian Lenny 5.0 to Debian Squeeze 6.0, As there was some problem with my internet connection I was not able to do it.

After 24hrs I was able to connect to internet. Now my machine is upgraded with Debian Squeeze 6.0 finally and thought of sharing a small issue faced with boot loader after the upgradation.

When upgradation was proceeding it asked to select the partition to install the boot-loader. It showed the two partition /dev/sda (Ubuntu partition) & /dev/sda2 (Debian Partition) as I was not sure, installed the boot-loader on /dev/sda. After the complication the laptop rebooted and I was not able to find the Ubuntu 10.04 in my grub. I found only the debian kernel boot loader. After some try I figured it out, if it needs to updated run the command update-grub.  Run this command on live machine. Also check where the master boot record is pointed and run the update command.

By this the grub will read the partition table re-generate the grub.cfg as below.

cyclotron:~# update-grub
Generating grub.cfg ...
Found background image: /usr/share/images/desktop-base/desktop-grub.png
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-5-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-2-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-2-686
Found linux image: /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-686
Found initrd image: /boot/initrd.img-2.6.26-1-686
Found Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS (10.04) on /dev/sda5
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