A chronological documentation test project, nothing serious, really!
This is a short HOWTO on disabling IP version 6 support on your ethernet devices like eth0 on Ubuntu 11.10. I guess you can do this on earlier version of Ubuntu as well. Add the following line to the end of the file /etc/sysctl.conf (as root or use sudo) net.ipv6.conf.all.disable_ipv6 = 1 Run the following […]
This post is a short howto to fix/workaround the problem with low volume in some Ubuntu 11.04 installations. The fix for me was to open a console window (as the user I’m logged in with) and start the alsamixer # alsamixer You will then see the alsamixer window. Use the left/right arrow keys and choose […]
This post describes how you can change from the Unity Desktop environment that is the default desktop environment to the Gnome Desktop in Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta. The desktop environment I like to use is the desktop named Ubuntu Classic and you can change to this desktop by going to (or searching for) System […]
A short description on how to change the console language in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server but it should work on other Debian flavours as well. # dpkg-reconfigure console-data
This post is a short description on how to enable the wireless interface on my HP 8540p in Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 1 (Natty Narwal). A little information about the wireless interface # lspci … 44:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35) … # lspci -n … 44:00.0 0280: 8086:4239 (rev 35) … […]