Another quick note just in case anyone is searching for PNG EXIF information in DigiKam. I’ve just found that officially, PNG does not support EXIF data, google it. (Another waste of time). I’ve found that most of the time, it seems to work. I’m not sure if this is just an internal DigiKam thing, since [...]
Latest ubuntu ball-ache started when I wanted my wireless network to use DHCP and the ethernet to use a static address.
I’ve had major problems getting the newest ATI drivers, both proprietary and open source. Black screens, freezes, everything.
The solution (so far) is to use an older ATI Catalyst driver. I have tested up to 9.12 to be working. Download, sudo sh -i ***.run, sudo aticonfig –initial -f, restart, sudo amdcccle, to setup. Done.
I tried to get the open-source drivers working, but it just messed things up. So I used this guide to install the propriatey drivers.
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Update: As of Ubuntu 8.10, my Buffalo adaptor was recognised instantly and WPA2 works out of the box. Well done ubuntu!
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Background:
I am using a Buffalo WLI-U2-KG54 USB wireless device and the default linux USB driver (the rt2500usb) would not support WPA encryption and it would not work at all. After days of searching through other [...]