Linux help on AspireOne notepad PLEASE!!!

[StrawberriesAndCherries]

I havent been able to connect to the internet for a few months. Has anyone else had this problem and managed to sort it themselves?

PC World couldnt help, so I have emailed a User Group about it, but thought I would ask the clever peeps on here

I go into Settings and try to open Network Centre but it wont open

aaarrrgghh!!

Thanks for the welcome!

Just for me to be clear, if you have done all I asked before, and reached the point where you have the problem you describe, then as I understand it you can get internet access by using the "sudo nm-applet" command, either in Terminal as discussed before, or by using the "Run program" box I referred to on 27/3 at 22.41.

In other words, we're "only" trying to fix the automatic startup, right?

So, several questions/ideas to try and isolate the problem:

1. Is the file "services no wait.desktop" still in the folder "/etc/xdg/autostart"? (Do you know how to use the File Manager?)

1. Can you start Mousepad by itself? (There might be an icon for it somewhere, I can't tell without an Aspire in front of me). If there's no icon, you can type "mousepad" (without the quotes) in Terminal or the Run program box.

1. If that's OK, can you do "sudo mousepad" in Terminal or Run program? If you can, then once Mousepad is running it should have a File menu (top left of its window), and you could use this to find and open "services no wait.desktop"

Tentatively, I will say, "command not found" does tend to come after a typo, so be careful. And do remember that Linux commands are case-sensitive, so for example typing "Mousepad" will get the "not found" message where "mousepad" is fine.

I'm trying to get a copy of the Aspire system to look at, but at the present rate of download it will take two days!!

might also be worth lurking in the Geeky_stuff area, OldAndBold, and for linux questions to go there in future, as there's at least one other linux user (plus Mac users, iPhone users, and others)...

"but the world doesnt know much about it, unfortunately."

That has been changing for a while, but it is still very disappointing that the Microsoft / Windows stranglehold, which was being rejected as far back as the 90s, by local and regional government (and big business) because of the licencing costs, has still continued to have as strong a stranglehold.

It has not really been helped by companies like Dell only half-heartedly offering machines with linux on, companies like Novell doing deals with Microsoft when once Novell, Sun and Oracle and others were the arch enemies of Microsoft, and it doesn't help that despite so many web servers running linux and there being PHP and other cheap / free scripts, people are still mainly wedded to Windows at home (and because of LEAs, in schools in the UK)...

Sorry, I could ramble on for days about how myopic people are when they throw their hands in the air and say they "have to have MS " to do some work, simply because they close their mind to adapting to cope with some alternative software that can do just as good a job.

Thanks OldAndBold have tried all you said - I got a warning about using the "Root of the computer" or something? Anyway I must be doing it wrong so when i have an hour this week am going to start right at the beginning of you advice in March and try it again!!

StrawberriesAndCherries OK, the Root warning is normal, part of the superiority of Linux It means you're trying to do something that, if you get it wrong, could screw up your netbook but we've discussed that before! I'm still not clear at what stage things have gone wrong this time; is it a matter of getting internet access at all, or "just" to do with the automation thereof? Anyway, I look forward to hearing how you get on. (I now have not the exact Acer Aspire system available, but a similar one, so can hopefully help.)

NetworkGuy -- Thanks for the heads up re Geeky_stuff; as a newbie here I'd not found it. Do you run Linux yourself? FYI I alternate openSUSE and Mint-KDE. I said goodbye to Windows in 2002, though I keep my hand in on my wife's laptop.

I've a few machines and have tried Linspire (previously called Lindows), Knoppix and one or two others, like CentOS, but have not decided on any 'for good'...

Have been using VPS web hosting (with CentOS and Fedora) so looking at different versions to see how user friendly (eg installing network tools, new versions of Firefox, Opera, etc) and later so I can use Apache and MySQL, and Perl or PHP 5. (VPS hosting offers a user a 'virtual' server but instead of costing $100 up, from maybe $15 up, with higher fees for more RAM, HD storage and web traffic.)

Started using Berkley 4.2 and 4.3 unix some 18+ years ago, but had no hands-on linux for 12+ years after that.

Ah, a "serious" user (LAMP and all that).

I'm just a retired home office desktop user who likes fiddling. I have used Mandrake as it then was and Ubuntu, but keep coming back to openSUSE as a "grown up" distro, though the Mint family are very user-friendly "out of the box".

I play around with things in VirtualBox from time to time, but though I've acquired the Aspire recovery disk iso I can't get it to install , but Linpus Lite, which I also have, seems similar enough under the hood to be useful in sorting out this particular problem. I hope!

Yes, LAMP for sure (but cannot try serious use from home until I have stable and faster ADSL, so probably will move property first, or use the new 'green' server farms on Iceland so I can have fast links with both Europe and N America.

Linpus often gets mentioned and I plan on downloading an iso off-peak (60 GB allowed during 'peak hours' of 0800-0000 but outside those hours traffic is not counted... used 80+ GB last billing month).

Hi Ntwork Guy and OldandBold - I have another problem this time on my laptop! Am getting so fed up!!

When I try to type anything - even the log in password now - I type one letter and it is like i have pressed ENTER and it enters that one letter, so wont log in. Does that make sense?

If i do a sentence it automatically jumps to the next line so "Hello" looks like

H
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l
l
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any ideas what I can do? I will do a proper thread but thought I would ask you clever chaps first!
Thanks for any help

Ooh ... I think I've seen that before, but I can't for the life of me remember, or find, the solution.

My best thought is that somehow the keyboard setup has been mucked up; something like the Scroll Lock being accidentally activated (but not that specifically, as I've tried it here). Has your DD/DS been fiddling?

Best of luck! I'll keep mulling it over.

Hi OldAndBold,

Yes i think it is something that has accidently been put on too, but have been through all the buttons and programmes I can think of and no luck so far! Have given in and taken it to PC World so am hoping it will be recoverable. Thanks for mulling though