How to kill Windows 8

  • 04 Feb, 2013

Last month i bought a new Laptop. My old HP died.  The new Laptop comes with Win 8.

I try to use Win 8 but i think it was not so friendly and honestly it is time to have a Linux Desktop.

I chose Ubuntu and the setup, on the Toshiba P875-S7310,  was easy and fast,  after i  installed an SSD HD and  more 8 GB RAM.
The only thing that did not work was the LAN.

How to solve the problem :

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential wget http://www.orbit-lab.org/kernel/compat-wireless-3-stable/v3.5/compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2 tar -xf compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc.tar.bz2 cd compat-wireless-3.5.1-1-snpc ./scripts/driver-select alx make sudo make install sudo modprobe alx

Very nice Ubuntu 12 on my laptop  :-)

PrevNext

Related Posts

Error when run dnf install rpm-build

  • 31 Mar, 2025

I was installing the IBM MQ Server on a linux box yesterday. I got the error bellow: \root@gateway MQServer\ dnf install rpm-build
Updating Subscription Management repositories.
Instana 14 B/s | 20 B 00:01
Errors during downloading metadata for repository 'instana-agent': Status code: 401 for https://:[email protected]/agent/rpm/generic/x86\64/repodata/repomd.xml (IP: 34.253.98.124)
Error: Failed to download metadata for repo 'instana-agent': Cannot download repomd.xml: Cannot download repodata/repomd.xml: All mirrors were tried
Solution: Delete the Instana Agent repo: rm /etc/yum.repos.d/Instana-Agent.repo
Clear dnf cache: dnf clean all
run dnf i

Error when run dnf install rpm-buildRead More

How to Install watch on macOS Sequoia

  • 06 Feb, 2025

The watch command is a useful utility in Unix-like systems that allows you to execute a command periodically and display its output. However, macOS does not come with watch pre-installed. If you're running macOS Sequoia and want to use watch, follow the steps below to install it. Recently i switch my mabook to a new MacBook Pro M2 and try to use the command to watch some openshift logs and i got the following result: !(data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA6gAAAC6CAYAAACjt2AlAAAAAXNSR0IArs4c6QAAAJBlWElmTU0AKgAAAAgABgEGAAMAAAABAAIAAAESAAMAAAABAAEAAAEaAAUAAAABAAAAVgEbAAUAAAABAAAAXgEoAAMAAAABAAIAAIdpAAQAAAABAAAAZgAAAAAAAACQAAAAAQAAAJAAAAABAAOgAQADAAAAAQABAACgAgAEAAAAAQAAA6igAwAEAAAAA

How to Install watch on macOS SequoiaRead More

rsync is faster than scp to copy files between machines

  • 31 Dec, 2024

rsync is generally faster than scp for copying files, especially when transferring a large amount of data or syncing directories. Here's why: 1. Incremental Transfers - rsync: Only transfers the parts of files that have changed, rather than the entire file. This makes subsequent transfers much faster. - scp: Always transfers the entire file, even if only a small part of it has changed. 2. Compression - rsync: Supports compression during the transfer (using the -z option), which reduces the amount of data sent over the network. - scp: Also supports compression (using the -C option), but it doesn't have the same efficiency in skipping unchanged data. 3. Resume Support - rsync: Can

rsync is faster than scp to copy files between machinesRead More