BT Homehub screws up networking

A BT homehub firmware upgrade stopped both the wireless and wired connections working on my laptop.

Wireless has been retrieved by acquiring a USB wireless thingummy which uses n wireless stuff. This just works.

Wired can be fixed by following the instructions in this post and setting an IP address for the connection to use...

right click on network manager in the notification area at the top and click on 'Edit Connections'

Click on the Wireless or Wired tab as appropriate, click on the connection you want and click on Edit

Under IPv4 settings click Add to enter this information:

IP Address - 192.168.1.xx (last 2/3 digits any available address on your network)

Subnet Mask 255.255.255.0

Gateway - 192.168.1.254

DNS Server - 192.168.1.254.

Now up to 11.04

Smooth upgrade to 11.04

Issues:

• Ongoing conflict between broadcom drivers for wireless and ethernet card mean neither is working



• Can't have more than 3 windows maximised at any one time - next window appears blank.

Fix for getting notifications of thunderbird messages in the top right messages area.

After some more research figured it out what I needed to do.

Edit or add a file in usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/

I choose to edit a current file since I wanted evolution to not be there.

Opened file usr/share/indicators/messages/applications/evolution

Changed the line usr/share/applications/evolution.desktop to usr/share/applications/thunderbird.desktop (paths may vary depending on what you're trying to launch)

Save file and renamed it to thunderbird (remember I only renamed because I choose to edit the evolution file).

Logout or restart. ( I restarted, but I imagine logging out would give the same result)

The indicator dropdown should now only have what you want in it.

Cheers.

From - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1750374

Stuttering DVD

Laptop now upgraded to Ubuntu 10.10 (maverick meerkat)

DVD playback stuttering.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1605401&highlight=dvd+stuttering&page=2
post 20 -

To change the settings, run "gstreamer-properties", click the Video tab
and change the appropriate settings.

You may have set "ximagesink" ("X Window System (No Xv)") as video-output.
This means, that your cpu is doing all the work. Change it to "xvimagesink"
("X Window System (X11/XShm/Xv)") in order to let your graphics card do the work.

This didn't really do anything. My setting was 'default'

Next Post...

http://ubuntu-ky.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=9961868&postcount=29

Re: Choppy video in Maverick
Found a solution on this thread and it seams to have fixed the problem for me.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1588889

In the terminal open the /etc/pulse/default.pa file

Code:

Sudo gedit /etc/pulse/default.pa

In the text file search for the line below:

Code:

load-module module-udev-detect

edit the line to add 'tsched=0' to the end of the line like below:

Code:

load-module module-udev-detect tsched=0

Save and reboot

What actually worked

System>Preferences>Appearance - No desktop effects