<html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/29/2013 08:25 PM, Uriah Heep wrote: </div> <blockquote cite="mid:CACYKHXiA4tGp=jvT-uf2KgkYZq5YOORVNLiafEhx+BLbgEMJNg@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="im">On Friday 29 November 2013 14:33:37 Dennis M wrote: > Thans all for the help, i saw no extra drivers in additional drivers for the > card. How can i see if she uses open or restricted drivers? > I'm learning Linux every day... </div> All drivers are listed by $ lsmod You get information by $ modinfo DRIVERNAME and by <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://startpage.com/" target="_blank">https://startpage.com/</a> and search for the DRIVERNAME You didn't answer this question: <div class="im"> On Friday 29 November 2013 11:15:14 Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Maybe the little switch on the laptop? </div> When a neighbor ask me to help with a Windows laptop, I didn't know about this switch, but I read the Windows message window that mentioned the switch. IOW without knowledge about Windows and without knowing that some or all laptops have such a switch, I could solve the issue within seconds, that's why I just want to ensure, that you checked the button. Regards, Ralf **************************** All laptops have a way to disable wireless, in some such as my lenovo I press F5 and different computers use different buttons so you may have to check computer documentation. </div> <div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 6:58 PM, Ralf Mardorf <<a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kde.lists@yahoo.com" target="_blank">kde.lists@yahoo.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> <div class="im">On Friday 29 November 2013 14:33:37 Dennis M wrote: > Thans all for the help, i saw no extra drivers in additional drivers for the > card. How can i see if she uses open or restricted drivers? > I'm learning Linux every day... </div> All drivers are listed by $ lsmod You get information by $ modinfo DRIVERNAME and by <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://startpage.com/" target="_blank">https://startpage.com/</a> and search for the DRIVERNAME You didn't answer this question: <div class="im"> On Friday 29 November 2013 11:15:14 Kaj Haulrich wrote: > Maybe the little switch on the laptop? </div> When a neighbor ask me to help with a Windows laptop, I didn't know about this switch, but I read the Windows message window that mentioned the switch. IOW without knowledge about Windows and without knowing that some or all laptops have such a switch, I could solve the issue within seconds, that's why I just want to ensure, that you checked the button. Regards, Ralf <div class="HOEnZb"> <div class="h5"> -- kubuntu-users mailing list <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">kubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-users</a> </div> </div> </blockquote> </div> </div> <fieldset class="mimeAttachmentHeader"></fieldset> </blockquote> I don't know if it will help or not, but I wrote the following bash file for my own use. You can change the IP addresses of the cable modem and the router. If you have neither then '#' out the appropriate lines and continue. The checks are out of normal sequence because I wrote this on the fly. You just have to copy-and-paste into a file ending with .sh and make it executable. Tom <div class="moz-signature">-- “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” --Albert Einstein (German born American Physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. Nobel Prize for Physics in 1921. 1879-1955) # Everything below starting with '#!' on the first line, but above the very last line as designated. #! # Bash file to check if network manager is online MY_MODEM=192.168.100.1 MY_ROUTER=192.168.1.1 # check with this if statement to see if Network Manager is online if(nm-online) then printf "Network Manager is online!\n" #exit 0 else printf "Network Manager is offline\n" #exit 1 fi # Now check to see if the router is responding if((ping $MY_ROUTER -c 1 -q) > /dev/null) then printf "The router is responding!\n" else printf "The router is not responding!\n" fi # Now check to see if cable modem is responding if((ping $MY_MODEM -c 1 -q) > /dev/null) then printf "The cable modem is responding!\n" else printf "The cable modem not responding!\n" fi # Now check to see if Ethernet driver is loaded if(lspci -v | egrep Ethernet > /dev/null) then printf "There is an ethernet driver!\n" else printf "There is no ethernet driver!\n" fi #Everything above this line. </div> </body> </html>