[xubuntu-users] Problems after updating 14.04

[David Walland]

Thanks Fred.  I did that for 12.04 and had already tried it this time on
14.04.  I've just tried it again - zilch!  If I get finished fixing the
shed roof, I'll try to make time tomorrow or Tuesday to fit the "new"
secondhand Intel mini-pci board I've just bought.  I just don't have time
to bother with Broadcom.

Regards,

David

PS I still have the black rectangle on my desktop.  No one seems to have
any idea how to deal with that...

On 28 September 2014 12:21, Fred Roller <fredroller66 at gmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi David,
>     I know I am coming in on the tail end of this but thought it worth the
> mention for later try and anyone else working with a broadcom 4311 series
> card... before my mainboard roached I had similar difficulties getting it
> to run.. final solution was very simple in the end and worked everytime so
> might be worth trying:
>
> #from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1997880
> sudo apt-get install linux-firmware-nonfree
>
> HIH,
> Fred
>
>
>
> On 09/20/2014 12:34 PM, David Walland wrote:
>
>     I have been running Xubuntu 12.04 successfully for nearly a year on
> my old Dell Latitude D620.  This sports 2 GB memory and a 100GB SSD.
> Recently I decided to update to 14.04.  Everything went well and for some
> weeks the machine and 14.04 have behaved impeccably, until I ran a normal
> set of updates.
>  I have a Broadcom 4311 wifi card on the machine and had managed to make
> it work following information from the Internet on how to do so.  After
> this update, suddenly the wifi will no longer work and all of the
> instructions to sort it in 14.04, I can find on the internet fail to work,
> including the "official" Ubuntu instructions.  On startup, just after
> starting the machine and before the desktop comes up it flashes for about 1
> second information which is about the problem (well it says "Broadcom" but
> it's gone too quickly for me to read much more).
>
>  How do I hold this screen long enough to read what it says?
>
>  How do I sort out the driver so it works given that every set of
> instructions I've tried have failed?
>
>  Also since the same update I now have a small black rectangle on my
> desktop all the time.  It wasn't there before and I can't find any info on
> the Internet about how to deal with it.  When starting, the desktop loads
> correctly until I enter my password to go into my own area when the black
> area reappears and is always on top.  It's about 8 mm from the LH edge and
> about 2.5 cm down from the screen top.
>
>  Will I have to reset swappiness and the other settings I set up in 12.04
> to speed it up and to protect the SSD?  It's noticeably slower in 14.04.
>
> I'm a fairly new boy at Linux so please treat me gently and explain all
> those esoteric steps which all Linux non-newbies know and I probably won't
> - I'm still following instructions mostly by rote.
>
>
>  Thanks in anticipation,
>
>  David Walland
>
>
>
>
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>
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