I had trouble getting my Dell XPS M1530 track pad/touch pad to work when I updated the BIOS from A07 to A09. However, it is fairly an easy fix. Edit your ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ file with: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst Then add: i8042.nomux=1 at the end of the ‘kernel’ line. It may look like below: title Ubuntu 8.04, …
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Accessing Remote Drive in Linux via SSHFS
There may be a case where you may want to access a certain directory or drive on a remote machine, and mount it to your local PC. For example, I have a headless CentOS box running Apache where all of my web application codes are sitting. Editing those web application codes are a nightmare when …
Guest-Host Connection in Vmware through Firestarter
Following my previous post on VPNC, after modifying the user-pre file in Firestarter, it somehow screws-up my guest-host connections in Vmware. The host, running on Ubuntu 8.04, no longer be able to connect to it guests, and vice-versa. The following is what I did to make the connection works. I had to post this up …
VPN Connection in Ubuntu using VPNC
I’ve been using VPNC in my Ubuntu to access my company’s VPN for quite some time now. The story is, I’ve tried using Cisco VPN, but it will only get me as far as connecting to the VPN server. When I’m trying to access the company’s intranet, I’ll get a “page not found” error slapped …
