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[teapot]

Yep that icon is missing.

lsusb
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 1286:2001 Marvell Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 046d:c50e Logitech, Inc. MX-1000 Cordless Mouse Receiver
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 

iwconfig eth0                 
eth0      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"" 
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated   
          Bit Rate:0 kb/s   Tx-Power=13 dBm   
          Retry limit:8   RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B   
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=96/100  Signal level=0 dBm  Noise level=-96 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:7513
          Tx excessive retries:17  Invalid misc:120   Missed beacon:0


ifconfig eth0
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:17:c4:15:2d:ed 
          inet6 addr: fe80::217:c4ff:fe15:2ded/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:111 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:6438 (6.2 KB)  TX bytes:788 (788.0 B)

Module                  Size  Used by
mtdblock                5216  0
mtd_blkdevs             8800  1 mtdblock
loop                   17284  0
usb8xxx                17696  0
libertas              178392  1 usb8xxx
ieee80211              32072  1 libertas
ieee80211_crypt         5632  1 ieee80211
serio_raw               6596  0
joydev                  9472  0
cs5535_gpio             4708  0
mousedev               11160  1

ps axuww | grep Network
root     1146  0.0  0.8  20988  2096 ?        Ssl  13:09   0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.pid
root     1160  0.0  0.5   3436  1308 ?        Ss   13:09   0:00 /usr/sbin/NetworkManagerDispatcher --pid-file /var/run/NetworkManager/NetworkManagerDispatcher.pid
root     1573  0.0  0.2   1696   500 pts/0    R+   13:15   0:00 grep Network

In terminal run nm-applet -- does the icon appear on the panel?

[teapot]

Just installed Firefox 3 release. Works fine.

[teapot]

Boot splash screen with progress bar now works -- usplash (default on Ubuntu) does not understand XO framebuffer modes, however splashy does.

It will be included in the next release along with other changes.

[AppleIIGuy]

Gives me an error about security policies in the configuration file keep it from running
but if I do sudo nm-applet it runs and connects fine..

[teapot]

Gives me an error about security policies in the configuration file keep it from running
but if I do sudo nm-applet it runs and connects fine..

I see.

There should be a line in /etc/PolicyKit/PolicyKit.conf file (within config tag):

<define_admin_auth_group="admin"/>

If it's not there, add it before </config> .

And the user "olpc" should belong to that group. If it doesn't, create the group and add the user:

addgroup admin
addgroup olpc admin

nm-applet should work for olpc user after that.

[AppleIIGuy]

Works Thanks!

[kemikal]

Teapot, shoot me a PM when you've done your next release and I'll put it up on my website for download too.

I've just been testing the 8.1.1 release since my SD got corrupted.
http://www.olpcnews.com/software/sugar/wanted_software_testers.html

[Eddie Owens]

Using Xubuntu Hardy, I am trying to use the command "make".   However I get the response, "Command not found".

So I do apt-get update and apt-get install and apt-get make, and get messages such as "invalid operation make".

I could not find the "make" command with updated Synaptic either.

What am I doing wrong?

[teapot]

Using Xubuntu Hardy, I am trying to use the command "make".   However I get the response, "Command not found".

So I do apt-get update and apt-get install and apt-get make, and get messages such as "invalid operation make".

I could not find the "make" command with updated Synaptic either.

What am I doing wrong?

Not using aptitude install build-essential

(aptitude install make or apt-get install make would work, too, however then the rest of the minimal build environment would be still missing).

[Eddie Owens]

Teapot, somehow I am not getting there.

I did "sudo aptitude install build-essential".  Lots of messages scrolled by, some libraries were removed, but in the end, "make" was still not there.

I did "aptitude install make" and got back "no candidate version found for make".

I did "sudo apt-get install make" and got back "Package make is not available, but is referred to by another package.  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.  E: Package has no installation candidate".

Where else can I get this command?  Or is there an alternative command?

thank you.

[teapot]

Teapot, somehow I am not getting there.

I did "sudo aptitude install build-essential".  Lots of messages scrolled by,

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, STOP REPORTING ANYTHING AS "LOTS OF MESSAGES". Those are not "lots of messages" any more than my responses to you are "lots of words teapot wrote". They are actual diagnostics. Stop ignoring them. They actually describe what is going on. I can't find it out anything at all without knowing what they said.

some libraries were removed, but in the end, "make" was still not there.

If something was REMOVED when you ran it, something was seriously wrong with your system. Likely you had to run sudo aptitude update before it, or press 'u' in aptitude running interactively if you didn't do so before, however it still wouldn't cause anything to be removed.

Upgrade your system (sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude dist-upgrade ), and if it fails, reinstall.

I did "aptitude install make" and got back "no candidate version found for make".

I did "sudo apt-get install make" and got back "Package make is not available, but is referred to by another package.  This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source.  E: Package has no installation candidate".

Where else can I get this command?  Or is there an alternative command?

No, there isn't. If it does not work (and not, say, tells you that it can't reach the Ubuntu server), your system is broken, and there is no point "trying" anything, you have to bring it into a non-broken state. And since you have given a completely unusable description of what happened, I can only recommend you to reinstall from scratch.

[Eddie Owens]

Teapot,

I do not ignore the messages or consider them unimportant.  The "lots of messages" that I failed to report scrolled off the top of the screen faster than I could read them.

At the present, when I do a "sudo aptitude update" I get =>
   Hit http://security.ubuntu.com hardy-security Release.gpg
   Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy Release.gpg
   Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates Release.gpg
                and 18 other hits for restricted sources and packages, universe
                sources  packages, multiverse sources and packages then finally
   Reading package lists...done
        <exit to shell prompt> 

and then when I follow with "sudo aptitude install build-essential" I get =>
   Reading package lists...done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information...done
   Reading extended state information
   Initializing package states...done
   Building tag database...done
   No candidate version found for build-essential
   No candidate version found for build-essential
   The following packages have been kept back:
      libglib2.0-data
   0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded
   Need to get 0B of archives.  After unpacking 0B will be used.
   Writing extended state information...done
   Reading package lists...done
   Building dependency tree
   Reading state information...done
   Reading extended state information
   Initialing package states...done
   Building tag database...done
   <exit to shell prompt>
           

So do you think that this means my system is broken, and the best thing to do is a fresh install?   

[teapot]

Are you, by any chance, using a wireless hotspot that returns login screen when you access anything through HTTP, so aptitude gets HTML pages when trying to download package lists?

Because build-essential package is right there, on the same site where your box supposedly downloaded package lists from:

http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz , http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/main/binary-i386/Packages.bz2 , and http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/b/build-essential/build-essential_11.1_i386.deb

[Eddie Owens]

Teapot:

I connect at home using a Netgear wireless router using WPA-PSK, and generally sign on once with my password at the beginning of a session, and the system does not ask me for a password again.  Surfing the internet seems to go without problem.

Just to check, I did a fresh boot into Hardy, with a USB-to-Ethernet connection in place, went to a terminal, and did a
 
            sudo aptitude update

which went to the same 20 or so ubuntu/hardy/security/update sites and read the package lists.

On doing a

            sudo sudo aptitude install build-essential

the output was exactly the same as described before.

And again, "make" or "sudo make" => "command not found".

It's looking more and more like a total re-install is going to be required.
         

[teapot]

Teapot:

I connect at home using a Netgear wireless router using WPA-PSK, and generally sign on once with my password at the beginning of a session, and the system does not ask me for a password again.  Surfing the internet seems to go without problem.

Just to check, I did a fresh boot into Hardy, with a USB-to-Ethernet connection in place, went to a terminal, and did a
 
            sudo aptitude update

which went to the same 20 or so ubuntu/hardy/security/update sites and read the package lists.

If you run sudo aptitude dist-upgrade after that, does it give you a sane-looking list of packages to upgrade and download/update them?

On doing a

            sudo sudo aptitude install build-essential

the output was exactly the same as described before.

And again, "make" or "sudo make" => "command not found".

It's looking more and more like a total re-install is going to be required.
         

Looks like something got seriously screwed up, so it's a good idea to reinstall.