Ubuntu help

superfly_2

Hi Folks,
I have a laptop which totally refused to work, I posted earlier and was advised to boot from disc with ubuntu, so that I can access the system to clean up the problems.

I have succesfully booted the system with ubuntu but now have no idea how to access the drives to clean it up. Nothing on the laptop is sacred and therefore can all be wiped, just need to know how to do it.

Please Help

bat999

Hi
When you're running from the Ubuntu Live CD..
If you want to access your hard drive look in 'Places' at the top.
If you just want to wipe and reformat your hard drive use 'Gnome Partition Manager'.
That will be in
System > Admin
or
System > Preferences

gonzo127

as stated everything that was on the computer will be under places, depending on what was wrong with your system in the first place if it is just a virus you can get a 'windows antivirus' in ubuntu so can download that and run it over you hard drive https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Antivirus

superfly_2

Thanks for the help guys, everything looks good.

I have now installed ubuntu and freed up all the space on the disc. The problem now is that I cannot connect to internet. Not sure if the drivers for wireless card have been deleted, and if so how can i tell which card it is so that I can get the drivers???


Also will the laptop find the network automatically or will I have to set it up manually???


Thanks

fwor

You should be able to find out the make and model/chipset of the card simply by opening a terminal session and typing "lspci", which should list all of the PCI devices.

You'll see a line that looks something like:

02:07.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

except of course it will be a wireless rather than a wired one in that example.

Once you know that you can then search for a how-to on how to configure it. If it's a common wireless chipset, the drivers are probably already in the kernel, but if not it's no big deal - most of the how-to's literally go through the process line-by-line, so you can just cut and paste the commands into a terminal prompt.

catflea

Cant help directly as I've forgotten a lot about ubuntu having not been using it for the last 12 months, but check out www.ubuntuforums.org

HO87

Wot he said ^^^^^^^^^^^^

Laptops can be slightly problematic and occasionally need specific fixes - especially if the problem lies with the wireless connection.