[Bug 1474534] Re: Screen Energy Saving and Dim Screen do not work reliably

2016-08-10 Thread William Scheidegger
I recently upgraded from Kubuntu 14.04 to 16.04 and I am now also having this problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1474534 Title: Screen Energy Saving and Dim Screen do not work re

[Bug 1474534] Re: Screen Energy Saving and Dim Screen do not work reliably

2016-08-10 Thread William Scheidegger
This may need filed against: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/powerdevil -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1474534 Title: Screen Energy Saving and Dim Screen do not work reliably To

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-09-28 Thread William Scheidegger
@Andy Would you post the output of the following commands: lsb_release -rd uname -a lspci -vnn | grep -A 1 Wireless -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621265 Title: Slow

[Bug 812554] Re: Firefox 5 for Ubuntu 1.0 issues undefined command to printer; page setup reverts to Any Printer for Portable Documents

2011-10-21 Thread William Scheidegger
I was having trouble with this previously, but was trying to put out to many other fires to investigate it. This has now bubbled to the top. I am having this problem with: $lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 11.04 Release:

[Bug 812554] Re: Firefox 5 for Ubuntu 1.0 issues undefined command to printer; page setup reverts to Any Printer for Portable Documents

2011-10-21 Thread William Scheidegger
I forgot to mention I am experiencing this with the following printer: http://localhost:631/printers/Brother-HL-5250DN-series Description: Brother HL-5250DN series Location:Home Driver: Brother HL-5250DN BR-Script3 (grayscale, 2-sided printing) Connection: dnssd://Brother

[Bug 782973] Re: virtfs isn't enabled

2012-08-03 Thread William Scheidegger
I just started working with the SPICE interface and ran into this issue with the qemu-kvm-spice package on a 12.04 Precise Pangolin box. This is just another issue with that package in Precise. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to U

[Bug 812554] Re: Firefox 5 for Ubuntu 1.0 issues undefined command to printer; page setup reverts to Any Printer for Portable Documents

2012-08-03 Thread William Scheidegger
I recently updated to a fresh install of Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin and the problem has gone away. I don't know if there was something lingering from a previous upgraded install or if 12.04 just fixed the issue, but I am working now. -- You received this bug notification because you are a memb

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2012-06-24 Thread William Scheidegger
It has been some time since I posted here, but I finally took the time to update to 12.04. I did a clean install and had the same slow Wi-Fi problem out of the box. So I can confirm that Bug #621265 affects Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin too. I then did the same change documented previously of remov

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-09-30 Thread William Scheidegger
@Andy It looks like my instructions may not work for your subsystem, 8086:1020. Nobody that posted success and published their output from the lspci command shows that version. Post #278 had succes with that subsystem and the kernel from #270. @Sarim Glad to hear they are working for somebody.

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-07-17 Thread William Scheidegger
I upgraded to 2.6.38-10 the day it came out and I didn't have any trouble with it. Last night I did a BIOS update on my Acer Aspire 5920 and then this resurfaced. I can also confirm that by backing out to 2.6.38-8 also works for me. Upon reading the release notes, there seems to have been several

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-03-19 Thread William Scheidegger
I just updated to the latest Ubuntu kernel and had the same slow connection again. --- From http://www.bandwidthplace.com/ Download Speed: 1149 kbps (143.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 637 kbps (79.6 KB/sec transfer rate) Sat 19 Mar 2011 10:02:36 AM CST I downloaded the latest

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-03-03 Thread William Scheidegger
I just updated to the latest Ubuntu kernel and had the same slow connection. I then went and downloaded the latest compat-wireless source from: http://wireless.kernel.org/download/compat-wireless-2.6/compat- wireless-2011-03-03.tar.bz2 After following the same rough instructions I posted in #298,

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-03-06 Thread William Scheidegger
Just to update this after, my speeds are still stable several days of continuous operation. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621265 Title: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg --

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-03-06 Thread William Scheidegger
@CarlosRuiz_globalqss This is deffinately a similar solution. If you are still not noticing speeds that you would expect, there are several reasons that could be causing it. I was batteling my WAN connection during testing, so I always had to double check with a machine running a different OS. If

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-09-03 Thread William Scheidegger
My ISP finally got my connectivity back to at least to half of what I am paying for so I was able to do some more testing. The results were not favorable, and the compat-wireless-2011-08-27 is still slow again. I was able to recover back to true speeds with compat-wireless-2011-03-18 after performi

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-09-03 Thread William Scheidegger
Oops. Fix the tar and cd commands to use the 2011-03-18 instead of 2011-08-27 in my previous post. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621265 Title: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945a

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-09-04 Thread William Scheidegger
I wrote a shell script to download and build each compat-wireless version. I have attached the script for anyone that wants to see it. For maintenance purposes, the script removes the downloaded .bz2 files and any decompressed version that failed to compile with my current setup. I reviewed the log

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-08-30 Thread William Scheidegger
I just updated to the latest Ubuntu kernel and had the same slow connection that everyone else is reporting. I downloaded the latest compat-wireless source and followed the same rough instructions I posted in #298: $ mkdir -p ~/Downloads/compat-wireless $ cd !$ $ wget http://wireless

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-17 Thread William Scheidegger
I have been following this for some time and with the great improvements I have been reading I thought it was finally time to give it a try. I too downloaded the kernel from #270 and experienced no change in download speed. $ lspci -vnn |grep -A 1 Wireless 06:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-18 Thread William Scheidegger
@Radosław I appologize for the length of this post, but I am trying to be as thorough as possible. After the installation and before my post last night I had rebooted my machine. After my post, I continued searching the forums and installed the Ubuntu "linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-18 Thread William Scheidegger
Just to test it out, I removed the "linux-backports-modules-compat-wireless-2.6.37-maverick-generic" package and performed the rmmod/modprobe again. An immediate test resulted in: Download Speed: 4282 kbps (535.3 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 624 kbps (78 KB/sec transfer rate) Fri

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-18 Thread William Scheidegger
I just performed the rmmod/modprobe again and received: Download Speed: 1150 kbps (143.8 KB/sec transfer rate) Upload Speed: 624 kbps (78 KB/sec transfer rate) Fri 18 Feb 2011 10:45:51 PM CST Attached is a snippet of the file created with: while true;do sudo dmesg -c >> /tmp/dmesg.log; sl

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-19 Thread William Scheidegger
Should #250 and #270 be considered to be mutually exclusive, compatible, or conjunctive? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621265 Title: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg -- ub

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-19 Thread William Scheidegger
I know these are newbie questions and I thank you for your help and patience. Previously I had installed only the linux-image-xxx.deb from #270. When I tried to build #250, of course it errored out without the headers. When I tried to install the linux-headers-xxx.deb from #270, I received the fol

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-20 Thread William Scheidegger
@s0undt3ch Thanks for catching that I was missing the "all" package. I have now downloaded and installed (i.e. sudo dpkg -i) the following from #270: http://people.canonical.com/~apw/lp621265-maverick/linux-headers-2.6.35-27_2.6.35-27.47lp621265v201102161837_all.deb http://people.canonical

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-20 Thread William Scheidegger
As I mentioned earlier, I have been a linux distro user for years, but have never had to delve into the building of individual kernel modules. So I thought I would post this lesson of what NOT to do. I followed the README instructions and issued the commands below: $ ./scripts/driver-select i

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-21 Thread William Scheidegger
@Radosław: I wasn't trying to slight anyone, so kudos out to Stanislaw Gruszka from Redhat also. I have to second s0undt3ch on this. After leaving my machine on all day yesterday and today, when I got home tonight my connectivity is back to slow again. I will try removing #250 and rebooting, but t

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-21 Thread William Scheidegger
With #250 installed, my system is better, at least there is a minute or two of decent bandwidth. After the rmmod/modprobe below, I ran back to back BandwidthPlace.com tests: sudo rmmod iwl3945 iwlcore mac80211 cfg80211 sudo modprobe iwl3945 and received: Download Speed: 4595 kbps (574.4

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-21 Thread William Scheidegger
I also had my wife run the test on her M$ machine followed by my machine. This is documented in the attachment. ** Attachment added: "bandwidthMSnUbuntu.pdf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/621265/+attachment/1864911/+files/bandwidthMSnUbuntu.pdf -- You received this bu

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-21 Thread William Scheidegger
I also performed the rmmod/modprobe followed by the wget below. sudo rmmod iwl3945 iwlcore mac80211 cfg80211 sudo modprobe iwl3945 wget -b http://mirror.anl.gov/pub/ubuntu-iso/CDs-Ubuntu/10.10/ubuntu-10.10-desktop-i386.iso The snippet from attached wget-log.txt that points out the slowd

[Bug 621265] Re: Slow Wireless Connection in Intel 3945abg

2011-02-21 Thread William Scheidegger
Disregarding the initial speedup provided by the rmmod/modprobe, my machine consistently has a download speed of around 1000 kbps. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/621265 Title: Slow Wi