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I used to be a Mint user back in the days of Celena after trying Ubuntu and finding it too difficult for a complete newbie. Then I moved back to Ubuntu and never felt that Mint had that much more to offer to entice me back. Now with the Debian edition I am back and truly loving it so far. I think th...

using "root" as the username with my regular password worked perfectly. Thank you.

I have just installed LinuxMint Debian edition and things were working very well. I use a Brother HL2070N printer on my local ethernet. I installed the linux drivers and then went to localhost:631 to modify the printer with the correct address. The printer is listed but when I try to modify the prin...

I used to use Linux Mint, but recently I built a couple of boxes with NVIdia 7025 integrated graphics and I could not figure out how to get the live CD running or to install from it. I ended up installing Ubuntu from the alternate install CD. I would not mind supporting Linux Mint however by using t...

I am using a Dell D810. If I try to play a video file when the laptop is NOT docked, everything works as it should. However when the laptop is docked, that portion of the screen in totem where the video would be displayed is black. I can see the rest of the screen such as the "contols", bu...

I want to buy a new scanner. I usually use newegg to buy from but cannot find any of their scanners listed as supported on http://www.sane-project.org/sane-mfgs.html

does anyone have a recommendations?

Jim

I second KrazyPenguin's idea and would go further and incorporate the concept that Clem put forth about MintSpace. On Firefox I use the Add-on FoxMarks and all of the browsers on the many and varied computers I use as part of my employment have the same and syncronized bookmarks. I am amazed at the ...

I have come to the conclusion that it is something in the hotel server. This week things are working OK except that it will not let me send email. the guy at the front desk says that the hotel has been simplifying the network, too many wireless users were having problems. Hopefully they will get the...

I found the following material at the avahi.org website, but being a computer networking neophyte, i am not sure what it means: "Avahi and Unicast Domains .local ¶ mDNS/DNS-SD is inherently incompatible with unicast DNS zones .local. We strongly recommend not to use Avahi or nss-mdns in such a...

When I first booted up at the hotel this week there appeared a message for a short period of time: "network service discovery disabled. your current network has a .local domain, which is not recommended and incompatible with the avahi (sp?)" and the rest of the message disappeared before I...

I ran "sudo dhclient" and this is an approximation of the result: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client v3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium All Rights Reserved For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp Listening on LPF/eth0/00:12:3f:cf:df:f9 Sending on LPF/eth0...

I did clear all the private data and still no help. In XP, ipconfig shows the following: dns suffix: hamptoninn.lan ip address 169.254.11.87 subnet mask: 255.255.255.248 dfault gateway: 10.71.0.1 dhcp server : 10.71.0.1 dns servers: 10.61.32.1 1.1.1.1 In linux i show the following: internet address:...

I stay at the Hampton Inn every week and have been happily surfing the web in linux mint for 6 months. I just upgraded to Cassandra this week and am now having network problems at the hotel using a wired ethernet connection. I had no problems at the office with a wired connection. This is one of tho...

do we have an idea how soon the upgrade instructions from bianca to cassandra will be posted and will they be posted on the wiki?

Jim

i figured it out with the "chown" command.

I have done as directed and created the filesystem on the partition and listed it in fstab with defaults options. I mounted the partiton at the correct mount point. I see the file system correctly but it will not let me write to the file system. when i open the folder it shows a "lost + found&q...

I have been using linuxmint for a few weeks now and love it. I have cleaned off one of my ntfs partitions and would like to format it ext3 and extend my /home to include that partition. can that be done?

Jim

Thanks much for the help.

I had Bea installed and upgraded to Bianca using the instructions at http://www.linuxmint.com/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_from_Bea_to_Bianca_Stable and everything is working well. But, when i start the logon screen that comes up still says Bea rather than Bianca. Is there a way to update this screen as w...

It is nice to feel that I am not relaying any viruses on to others, and not all the machines that i use are linux and I want to feel comfortable using and sharing between my various machines.