[Bug 1022573] Re: Cant print to cd tray on 12.04

2013-08-08 Thread Sam Coffland
From another forum in Dutch a workaround has been suggested. Use the Print Preview option and then click print. The print preview is actually CUPS (I believe) The print jobs process normally after this as Glabel is not involved in rastering the image.

Re: [Bug 1097519] Re: Wrong driver used for older Broadcom chipsets

2013-06-12 Thread Sam Coffland
I think the best solutions would be to pull the 6.20 BCMWL driver and downgrade the official repos to the 5.100 BCMWL driver. In the future do not roll out new Broadcom drivers until they have been thoroughly tested by the community. I do believe most if not all of these bug reports would

Re: [Bug 1097519] Re: Wrong driver used for older Broadcom chipsets

2013-06-11 Thread Sam Coffland
on this. --- *Sam Coffland* Systems Administrator TruckMovers.com, Inc. s...@truckmovers.com 816.878.6046 [phone] http://truckmovers.com On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:45 AM, Adam Porter 1097...@bugs.launchpad.netwrote: On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 1:38 AM, Bernardo Reino 1097...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: @Adam

Re: [Bug 1097519] Re: Wrong driver used for older Broadcom chipsets

2013-06-09 Thread Sam Coffland
Yes this is a work around but the brcmsmac is not as efficient, uses more power and overall does not have nearly the throughput of the bcmwl. My work around for 100+ Dell Inspiron and Latitude laptops has been to ditch the Broadcom chip and replace it with an Intel chip. The Centrino 6250 has

[Bug 1112924] [NEW] WIfi fails to connect with bcmwl-kernel-source

2013-02-01 Thread Sam Coffland
Public bug reported: Unable to connect to WPA \WPA2 with Broadcom Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01) System description Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 12.10 Release:12.10 Codename: quantal Broadcom Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4727] (rev 01) Symptoms

[Bug 1112924] Re: WIfi fails to connect with bcmwl-kernel-source

2013-02-01 Thread Sam Coffland
** Package changed: libapache-request-perl (Ubuntu) = bcmwl (Ubuntu) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1112924 Title: WIfi fails to connect with bcmwl-kernel-source To manage

[Bug 571247] Re: acroread remains zombie, so pdfs won't be rendered anymore

2011-05-03 Thread Sam Coffland
Correction the RAM changes do not consistently fix this issue. I have found Chrome or Chromium both work well with out the need of Acroread. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/571247

[Bug 571247] Re: acroread remains zombie, so pdfs won't be rendered anymore

2011-04-28 Thread Sam Coffland
Here are a couple of really ugly workarounds if like me you have to have embedded PDFs in FireFox. 1 add an application launcher to the panel with the code killall npviewer.bin click on it when acroread freezes up and then refresh your page 2 switch to the 32 bit version of Ubuntu 3 Remove