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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: November 02, 2007, 12:39:47 am »

I give up, unless someone can tell me in plain english step by step how to get my wireless usb adapter working I have had enough Tomorrow or Saturday I will try Windows MCE, I have tried various guides but most seem to be based on ubuntu which picked up my wireless straight away but Kubuntu and MCE just wont. I have knetworkmanager running and I dont even know where to start looking it isn't picking up the adapter anywhere I can see, its Zyxel G-202 Wireless USB adapter, I have tried a few commands in the terminal from various forums and guides but I just get missing this or that isn't installed or maybe it is installed and I can't make sense of any of it?

I figure I could try Windows MCE and give Linux a go on the 7.10 release due soon and in the mean time I need to read up a little more, I feel I am almost there but then I haven't even started on the PCI WinTV Nova T-500!!!

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: November 01, 2007, 07:40:07 pm »

OK now I am getting frustrated I have got my hardwired into my modem miles from the desired location I have had to take the screen off my other desktop pc too!!!

I am now online but I don't understand how to start the synaptic update manager I have just done  a handfull of updates through the terminal but in Ubuntu I had a nice window with descriptions for each update I also had something appear and tell me to install my graphics card driver but I get none of that here in Kubuntu.

Can I add synaptic to my menu bar if so can someone tell me how?

Also where do I go to install my graphics card driver?

And my wirelss adapter is still not working

 

please help a desperate man, I have a copy of Windows MCE arrive today, it's sitting on my desk and is meant to be a last resort and the temptation is becoming hard to resist!!!!!!!

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: November 01, 2007, 04:51:23 pm »

Thanks for coming back to me teedge77,

As far as I can gather MCE seems to run as a program in Kubuntu that is how it appears but I do know what you mean and that would have explained it!!!

AMD 64 x2
Msi K9VGM
SATA 320GB Barracuda
1Gb Ram
Hauppage Win Tv Nova T-500
Nvidia Club 3d Gforce 8500

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: November 01, 2007, 10:05:04 am »

Ok an update:
I had a play with MCE last night I have it running now on my tv, however I have no graphics drivers and my nova t-500  has no driver so it is limited and a little rough looking!

I have installed knetwork manager but it cant seem to find any network, is there somewhere can see a list of devices, like a windows device manager thing, I would like to see if is recognising my usb adapter?

I think this evening I will go and hard wire it to my router to get some updates and my graphics card and nov t-500 drivers, maybe it will find my adapter after that?

Also I found a power down option in MCE but I still haven't found one in Kubuntu and I don't realy understand where that log off button takes me?

Again apologies for my ignorance, also should this now be in another fourm for set up or am I ok to keep posting here?

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: October 31, 2007, 08:58:16 pm »

With Ubuntu I had a network icon on the taskbar I clicked it and selected my network simple, you must excuse my absolute ignorance in Linux, I cant find how to do the same in Kubuntu I cant even find a button to shut it down there is only a log off button that takes me to a blank black screen with nothing but a mouse cursor!!!!!

I just followed a guide that said to install knetworkmanager but that doesn't seem to have worked either?

I am hoping to improve my Linux knowledge as I go along but I am beggining to think I have bitten off more than I can chew.

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: October 31, 2007, 07:25:10 pm »

Hagen,

I cant find how to get Kubuntu to connect to my wirless network using my wireless usb adapter something I found simple in Ubuntu, can I mount Linux MCE on the 6.10 Ubuntu release or will that no longer work?

How do I connect Kubuntu to my wireless network?

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: October 31, 2007, 04:17:06 pm »

It was only a June/July issue, do we have any idea on what will be new in 7.10?

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: October 31, 2007, 02:49:10 pm »

I have built a few PC's now but it is all self taught, I am still a bit of a novice. So I got a magazine PCFormat and it had a build your own Media Centre PC guide, I have been dying to do this for ages and it seemed a challenge, I bought the parts put it all together it looks good seems to be functioning ok it was just this software issue and the mag clearly stated "use ubuntu latest release" so I guess that was wrong. It could have saved me a lot of stress if they gave me a little more info than the final paragraph they offered and they made it sound so easy, oh how wrong they were!!!!

I am going to have a play with this tonight, try and get it set up with all hardware in place and connected to my CRT TV using scart to s-video and see how I get on, I am hoping to be able to leave my reliance on Mcrosoft behind, wish me luck and I'll come back and post how I get on.

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: October 31, 2007, 12:11:40 pm »

Hagen,

I suppose it could be but ubuntu installs fine it is purely just the install MCE link that is put on the desktop by the downloaded deb file from

http://www.linuxmce.com/download.php

It was the same problem everytime as well I thought it could have been a hardware conflict therefore I have tried removing the graphics card and tv tuner but to no avail it is like the link is a deadend? I started off with the "ubuntu 7.10 iso amd64" but the link seemed dead then I read somewhere that Linux MCE wont mount on this due to the 64bit architecture, can anyone confirm this? So I then tried "7.10 i386 desktop  version" (32 bit) that installed but still the link seemed dead, I don't know what it is supposed to link to but nothing happens sometimes it asks me for my password and I think maybe, but then nothing again. All the guides say it should start a setup wizard and this will tell me when to insert the Linux MCE DVD but I guess I never got that far, I did try and insert the disk before clicking the link just in case but it was still just as dead, I did also try rifiling through the cotents of the dvd to no avail.

 I then tried without installing the graphics card driver, then without any updates still dead link. I then tried installing straight from the quick install dvd iso from Linux MCE but got error messages!   


However I reburned the Linux MCE DVD installer and also the Ubuntu 6.06 disc late last night and decided to try the dvd direct install quickly first before I gave up for the night and hey presto I now have Kubuntu and MCE, I guess I couldn't install direct from the dvd before due to bad sectors! I havent tried it out yet and I have to put the hardware back in but should I do this then reinstall from the dvd or will kubuntu and linux MCE just find them itself? 
 

If anyone knows what I did wrong with Ubuntu please let me know, I did get quite used to the look and feel of it whilst trying to suss out what was going on with the link, is there much difference in Kubuntu?

Any comments on these four days of hair loss I have just suffered will be much appreciated.   

AMD 64 x2
Msi K9VGM
SATA 320GB Barracuda
1Gb Ram
Hauppage Win Tv Nova T-500
Nvidia Club 3d Gforce 8500

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Installation issues / Re: Can't install package'mce-installer'

« on: October 31, 2007, 01:33:01 am »

Hi I am a complete newbiee to linux I have installed ubuntu numerous times now using 64bit Iso disc and 32bit iso disc different releases, I have tried removing hardware now I am out of ideas I cant get the MCE installer to run sometimes it asks for a password but nothing ever happens according to the guides I should have a wizard start but I am geting nothing???

I am at my wits end now and have sourced a Win XP MCE disc but I want to try a bit longer with this, can anyone help even just to say the servers are busy, the ubuntu installs seem to be fine.

I did also try using the quick install ISO DVD for MCE but I am getting an error message and I have just burnt a new disc to try.

amd 64 x2
Msi K9VGM
SATA 320GB Barracuda
1Gb Ram
Hauppage Win Tv Nova T-500
Nvidia Club 3d Gforce 8500