[Chester LUG] Yesterday's meeting

[Nic Deane]

Deear Michael,

Many thanks for your reply. I've e-mailed Steve with the possibility of 
meeting up today or Friday. Thanks for your advice on possibly buying a 
new chip and swapping it. We'll see if that is necessary.

Many thanks for your kind reply!

Nic
On 01/10/13 13:16, Michael Crilly wrote:
> Hey Nic,
>
> In the event the chip has failed, they can usually be swapped out 
> easily and pretty cheap. Have you considered buying a new chip?
>
> -MC
>
>
> On 1 October 2013 12:49, Les Pritchard <les.pritchard at gmail.com 
> <mailto:les.pritchard at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Nic,
>
>     Really sorry to hear you didn't see anyone there. It was a very
>     unusual month where everyone seemed to be busy with something
>     unfortunately, so I'm sorry for your wasted time. It would be good
>     to see you next month.
>
>     With regard to your laptop problems, there is a chance that your
>     chip has failed but it could well be a driver issue. I've very
>     limited experience with Dell laptops and Linux so can't really
>     offer many suggestions, but have you tried booting some
>     alternative distro live cds? In the past I've got lucky finding a
>     distro that seems happy with problematic wireless cards.
>
>     Les
>
>
>     On 27 September 2013 20:23, Nic Deane <nic.deane at btinternet.com
>     <mailto:nic.deane at btinternet.com>> wrote:
>
>         Dear Les,
>
>         I went to the Rake and Pikel last night but was a little late
>         - arriving about 8 pm. The landlord was very friendly and gave
>         me the Wifi code so I could get on and do a bit of work and
>         enjoy a bitter while I waited. Obviously, last night didn't
>         work for folk because no-one else turned up - but maybe next
>         month.....
>
>         Anyway, I wonder if anyone could give me a bit of advice?
>         Steve very kindly sorted out my little Samsung NC110 (Korean
>         keyboard) netbook a month or so ago and it worked brilliantly
>         while we were in the States.
>         It's still working brilliantly - and I'm so glad that all my
>         files are on it because...but now I have a problem with my
>         other Linux Mint laptop - a Dell Inspiron 1564. If I didn't
>         have my trusty little netbook I would really be in trouble!!
>
>         I run Mint 15 Cinnamon on my Dell 1564 - Microsoft free - and
>         everything's been great until last week. For some reason my
>         wireless seems to have packed up. The other two computers in
>         the house (my wife's Windows Dell 1764 and my little Samsung)
>         don't have any problems connecting wirelessly to our BT
>         broadband hub, however, my Dell Inspiron 1564 does!
>
>         I know the Broadcom B4312 chip can be a bit problematical and
>         so I've tried to go through all the ideas on the forums -
>         including downloading the Sourceforge bcm4312.deb package and
>         applying it. This seems to be the best thing but it just keeps
>         trying to connect to my BT hub - and failing. However, it's
>         better than any of the other alternatives I've been trying
>         fruitlessly for the last three days. They were all saying 'out
>         of range' (e.g. purging bcmwl-kernel-source and installing
>         firmware-b43-lpphy-installer or doing the opposite and
>         re-installing bcmwl-kernel-source!). Maybe like the problem
>         Steve solved there's an easy answer but I just can't see it!
>
>         Can the Broadcom chip fail and completely pack up? Is this my
>         problem?
>
>         Any wise advice would be most welcome!
>
>         Many thanks in advance,
>
>         Nic Deane
>
>
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