Posts filed under 'Ubuntu'
Due to some network hardware modifications on my ubuntu 7.10 system i already had 6 entries of eth devices. From which only 1 is still in my computer. Now the only network card which i am using has the name “eth5″. As some programs expect the default network card as eth0 i tried to change the name for my network card from ethN to eth0.
Following steps are necessary:
open /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules- change the “NAME” parameter in
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="yourMacAddr", NAME="eth5" to the value you would like to set.
- restart your system
That`s it. Now your network card should be reachable under the new name.
March 16th, 2008
Recently I wanted to print a web page to a pdf file. As I am using Firefox as my default web browser in Kubuntu this does not work out of the box like in Konqueror. Following steps are necessary to print from Firefox with kprinter (which is able to print to a pdf):
- Type
about:config in the adress bar of Firefox
- In the filter bar type:
print.printer_PostScript/Default.print_command
- Double click on the entry and enter the following value in the popup box:
kprinter --stdin
From now on you will get the KPrinter dialog and be able to print to pdf, postscript, etc, and of course to the real printers.
April 6th, 2007
1. Download from Adobe the tar.gz version of the plugin. Extract the downloaded file: tar xvzf install_flash_player_9_linux.tar.gz
2. Close all running Firefox instances.
3. Locate the firefox plugins directory. Under Ubuntu 6.06 it can be found at /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins.
4. Remove any older version of the plugin: sudo rm libflashplayer.so
5. Copy the libflashplayer.so file to the Firefox plugins directory.
February 7th, 2007