So I have an MSI Wind U100 which when plugged in is ok, but when I unplug it for a second it yells at me and says that my battery is critically low and needs to hibernate, then it hibernates, regardless of which button (cancel or ok) I hit. Then when I resume from hibernation still unplugged it acknowledges that it's at the appropriate battery level. I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 and I couldn't find any clues in dmesg.
View 2 Repliessince the upgrade i see all avaible wifi networks as they have 100% signal, both in NetworkManager and Wicd.in iwconfig and iwlist the signal levels change, but the link quality remains the same: 70/70 (see below). What could be worng? What can i do?
comp. model:
msi wind u100 netbook, ubuntu 10.10, kernel: 2.6.35-24-generic i686
lspci:
Code:
02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2860
Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Device 6890
Physical Slot: 0-1
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
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I'm not sure where to post this but seeing as how, at least as far as I can tell, the problem is related to the wireless card or drivers, I figure this is as good a place as any. On to the problem, I recently install openSUSE 11.2 Gnome on my MSI Wind U100 netbook. Everything appeared to work fine right after install, wireless and everything. However, soon after that I began having issues where the screen would freeze and I would be unable to do anything until I force restarted the computer.
Now I believe the problem is related to my wireless as this problem occurs most frequently when I am either downloading a lot of data over wifi or fiddling with the network. I have had it freeze many times while switching wireless networks or while experiencing wireless issues such as an intermittent connection. I may be completely wrong in my above analysis of the problem, but I figured i need to post somewhere to get started. If anyone feels this post may get more help in another forum, please just let me know.
Under "Power Management Preferences" > "On Battery Power" > "When battery power is critically low" : We have several options : Suspend, Hibernate, Shutdown; but we don't have the do nothing option.Does any one know if i can disable all these actions so the computer will do nothing when the battery power is critically low? May be by a terminal command?
View 9 Replies View RelatedIn Jessie I would change the "critically low battery value". So from dconf-editor I followed this path:
Code: Select all/org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/power/
as suggested here [URL] ....
and here [URL] ....
The problem is that I haven't none of the following fields:
time-action
time-critical
time-low
or
use-time-for-policy
percentage-action
percentage-critical
percentage-low
How can I overcome this problem? Why the dconf-editor seems to be incomplete?
I have an MSI Wind U120 netbook (Intel Atom N270 1.6GHz processor, 1 GB RAM). I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 Netbook Remix. Ever since upgrading to Ubuntu 10.10 from 10.04, my system has experienced unrecoverable freezes when running on battery. The system reliably freezes when resuming from the suspend or hibernate modes when running on battery. It seems to load back up successfully but then freezes before I get a chance to enter my password. Yesterday and today I also noticed that the system freezes while idle and running on battery! This is even more disconcerting.
I have some experience as a Linux user (including using the terminal & editing configuration files) but not much experience as a Linux system administrator.
Just installed 9.10 followed by a 10.04 upgrade (wouldn't work as a 10.04 clean install). The install and upgrade all seemed to go well.
But now when booting I get a message saying "checking battery state" and then it boots no further. This is a laptop without a battery installed, running permanently from the mains through the charger.
How can I disable this check so that the laptop will still boot without a battery fitted?
getting back to our laptop, the stability window is ~3.2V. Meaning that when you operate the battery above this the electrolyte is oxidized on the positive electrode and reduced on the negative electrode. Remember that we only want to oxidize and reduce the active materials and don't want to do anything else. All these reactions other than the ones we want are called side reactions and these are really bad for the battery. The nominal voltage of a laptop battery is 3.7 V which means that something bad wants to happen as we use the battery.So long story short, stuff (e.g., passive layers and poor kinetics of reactions) happens and things are not as bad as they seem and you can increase the voltage up to 4.2V without bad things really happening. All chargers for Li-ion cells today cut the battery off when it reaches 4.2V. What you have to realize is that at 4.2V, these side reactions are present in finite amounts and start to chemically kill the battery, but its not that dramatic.
Operating to 4.1V makes things better and extends the life, 4.0 V is even better and so on. So why don't battery manufacturers cut the voltage off at, say, 4 V to get better battery life? Because every time you cut this voltage down you decrease the capacity of the battery and its run time. The 4.2V cutoff is a compromise between good run time and decent (read "not pathetic) life.On the other hand, if you charge the battery and then pull the plug (so to speak), the battery discharges some, the voltage drops, and these reactions become less of a problem and your battery life goes up. So the best things you can do is to charge the laptop (or cell phone, camera etc.) and once its charged, pull the plug. Your battery will thank you for it.As a matter of fact, if you own a Lenovo Thinkpad, you can actually change the state of charge to which you charge the battery using the Battery Maintenance utility. You can change this from charging to 100% state (where the voltage is 4.2V) to 90% so that your voltage is less. You lose some energy is doing that, but atleast you can change it to 100% when you need battery power and put it back down to 90% when you can plug in. I wish my Mac has the same feature.
I typically use the battery for a while (say 1/2 hour to 1 hour), then plug it in and wait to fully charge it, then I pull the plug and use it again for 1/2 hour to 1h and then I repeat this. Takes some getting used to and I forget to do this, but I try.
I've been trying to connect gt my wirelss running on my an MSI wind u230. First I tried with the default configuration; it could not find any wireless networks. Then I tried the Ralink 3090 driver from Markus Heberling's PPA; it still could not find any wireless networks. then I tridading the followwing to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
<code>
blacklist rt2800pci
blacklist rt2800lib
blacklist rt2x00usb
blacklist rt2x00pci
blacklist rt2x00lib
</code>
and still could not find any wireless networks. Finally, I used the ndiswrapper with the windows driver. I can now find the wireless networks but when I try to connect, I get a 'bad password" on encrypted wetworks and "cannot opbatain IP address" errors on unencrypted networks.
I have a MSI netbook, U100, on which I've installed Ubuntu 10.10. This keeps disconnecting from the network, though the applet shows me that the netbook found it. I mention that I have a wireless network and another laptop, with WIN 7, where I have no problems with the Internet connection. I also have a 3G USB modem, which let me connect without problem.
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Quote:Could not allocate requested partitions:
Partitioning failed: Could not allocate
partitions as primary partitions.
Not enough space left to create partition
for /boot.
I LOVE Ubuntu,but the sketchiness with WIFI in Ubuntu is really frustrating (not that it's Ubuntu or GNU/Linux's fault necessarily). I'm trying to find a good WIFI card replacement for my girlfriend's MSI Wind u90, but seems both the Intel 3945abg and the Intel 4965agn - the cards usually recommended for that model - seem to be spotty at best in all recent versions of Ubuntu including the last long-term release. Has anyone had success with a Broadcom 1020 (in any laptop but especially in a netbook)?
View 1 Replies View Relatedi recently got an msi wind U100x running on linux suse enterprise 10 sp1. i am totally new to linux and i believe that msi wind is not helping. i remember at some point seeing an icon in my toolbar to indicate available wifi networks, but it disappeared a few weeks ago, and i was never able to locate it again. out of dispair i reset the computer to factory settings. all i have is "no network connection" icon, and when you click on it you have both enable networking and enable wireless.
i read somewhere in help that i should have a knetworkmanager, but i can't find it anywhere. all i see in my control center is network card, and when i go in there, i go to 'user controlled with networkmanager' and i see 'micro-star international ethernet controller not configured'. before i reset to factory settings i used to have a wireless card as well.
in a word: i am totally lost and don't know where to start. any step by step to help me connect again?
I have a 3 year old laptop with the original battery and its drained pretty bad. The "Battery may be broken" popup was driving me insane and this is how you disable it, in case you are in the same situation as me. Open terminal
Code:
gconf-editor
Drill down to...
apps --> gnome-power-manager --> notify
uncheck the low_capacity checkbox. This should disable the popup for you if your battery has little life left in it. Now, if any knows how to disable the Avahi popup, let me know.
I just installed 10.10 on a my new Aspire One Acer netbook and I got a mobile broadband USB stick from Wind mobile.
The stick is activated because it works on my 20 GB Windoze 7 O.S. but it doesn't work at all on my 140 GB Ubuntu O.S. Both systems are on the same machine so I know it's not a hardware problem either.
Here's what happens: I log on to Ubuntu, plug in the stick and I select the "New mobile broadband GSM connection" in the network connections menu.
From there I selected my country (Canada) and my mobile provider (Wind Mobile) than I selected my plan (Mobile Broadband) and my APN (broadband.windmobile.ca).
Then the stick blinks slowly and the network icon looks forever for a connection but no matter how long I wait no connection ever establishes. My roomate has it working on his HP laptop Ubuntu but no luck on mine. The stick just keeps blinking, a steady light indicates a connection.
I have just did a fresh install debian jessie today in virtualbox, the X window manager is fxce. By default the default runlevel is 5, and I tried to change the /etc/inittab content:
Code: Select allid:3:initdefault:
and reboot, but it didn't effect to the result, the X-window auto loaded again >.<
I need to change it that will boot in to console mode first, and can run startx if necessary, how can I change it permanently?
I bought an MSI Wind U135 Netbook. It came with Windows 7 Starter, so I installed Xubuntu and Enlightenment first thing. I have gotten everything to work except for the audio. It seems that there is an audio driver installed and in use (The Intel HD Audio driver), however, I can turn all channels up and nothing plays. The beep driver works, and if I turn the Microphone channels up too high then I get loud feedback from the speakers, but nothing else will play. I have tried multiple kernels, including from Ubuntu Netbook edition. All have the same problem. I was unable to determine what audio card is actually present in the machine, MSI's website is a pain, and I couldn't find anything conclusive online. I purchased the laptop in Taiwan, but I believe it is the same as the US version hardware-wise, except for the Chinese on the keyboard obviously.
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ps: I have already updated the Ubuntu software using the commands:
Quote:sudo apt-get update and sudo apt-get upgrade
My Product:Quote:RaLink RT3090 Wireless 802.11n 1T/1R PCIe
Ra-link makes a Linux driver for this card but from what I understand I should not install the driver unless I absolutely have to (do to the fact that it does not automatically update through the operating system) here is the link to the driver (btw, I do not know how to install driver on Ubuntu,
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I want to see what is the configuration of my Wind River Linux (actually I want to see what modules are installed in it when it was built). I can't find the configuration file.
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I did
Code:
I recieve back
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Traceback:
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I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.04 on my Acer Aspire One netbook and no longer have a battery applet on the top bar. I used to have one on 10.10 but not now that I've upgraded ... I have tried going into power preferences and i couldn't get it to work.The Power Manager options suggest that there is no battery present which is obviously not the case...
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View 4 Replies View RelatedI recently purchased a UPS (Tripp-lite Internet 550U)to shutdown my PC during a power outage when unattended. This model of UPS is connected to the PC with USB. Upon plugging in the UPS USB cable the Gnome Power Manager started up and it appears to correctly show the condition of the UPS. During a power outage it showed battery discharge right down to the battery going critical, but never shutdown the PC. I have set the options in the power manager for low & critical battery shutdow. Seems something is blocking the Gnome Power Manager from shutting down, but I have no idea where to start looking..
PC: Abit mobo with Phoenix bios
Ubuntu 8.04
UPS: Trtipp-Lite Internet 550U
Is Ubunutu better than Windows 7 for general battery life?
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How can I fix it? Its quite important because I often forget to hook it up.
So, I never got great battery life with 9.04 or 9.10, but it was acceptable. Here's the thing, with Windows 7 I can get about two hours. With Ubuntu I'm lucky if I get an hour, and I mean really lucky. I have selected to dim the brightness and to spin down the HDD when possible, it hasn't helped a whole lot. What I don't see is an option to underclock the CPU, which is done rather easily in Kubuntu.
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Two things then, is there a better applet for volume and one at all for the battery so I can get some kind of notifications?
I've recently installed 10.04 on my laptop and spent some time configuring it. A while ago I've noticed that there are now two battery icons in the panel in the top-right corner. One seems to be attached to the indicator applet and the other one sits by itself. Changing the settings in the Power Management menu affects both icons in the same way (I can either show or hide them both). Is there any way to remove the extra icon and just keep the one integrated into the indicator?
This is a very minor annoyance really, but it'd still be nice if there was a fix for it.
Update: Now the battery icon in the indicator applet has changed to the chat "evelope" icon, but it still acts as a battery icon (same menu). Something is definitely not right here...
I just got a new Acer Aspire One notebook, and first thing I did was get RID of windows 7 starter crap, and put on Ubuntu 10.04. Everything runs smoothly and works well except one thing, Ubuntu doesn't seem to recognize I have a battery, it behave's like it would on a desktop. This is really bothering me as I need to know my battery life and whatnot. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Im completely up to date, and I also tried booting up in the live version of 9.10 and it didnt recognize a battery either, i fear if i cant get this working I might need to use Win7 Starter...I was looking forward to Ubuntu.
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