Comments on: Staying up-to-date with your webbook http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/ best viewed at 1024x600 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:38:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: Patrick Carena http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-1403 Patrick Carena Mon, 15 Jun 2009 11:41:41 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-1403 Hi, We purchased a webbook for our daughter. Have found you forum and was wondering if the change to VIA graphics drivers would sort some of the game software problems re screen size (-x for gcompris) fretsonfire has a similar problem. If the drivfer upgrade does solve some of the problems Is there a prepackaged autoish driver install? Also how to make the wader 3g software update when using the update app? Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions Patrick Hi,
We purchased a webbook for our daughter. Have found you forum and was wondering if the change to VIA graphics drivers would sort some of the game software problems re screen size (-x for gcompris) fretsonfire has a similar problem.

If the drivfer upgrade does solve some of the problems Is there a prepackaged autoish driver install?

Also how to make the wader 3g software update when using the update app?

Thanks in advance for any help/suggestions
Patrick

]]> By: admin http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-1399 admin Tue, 09 Jun 2009 11:23:13 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-1399 facebook is a social networking site rather than an online game. King.com seems to require windows even though the games are flash based and should be cross platform. It also seems to require something called shockwave which is related to flash somehow but isn't the same. That only runs on Windows. Personally I like the games in the repositories Go to applications- add/remove and look in the games category. Loads there to keep you amused. facebook is a social networking site rather than an online game. King.com seems to require windows even though the games are flash based and should be cross platform. It also seems to require something called shockwave which is related to flash somehow but isn’t the same. That only runs on Windows. Personally I like the games in the repositories Go to applications- add/remove and look in the games category. Loads there to keep you amused.

]]> By: james http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-1391 james Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:19:50 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-1391 hi i cant seem to play games online like on facebook or king.com with my webbook please can you help? hi i cant seem to play games online like on facebook or king.com with my webbook please can you help?

]]> By: Matt Dinnery http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-535 Matt Dinnery Sat, 01 Nov 2008 02:41:32 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-535 @Bella, Go to Start -> Run Type 'cmd' (press enter) Type 'ipconfig /all' (press enter) Now, look for the section 'Adapter: ' which refers to the wireless card (maybe Alan can tell us the name of it to help me out?). Reply to here telling me EXACTLY what it says in that sections, particularly bits such as 'IP Address:', 'DHCP Lease Expires:', 'Gateway:', 'DNS Servers:', 'Subnet:' and so on... Type 'ipconfig /release' (press enter) Type 'ipconfig /renew' (press enter) Type 'ipconfig /flushdns' (press enter) [TECH NOTE: this releases all IP bindings, forces all adapters to try and get new ones, and then clears the DNS resolver cache] Type 'ping www.google.co.uk' Type 'tracert www.google.co.uk' Reply to here telling me EXACTLY what it says. [TECH NOTE: ping is the same as linux, tracert fully stands for 'trace route'] NB: Do not include the 'quotes' when typing! Regards, Matt Dinnery, Webmaster, Medical Admissions - Getting you in... www.medicaladmissions.co.uk @Bella,
Go to Start -> Run
Type ‘cmd’ (press enter)
Type ‘ipconfig /all’ (press enter)

Now, look for the section ‘Adapter: ‘ which refers to the wireless card (maybe Alan can tell us the name of it to help me out?). Reply to here telling me EXACTLY what it says in that sections, particularly bits such as ‘IP Address:’, ‘DHCP Lease Expires:’, ‘Gateway:’, ‘DNS Servers:’, ‘Subnet:’ and so on…

Type ‘ipconfig /release’ (press enter)
Type ‘ipconfig /renew’ (press enter)
Type ‘ipconfig /flushdns’ (press enter)
[TECH NOTE: this releases all IP bindings, forces all adapters to try and get new ones, and then clears the DNS resolver cache]

Type ‘ping http://www.google.co.uk‘
Type ‘tracert http://www.google.co.uk‘
Reply to here telling me EXACTLY what it says.
[TECH NOTE: ping is the same as linux, tracert fully stands for 'trace route']

NB: Do not include the ‘quotes’ when typing!

Regards,

Matt Dinnery,
Webmaster,
Medical Admissions – Getting you in…

http://www.medicaladmissions.co.uk

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-528 Alan Bell Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:46:35 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-528 @dominic, you might want to check out <a href=http://webbookblog.com/?p=6 rel="nofollow">this post</a> @dominic, you might want to check out this post

]]> By: dominic http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-531 dominic Fri, 31 Oct 2008 16:10:23 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-531 just bought a webbook cant get by user name password they are saying the one im putting in is wrong can i get by this problem just bought a webbook cant get by user name password they are saying the one im putting in is wrong can i get by this problem

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-534 Alan Bell Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:51:47 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-534 @Bella, I don't know much about Windows, do you get an IP address? can you ping your router? Try opening a command line window and typing "route print" and see if you have an IP address probably starting with 192.168 try pinging your router, at a guess try "ping 192.168.0.1" if you get replies from that try pinging an address on the outside "ping 84.12.94.124" then if that works try pinging by name to see if DNS resolution is working "ping webbookblog.com" A browser is not a particularly good low level diagnosis tool for networking issues. @Bella, I don’t know much about Windows, do you get an IP address? can you ping your router? Try opening a command line window and typing “route print” and see if you have an IP address probably starting with 192.168 try pinging your router, at a guess try “ping 192.168.0.1″ if you get replies from that try pinging an address on the outside “ping 84.12.94.124″ then if that works try pinging by name to see if DNS resolution is working “ping webbookblog.com” A browser is not a particularly good low level diagnosis tool for networking issues.

]]> By: Bella http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-533 Bella Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:14:35 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-533 Hello, I changed my ubuntu to xp.nd i wanted to know why i still can not connect to the internet.it gets the signal from a wireless network but cant get through internet explorer,can you help?thanks Hello,
I changed my ubuntu to xp.nd i wanted to know why i still can not connect to the internet.it gets the signal from a wireless network but cant get through internet explorer,can you help?thanks

]]> By: Alan Bell http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-526 Alan Bell Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:15:48 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-526 @Alison, yes the restarting wader thing was just because it might have been running whilst the upgrade happened, restarting the webbook certainly does this if it didn't do it as part of the upgrade (restart-wader-core from a command line would also work). The wording of a lot of messages around upgrades tends to be poorly worded because there are a lot of ways to apply an upgrade, not just with the Synaptic package manager but the command line and other package managers. The package manager buttons are also translated strings so if you are using a different language the buttons change. The wording probably made perfect sense in a different context. Very interesting comment about Geek Squad. CPW have stopped returning my emails and I am really not sure what is going on. @Alison, yes the restarting wader thing was just because it might have been running whilst the upgrade happened, restarting the webbook certainly does this if it didn’t do it as part of the upgrade (restart-wader-core from a command line would also work). The wording of a lot of messages around upgrades tends to be poorly worded because there are a lot of ways to apply an upgrade, not just with the Synaptic package manager but the command line and other package managers. The package manager buttons are also translated strings so if you are using a different language the buttons change. The wording probably made perfect sense in a different context.
Very interesting comment about Geek Squad. CPW have stopped returning my emails and I am really not sure what is going on.

]]> By: Alison http://webbookblog.com/staying-up-to-date-with-your-webbook/comment-page-1/#comment-536 Alison Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:03:47 +0000 http://webbookblog.com/?p=127#comment-536 Postscript. It has occurred to me that the mysterious 'command button' might in fact refer to the 'Run this action now' button and that the action in question was to stop Wader, not restart it, hence the lack of response. As for restarting Wader, perhaps that happens automatically? In any case, the on-screen message was poorly worded and ambiguous. I would very much appreciate your comments, Alan. (I also got my first error message when I subsequently installed some Ubuntu updates, but thankfully it vanished again and I was able to install them after all.) By the way, I did try calling the Geek Squad only to be told that they have instructions no longer to provide any support to customers who bought the Ubuntu webbook!!! Postscript. It has occurred to me that the mysterious ‘command button’ might in fact refer to the ‘Run this action now’ button and that the action in question was to stop Wader, not restart it, hence the lack of response. As for restarting Wader, perhaps that happens automatically? In any case, the on-screen message was poorly worded and ambiguous. I would very much appreciate your comments, Alan. (I also got my first error message when I subsequently installed some Ubuntu updates, but thankfully it vanished again and I was able to install them after all.)

By the way, I did try calling the Geek Squad only to be told that they have instructions no longer to provide any support to customers who bought the Ubuntu webbook!!!

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