Maybe I should of stuck to Vista?!?!

And for the record I'm trying to set up a Compaq Presario CQ60 to run Ubuntu 14.04 (maybe that's the problem!).

Initially I attempted to instal 14.04 in it's self created drive of approx 47gig leaving the remainder 107gig for Windows all on a 160gig drive. Everything seemed to go well until login - I then I found that login was not possible either by password or as a guest - it seems to try but after a few flickers and a second or two of black screen I'm back to the login page.

So I tried a reinstal, thinking it would wipe the previous instal but now as is obvious to me it installed alongside - giving me two copies of Ubuntu (not wanted) and as originally wanted Vista still in place. However, it was not possible to login to either of the Ubuntu's!

So I wiped the lot Inc Vista - reinstalled 14.04........guess what? Still can't login.

Sorry so long but this has near driven me mad.

PS. I know how to pull up Grub and get to the terminal and quite happy to do away with the login all together!

Any help appreciated
Pozzouk.

As long as the installer disk was properly downloaded (please check the downloaded file with md5sum hash from its source) and the same is properly burned (recheck the burned CD/DVD with same md5sum) installation should go without problem.

Also, probably you did not get what was the "User Name" and "Password" authorized at the installation, you should take note of it while the installation process is still going, because at reboot you "must" login with that username and password.

Now, this do:
1. Check the downloaded iso file with the md5sum hash given from your download source.
2. Burn and recheck the sum.
3. Install, and pay attention as the installation process goes on. Write down your user name and password to make it sure.
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4. If you wanted to clean your hard disk because it may appear confusing to you at installation, you can delete those unwanted partitions at the installer process, but if you get confused you can use another live CD with reformatting tool. Download a Gparted live CD here burn it and run to clean up your HDD first before you install a fresh copy of your Ubuntu.
5. If you still have problem come back.

By the way, you are installing Ubuntu 14.04. This version is exactly what a simplified windows-like distro is releasing at the moment: Linux Lite v. 2.8 is built upon Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. I suggest you to use Linux Lite first, it has a better installation interface because the developers aim that distro to cater the new comers from windows-world. Read and download from here --the md5sum hash is posted just above the download link. Using that distro you may find installation easier from there.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

m.m.

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Cheers m.m.

I seem to have got in a right old mess.

First off, I definitely had the password and login right, as if I deliberately put in incorrect details they were rejected immeadiately in red and stated to be incorrect - whereas, when correctly entered it was taking 4 or 5 seconds to simply return to a cleared login box and no mention of incorrectness.....also the guest login behaved in the same manner.

As for Linux Lite 2.8 Brilliant I thought - I downloaded and installed last night marvelling as to how great it was (huge thanks). It really is just what I had been looking for, until I attempted a reboot and I immediately ran into wi-fi problems. I gather there are potential driver issues?......so I searched about and came up with hundreds of different possibilities......I tried a few but with no luck.

Eventually I decided on a fresh install of Lite 2.8 ......but still no wi-fi......every option I tried had the wi-fi connection greyed out. I have reinstalled 5 times and as yet not a sniff of a wi-fi connection success???? The strange thing is that wi-fi worked great on the very first install until the reboot - but in all 5 installs since not a sign any of wi-fi. Although everything else seems fine.

Thanks again and in anticipation of any other ideas on this issue.

ATB Pozzouk.

What have you tried do to solve it? I am confident that Linux Lite being derived from Ubuntu can drive every WLAN interface that other Ubuntu flavors currently run in v. 14.04.
Yes it doesnt' post the WLAN connection immediately. In my case, a-not-high-end netbook hosted Linux Lite 2.8, the icon (a diagonal plug-socket) is disconnected momentarily until I clicked it and chose among the many services detected and entered the appropriate password. To note, my WLAN Interface is a Broadcom! a notorious anti-FOSS hardware brand.
If you tell us what you did and what came out, probably I am able to help you how to continue.

Hope that helps.

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open a terminal
then post the output of the following:
sudo rfkill list
sudo ifconfig -a

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Cheers Purple & m.m for getting back - please see below what i found:

jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo rfkill list
[sudo] password for jacko:
0: phy0: Wireless LAN
Soft blocked: no
Hard blocked: no
jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1f:16:7b:bd:1b
inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::21f:16ff:fe7b:bd1b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:314257 errors:300 dropped:0 overruns:300 frame:0
TX packets:118626 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:473719219 (473.7 MB) TX bytes:8291466 (8.2 MB)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:145 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:13280 (13.2 KB) TX bytes:13280 (13.2 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:24:2c:2c:41:0b
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

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I'm not certain as yet but i'm suspicious that the wireless card has died - would the above point in that direction??? My reasoning is that in the network settings there is no info showing in the BSSID box or the Masked Mac address box - also I am now running Mint 17 on here and still the network detector is not showing my network.........I know the modem is good as my dear old XP machine is working fine! Including all other household wifi dependent gadgets.

Thank for your help guys
ATB Pozzouk.

Can you provide us the output of If your wlan card is a Broadcom it might take us a little more effort to let it work. I suspect it is a module problem, or else, the card needs a firmware tuning, although the latter situation is rare.

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Thanks for looking in m.m.

I guess the last bit with reference to Qualcom Atheros is the relevant bit. From what i had read i have to say i was expecting to find a Broadcom card'

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jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo lspci -v
[sudo] password for jacko:
00:00.0 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Capabilities: [94] HyperTransport: #1a
Capabilities: [60] HyperTransport: Retry Mode
Capabilities: [44] HyperTransport: Slave or Primary Interface
Capabilities: [d0] HyperTransport: #1c

00:01.0 ISA bridge: NVIDIA Corporation Device 075e (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
I/O ports at 1a00 [size=256]

00:01.1 SMBus: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SMBus (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel, IRQ 10
I/O ports at 3080 [size=64]
I/O ports at 3040 [size=64]
I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: nForce2_smbus

00:01.3 Co-processor: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Co-Processor (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
Memory at c0080000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512K]

00:01.4 RAM memory: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] Memory Controller (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: 66MHz, fast devsel

00:02.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at c0006000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci

00:02.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
Memory at c0007000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [44] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:04.0 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a1) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at c0008000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ohci-pci

00:04.1 USB controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a1) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
Memory at c0007400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [44] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
Capabilities: [80] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci

00:06.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] IDE (rev a1) (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
[virtual] Memory at 000001f0 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 000003f0 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
[virtual] Memory at 00000170 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
[virtual] Memory at 00000370 (type 3, non-prefetchable)
I/O ports at 30c0 [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: pata_amd

00:07.0 Audio device: NVIDIA Corporation MCP72XE/MCP72P/MCP78U/MCP78S High Definition Audio (rev a1)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 19
Memory at c0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable+ 64bit+
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel

00:08.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
Capabilities: [b8] Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device cb84
Capabilities: [8c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed-

00:09.0 IDE interface: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] SATA Controller (non-AHCI mode) (rev a2) (prog-if 85 [Master SecO PriO])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 40
I/O ports at 30f0 [size=8]
I/O ports at 30e4 [size=4]
I/O ports at 30e8 [size=8]
I/O ports at 30e0 [size=4]
I/O ports at 30d0 [size=16]
Memory at c0004000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [8c] SATA HBA v1.0
Capabilities: [b0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/8 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [ec] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Kernel driver in use: ahci

00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: NVIDIA Corporation MCP77 Ethernet (rev a2)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, 66MHz, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 41
Memory at c0009000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
I/O ports at 30f8 [size=8]
Memory at c0007c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Memory at c0007800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
Capabilities: [44] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/16 Maskable+ 64bit+
Capabilities: [6c] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed+
Kernel driver in use: forcedeth

00:0b.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Express Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
Memory behind bridge: c1000000-c1ffffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 00000000c4000000-00000000dfffffff
Capabilities: [40] Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0000
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [60] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed-

00:14.0 PCI bridge: NVIDIA Corporation MCP78S [GeForce 8200] PCI Bridge (rev a1) (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
Bus: primary=00, secondary=07, subordinate=07, sec-latency=0
Memory behind bridge: c2000000-c20fffff
Capabilities: [40] Subsystem: NVIDIA Corporation Device 0000
Capabilities: [48] Power Management version 3
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/2 Maskable- 64bit+
Capabilities: [60] HyperTransport: MSI Mapping Enable+ Fixed-
Capabilities: [80] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
Kernel driver in use: pcieport

00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor HyperTransport Configuration (rev 40)
Flags: fast devsel
Capabilities: [80] HyperTransport: Host or Secondary Interface

00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor Address Map
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor DRAM Controller
Flags: fast devsel

00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor Miscellaneous Control
Flags: fast devsel
Kernel driver in use: k10temp

00:18.4 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 11h Processor Link Control
Flags: fast devsel

02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200M G] (rev a2) (prog-if 00 [VGA controller])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 360a
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 21
Memory at c1000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16M]
Memory at d0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
Memory at c4000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
I/O ports at 4000 [size=128]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at c6000000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [60] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [68] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
Kernel driver in use: nouveau

07:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR242x / AR542x Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Device 137b
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
Memory at c2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable- Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit-
Capabilities: [60] Express Legacy Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [90] MSI-X: Enable- Count=1 Masked-
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
Kernel driver in use: ath5k

jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $

Please post the result of:

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Evening Longhorn,

And the result of the ath5k probe is:

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jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo grep ath5k /etc/modprobe.d/*
[sudo] password for jacko:
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-ath_pci.conf:# which ath5k cannot recover. To prevent this condition, stop
jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $

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I presume this is not good on the part of the WiFi card???

So I proceeded to remove the card.......poked it about and then fixed it back in place......it worked!!!! for about 20 seconds and it was gone again, so had a couple of more goes at removing and replacing but could not replicate the initial success, so I presume it is more than a bad contact.....Hmm! I have ordered a new card at more than a fair price in case that is the problem.....what do you think?

Cheers Pozzouk.

The response you got from the command is the standard you would expect. Just checking to see if a ath5k blacklist entry showed up. It did not (only a #comment), so no problem there.

If you have ordered a new card already, I hope that one works well for you.

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before trying to connect run the following command
and see if that helps. what it does is turn off power saving mode.

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Pozzouk,

This may not do any harm, do this just in case your wlan device is in encryption mode, get a terminal and be root. Issue this:
or you may edit the file manually whichever you prefer. Then follow that with these commands:
Your device is a friendly brand. If it is in good order it should work fine.

Hope that helps. Good luck.

m.m.

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Good morning purple,

Ran the above and got this below:

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jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo iwconfig wlan0 power off
[sudo] password for jacko:
Error for wireless request "Set Power Management" (8B2C) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Operation not supported.
jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $

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Not sure if that was what was expected?

Cheers Pozzouk.

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jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo cho "options ath5k nohwcrypt=1" | tee /etc/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf
tee: /etc/modprobe.d/ath5k.conf: Permission denied
[sudo] password for jacko:
sudo: cho: command not found
jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo sudo modprobe -rfv ath5k
jacko@jacko-Compaq-Presario-CQ60-Notebook-PC ~ $ sudo sudo modprobe -v ath5k
insmod /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko
insmod /lib/modules/3.13.0-24-generic/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.ko
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m.m. Not sure if the above is relevant as I have the wireless card removed at the moment and replacement due tomorrow in the post for less than a couple of £££pounds.......Not sure if this alternative card is going to help me but nothing else seems to have thrown any light on the situation.

However, I removed the card a day or two back and on refitting I did have wireless for a few minutes - then it was gone again!!!!

What also came to notice, was that my blue wifi light could not be turned off at all........it only stayed orange while booting up - now it is removed the light is orange at all times.........I guess I will have a better idea if there is something quirky about the incumbent one when the alternative hopefully arrives tomorrow??????

As ever - thanks for all the help guys.

Pozzouk.