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Re-enable lower panel in Ubuntu

If accidentally you delete your lower panel in Ubuntu and could not bring it back after attempting several trials, you can try this below: gconftool-2 --shutdown rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel pkill gnome-panel I have tried this solution and it worked. The commands are originally taken from here http://lists.ethernal.org/oldarchives/cantlug-0610/msg00566.html

Wireless problem in vaio vgn-nr120e - S O L V E D

Wireless Problem on Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E - S O L V E D Finally I can connect to Internet through my wireless on my Vaio laptops I bought on boxing day last year. After googling and following some guides in Ubuntu forum http://ubuntuforums.org/ , the problem has been solved. What I have done to make it work was actually following this link http://home.nyc.rr.com/computertaijutsu/rhwireless.html#5007 suggested by somebody in the forum (check the forum if you encounter any problem). Here is the summary: 1. Download the madwifi from the link above 2. Install this tool to compile the source code: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` 3. Uninstall ndiswrapper or madwifi (if you have installed one of them before). Go to the directory and then do: sudo make uninstall sudo make clean 4. Untar the downloaded madwifi file sudo tar zxvf madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007.tar.gz cd madwifi-ng-r2756+ar5007 sudo make sudo make install blacklist the restri...