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I have Ubuntu 9.10. I have a Samsung S7 HD bluetooth headset. Headset shows a green flashing line meaning its paired. Also, I get pop-up windows asking to confirm the Bluetooth device telling me its...

I could establish wireless internet by downloading the drivers using a wired connection. SUmmarizing my recent thread learnings - Following could be useful if you too have broadcom card. to check...

Combination of above Worked for me ... However, I had a wired connection to download.

1) Connect wired connection using NIC ethernet

2) do update and upgrade:

sudo apt-get install...

I don't know much about Ubuntu ... however, remeber to came across this recently ...May be step '4a' explanation in this help you:

< https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 >

samasat

mherman's suggestion could be useful if someone has internet connection ... may not be possible for people like me who are still strugglling to get wireless working :(

Thanks Balak.

I found your HOW TO posting useful. I can use the touchpad now and I am really booting using Upgraded Ubuntu unlike earlier where I was still in Ubuntu 2.6.28-11 kernel.

However,...

Thanks Balak !!

After following the instruction 1 in your edited post I got it straight ...

just for information...some detailed info about it for other NewB's like me looking for help :
1)...

just to add to my struggle so far I looked in some other threads and commented out the the last 'blacklist ***' line in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist**pci.conf file. It did NOT help me to restore...

Thanks Plumtreed.
I hope my problem is the grub2 affair. A new problem surfaced when I was following the instruction in the suggested link. I found that the internet wireless connection is turned...

No unless you are expert in ubuntu !

I did take a risk and now i am trapped as keypad, sound don't work and wireless internet connection has been turned off internally. I cannot turn internet off...

Thanks Plumtreed,

I am finding that my kernel is 2.6.28-11-generic.
Wht can i do to make it 2.6.31-14 ? ...will it affect the dual boot I set up to use windowsXP?

-samasat

Thanks Balak.

I got output for :
dmes | grep psmouse and
lsmod | grep psmouse

However, there is no psmouse.conf file in /etc/modprobe.d/ to modify.

Thanks Girto and Pepe ..

However, problem is that I can not use touchpad for mouse movement to go to any preference setting and I am not a skilled user of the command prompt.

Also, Fn + F8...

For mee too .... Main issue is touchpad stopped working ! ... totally helpless now.

I guess touchpad issue may be system depepndent.

Regarding sound, someone posted some suggestions in other...

Hi,

I am newB to Ubuntu. I earlier was using Ubuntu9.04 and recently upgraded to the 9.10 using Update manager. However, after restart my touchpad has stopped working totally. :( . Being GUI...

ignore this . .. I had wrongly posted reply to other thread !! :(