Getting wireless working on ubuntu machine

Please follow following steps blindly to get wireless working on ubuntu machine.Here are the steps...On a fresh clean Ubuntu machine:1. Disable the "Support for Atheros 802.11 wireless LAN cards" on Hardware Drivers, and reboot your box.2. In a terminal:2.1 Updates all package lists# sudo apt-get update2.2 Update driver.# sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-intrepid-generic3. Reboot.Thanks to Gautam, … Continue reading Getting wireless working on ubuntu machine

Converting dos(windows) files to unix files

While using windows we get ^M characters in files that will get displayed when you open files on unix machines.To remove such ^M characters,Install dos2unix package usingsudo apt-get install sysutilsConvert individual filedos2unix file_pathRun following command to convert recursively all the files inside directory.find . -type f -exec dos2unix {} \;sudo apt-get install sysutils