Andre Noel

Last week I had to install a M-AUDIO Fast Track Pro USB sound card on a computer with Ubuntu. Well, I’m not so good on audio subjects, so I asked Oraculo about ‘m-audio fast track ubuntu‘, where I found some good info.

But, to ease your work if you have to install such sound card, I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on how to install it on Ubuntu 8.04:

• Step 1: Plug the sound card on the computer via USB.

Thus, I finish the step-by-step tutorial.

When I connected the sound card, I looked what dmesg said. As I connected the USB, Ubuntu has registered the driver needed. So I tested and everything seemed ok.

Don’t you wonder why some operating systems ask you to install the driver from a CD?

On my last post I wrote about how to use your cell phone as a remote control on Ubuntu. On it, I wrote about how to use a modest cell phone (with bluetooth at least) to control OpenOffice.org presentations, games, etc.

Now I’m talking about a more advanced cell phone, the Nokia 6110. I started with file transfer. See how it is a simple thing to do on Ubuntu…

Using data cable

With any USB -> mini-USB data cable (it is included on cell phone pack), you just plug one side on the phone and the other side on the computer. The cell phone will ask you about connection type. Choose “Data trasfer”.

And voi lá, Ubuntu mounts it as a drive, like it does with a pen drive.

Using bluetooth

Right-click on the bluetooth applet (near the clock) on Ubuntu, then choose “Explore drive…”. Select the cell phone and answer it on the phone options (it will ask you a password that you define for the connection). And voi lá again, Ubuntu mounts it as a drive, like it does with a pen drive.

I prefer use the bluetooth way, because it’s simpler and it gives you the option to access the phone memory or the memory card as different drives.

On my next post I’ll talk about how to use Amora on this phone.

Yesterday I bought a Epson Stylus C92 printer (finally!). I will share about how to install it on Ubuntu.

First unpack it (the manual told to do so)…

Uh, another important thing the manual says is: Do not drink the ink!

After “unpack” as the manual says, plug the USB on the computer.

Wait 2 seconds.

Alright! Ther printer is now installed.

However, the C92 driver still isn’t on the foomatic package (accordind OpenPrinting database). Gutsy installs it with C88 driver, so it doesn’t works.

I tried to follow the instructions provided by OpenPrinting (ex-LinuxPrinting.org), and tried what they say on some foruns, but still doesn’t work.

So I installed TurboPrint. The driver works very well, but I’m not fully satisfied ’cause it’s not free software. I believe that soon it will be on foomatic or gutenprint.

So do this: download the turboprint driver (you could just click on “open with”, if you want to). Open the downloaded .deb file (will appears a window like that):

Click on “Install Package”.

After install it, you must just change the driver on the printer setup. Go to System > Administration > Printing. Select the printer e click o “Change” to change the driver:

After it, select Manufacturer and the option Epson_StylusC9x:

Go next and next… Your printer might be correctly installed on this moment. Print a test page and hug someone near you.