Sunday, December 7, 2008

Replacing network cards under Ubuntu: eth0 missing

If you change network adapters and are running Ubuntu you may notice that eth0 no longer exists but your new adapter shows up as eth1, or eth2, eth3, etc. To fix this, just clear the contents of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persitent-net.rules and reboot.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Dell E6400 and BartPE - Intel 82567lm drivers

I could not get bartpe to recognize the Intel 82567lm NIC in the Dell E6400 using the Dell drivers. The latest driver from Intel does work, however.

Intel Driver

Extract the files, copy the contents of the WinXP_2K folder to your BartPE drivers folder (make a folder called intel and then drop the driver files in there).

Dell Latitude E6400 Unknown USB Device VID_413c PID_8149

If you have a Dell Latitude E6400 series with the Ultra Wide Band USB adapter and you can't find drivers for the Unknown USB device (VID_413 & PID_8149), try these drivers:

Dell Wireless 410 BT+UWB Minicard

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Links in Outlook: This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator.

If you get the following message when clicking links in Outlook:
"This operation has been canceled due to restrictions in effect on this computer. Please contact your system administrator."

This is caused by an incorrect or corrupted registry key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\htmlfile\shell\open\command


The key should read:

"C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE\" -nohome


Or in the case of Windows XP x64:

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE\" -nohome