[Resolved] Tamil Nadu Free Laptop Touchpad not works or not Detected

Recently got a chance to have a hands-on at the two of the Tamil Nadu government’s offered free laptop to the students which came along with dual boot operating system “BOSS Linux” and ” Microsoft Windows 7 Starter Edition “.

When booted into BOSS Linux, the Touchpad / Trackpad in both two of the Laptops which we had a hands-on was not working and was also not deteced. So the Synaptics touchpad driver needed for the Touchpad / Trackpad to work was not present by default, so if you have found laptops with this problem try downloading Synaptics touchpad driver and double click it to install it. Since BOSS Linux is built based on the Debian operating system, the file which you have downloaded is a deb file.

In one of the two laptops, Trackpad is not working in Windows too. If you ever find any TN Laptop with Trackpad not working under BOSS Linux install the above Driver and it should work. If it doesn’t works even after that please drop your comments, we would help you to work it on.

Please comment only if you encounter problem in GNU/Linux. We do not undertake any queries regarding Windows as we are here to help Linux Users.

Minutes of 1 day workshop on NS-2

Hello all, here we share you all, the minutes of Workshop on NS-2 conducted by PuduvaiLUG on March 10th, 2012.
Mr. Suresh Kumar, who has got 10 years of experience in the field of Networking and an CISCO Certified Professional handled the complete session.

8:30 Am: We got the place from Ocean Academy to conduct the Workshop and our Organizers made the seminar hall ready in just few minutes by arranging the chairs, putting the room temperature at cool, setting up the projector and necessary extension box for powering the projector and laptops for use during the Workshop. Participants have started to reach the place after all the arrangements were made.

9:00 Am: Mr. Suresh Kumar arrived at our place and we received him and took him to the seminar hall and he started to connect his laptop to projector to get started.

9:30 Am: On-spot registrations were done.

10:00 Am: By this time everyone has arrived and we have started our workshop. Initially it was a theory session where Mr. Suresh Kumar was covering the Basics of Simulation and what is the use of NS-2. The session went for about 4 hours with the mix of both theory and hands-on.

1:30 Pm: We took a break for a lunch and returned back at2:30 Pm

2:30 Pm: He covered the rest of the workshop agenda and waited for queries and feedback from the attendees and clarified the queries of them too.

3:30 Pm: We thanked Mr. Suresh Kumar for his useful session and at the end we played a video on “Open Sourced future ” which was taken form TEDx event, and here is the link for the video. At the end of this video we spoke about being Open and the importance of being open. We winded up the session and everyone thanked for the workshop and started to leave the place and we cleaned the place and returned back to Ocean Academy.

List of attendees of workshop:
1. K. ELAKIA
2. A. RAJESH
3. S. SUSAIRAJ
4. V. HEMAMALINI
5. M. LALITH KUMAR
6. R. RAGAVI
7. R. JAYAPRIYA
8. K. SHAKTHI GAYATHARY
9. R. VENKATESH
10. R. SURESH
11. A. KANNAN
12. A. VENKADESAN
13. R. SRINIVASAN

Snaps during session:-

It was fun working as a community, learning and sharing knowledge with others. Certificate will be provided for the attendees of the workshop.

P.S:-  If you are looking for help in NS-2, You can feel free to contact Mr. Suresh kumar (sureshkumarr.s@gmail.com ).

[Closed] Upcoming FOSS Workshops around us!

The most enthusiastic thing about the Free Sotware / Free Open Source Software is always the Community behind it. These communities will always be functioning with loads of fun in their events and makes every single thing interesting.

PuduvaiLUG is proud to shout that we are one such community.

Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) – Chennai is conducting a 2 day event named CARTE BLANCHE. This happens every year and it focuses on the Events, Demos and Workshops on Free Open Source Software (Free Software).