Running a dual-boot with Vista and Ubuntu...

Vista froze on me and I had to reboot. After booting back into Ubuntu I had no sound except a crackling.

But it didnt seem to be a hardware thing because booting back into Vista, audio worked fine.

Turns out this thread had the answer.

Somehow my PCM mixer got muted...all that was needed was to bring it back up with alsamixer -Dhw

so i installed some updates on my laptop this afternoon, only to find that after rebooting that network manager has completely stopped seeing my wireless.

in a friday-afternoon-gotta-fix-this panic (made worse by the fact that i need wifi to get online here) i loaded up my $100 laptop and got online and made a post on the ubuntu fourms: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6772296#post6772296