I have just booted my new Pi for the first time and after entering startx I am greeted by the desktop with the message: GDBus.Error.org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: Cannot determine user of subject

When I press ok the message disappears and everything seems to work ok.

Any ideas?

With the terminal command, wget -O /dev/null http://speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com/do ... test10.zip

Have just tried it again and get a speed of 4.8mbps

Thanks for reply.

Hi to all, have changed a wireless ethernet connection to a hard wired one to overcome the issue of the connection continously dropping, this is now fine. However have run a download speed test on the pi and only get 3mbps, I have a broadband router that delivers in the region of 20/25 mbps to a wir...

Thanks for your advice, will have a go at following it as soon as am able. The forum makes things so much better for me and others as although I still stumble around in the dark, to some degree I do see glimmers, I wouldnt say light, if not at the tunnels end at least showing the way.

Hi all, having had help from the Forum on a WiFi issue I now need assistance again, as a precurser to attempting to set up a NAS I decided to firstly add an external hard drive, before connection I installed ntfs-3g then connected a Samsung 3TB external HD to my USB hub, before I could begin to use ...

Thanks again for the tip, the dongle appears to be working fine now, thanks again.

Thanks for your tip, will try it now.

Hi all from a mature newbie :) I am slowly getting used to the pi but have hit a couple of issues head on, I am using a powered usb hub and when I add a wifi dongle to either the hub or the pi itself I connect without any issues to my router, however after a short time I lose the connection and cant...