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Acer Extensa 5520 wireless problem under linux

This laptop has a Broadcom 4311 wireless adapter and it doesn’t work under openSUSE. An ifconfig eth1 up shows
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
It turns out that we must patch the firmware although the bcm43xx driver is included in kernel 2.6.22:
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o
wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/bcm43xx/fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2
tar -xzf bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2
bcm43xx-fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta -3.130.20.0.o

Reboot, and voila … there is wireless
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Posted 29 October 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

openSUSE 10.3 typopgraphy is suprisingly good

I must say incredible good looking. Even better than Windows typography. Heck, if Ubuntu’s fonts were this good … Maybe because of the 19″ monitor ?
The only thing you need to do is to install MS font pack and the default dpi setting need to be tuned. But it looks so good that I’m thinking [...]

Posted 25 October 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: ,

Run Cygwin on Vista as Administrator

Errm … as we already know, our admistrator account (the one that we use to log onto Vista) doesn’t really have access permission to all over the system. So when you do make install in cygwin you have permission error. The workaround is to activate the real Administrator account:
Right click on Computer and choose Manage. [...]

Posted 14 October 2007 § ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Synchronizing between Sony Ericsson w810i and Evolution using USB cable.

First, you must install OpenSync, an open source synchronization framework at http://www.opensync.org/wiki/download, either compile from source or use the pre compiled packaged for Ubuntu from this repository. Please note that the version numbers of OpenSync and it’s plugins must match. I installed the following packages:

OpenSync
Msynctool
Evolution 2 plugin
SyncML plugin (this plugin requires libsyncml)

After finishing the [...]

Posted 11 October 2007 § ‡ Comments (1) °

First time with a VPS

Just moved this site to a VPS. Having your own hosting box is quite cool ( well it’s not actually a box ). I reckon that the site loads much faster now.

Posted 13 July 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged:

Write a blog post with Word 2007

I really like the new Office 2007 suite with the new layout that is very easy to use. But recently I’ve found another great feature of Word 2007 to love it even more: You can edit and send posts to your blog without going to the blog admin page.
Ok assume you already have Office 2007 [...]

Posted 05 May 2007 § ‡ Comments (0) °