After upgrading my good ol’ PC to Dapper, I proceeded to download and burn a copy of it for PowerPC systems, and I have managed to install it in my old faithful G3 iBook in dual boot, with Mac OS X 10.2 “Jaguar” on the other partition. Here’s how I did it. Continue reading
Category Archives: Ubuntu
How to install the Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter in Ubuntu 6.06 “Dapper”
“Dapper”, the new version of Ubuntu has been released yesterday! So I downloaded the ISO file, burn the CD down and proceeded to install it over my old Breezy Kubuntu installation.
Of course, I wanted to use my good’ old Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter with Broadcom chipset, and I was lucky enough to find this page:
It describes the whole Broadcom problem in Ubuntu, and gives the instructions needed to make the card work in Dapper:
- Follow the instructions in http://www.kosmaczewski.net/blogs/tech/archives/2006/02/how_to_install_1.php from steps 1 to 7 (step 8 cannot be done, yet)
- Type “echo ‘blacklist bcm43xx’ | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist”
- Type “sudo rmmod bcm43xx”,
“sudo rmmod ndiswrapper” and
“sudo modprobe ndiswrapper” - Do the step 8 of http://www.kosmaczewski.net/blogs/tech/archives/2006/02/how_to_install_1.php
And that’s it! You’ve got the wireless card ready for use.
:) I’m happy to have found that page! It seems that the Broadcom drivers that come with Dapper do not work with all concerned wireless cards, so the thing is to “blacklist” them, and then to load ndiswrapper that works perfectly well.
Kubuntu 5.10 and the Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter
OK, so this time I’ve tried to make the same I’ve described before, but for Kubuntu 5.10. I have changed to Kubuntu since I like KDE more than gnome, and also, Kubuntu seems to run faster than Ubuntu. And so I said to myself, OK, these are the same guys who make Ubuntu and Kubuntu, the wireless stuff should work fairly easily. After all it’s the same kernel…
Wrong. Continue reading
Get the facts – I mean, get them
If you enjoy Microsoft PR material, you may find this “Get the facts” page somewhat interesting. For those of us who really deal with MS and Open Source stuff day by day, please just don’t laugh too loud.
My CV says I’m a “.NET blah blah blah”, and I’ve spent most of my professional life using and deploying MS technology. But you know what? I’ve had too many headaches with it. There’s always a gotcha; you cannot rely in their technology to do things more complicated that what the “getting started” demos say at first glance. Their APIs are often not completely implemented, and you cannot modify them if needed. You have to find workarounds to do things that you need, because their support website says that they won’t fix that problem until the next service pack, or worse, until the next version. And so on.
For example, in .NET 2.0 you can serialize DataTable instances into XML natively; nice. You can then use them (even if it’s not the best practice) as the result of a web service call. Cool. But did you know that the WSDL.EXE utility included in .NET 2.0 does not handle DataTable as return type for a web service? This is not documented either (at least I haven’t found it), so that the proxy generated by WSDL.EXE is completely flawed and you don’t know why your application does not work… until you Google on it. And since you cannot change it nor fix it, you are stuck to find another alternative.
They have a great contradiction between their approach to first-time users and hardcore development. There’s a mismatch; it just does not work the way they say it should. Continue reading
How to install Skype in Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy”
Another little one :) These articles are not only for you, but also for me, in case I need this information in the future…
OK, so you know that there is a Linux version of Skype, right? And you would like to have it in your Ubuntu installation, then follow these steps:
- Download the skype_1.2.0.11_i386.deb file to your Desktop (I found that in this page, thanks for the package!)
- Open up a terminal window, cd to your Desktop and type “dpkg -i skype_1.2.0.11_i386.deb” (I found that in this page, thanks for the tip!)
- Now if you go to your Applications / Internet menu you will see a “Skype” entry; try to open it, and you will not be able to! This is because you must install the libqt3c102-mt libraries (try to launch directly Skype from the Terminal and you will see the error)
- Open up System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager and search for libqt3c102-mt; install them.
- Now Skype should work (in my laptop it takes a while to load… be patient!)
Why can’t you just use Synaptic Package Manager? Well, because if you add the line deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list file, and then try to use the Package Manager to install Skype, then you will get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: skype: Depends: libqt3c102-mt (>= 3:3.3.3.2) but 3:3.3.3-7ubuntu3 is to be installed E: Broken packages
(This is explained in this page, thanks guys!)
How to install Eclipse/RadRails in Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy”
Another quick “how to” for Ubuntu: Sam Ruby posted enough information to make Eclipse work under Ubuntu “Breezy” (the default installation, via System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager has problems when using the “Help / Software Updates” function, used to install RadRails…)
Go to this page and get the job done! http://www.intertwingly.net/blog/2005/10/26/RadRails-Eclipse-on-Breezy-take-1
How to install the Linksys WPC54GS Wireless-G Network Adapter in Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy”
Well, that was a long title.
My mother recently changed her 4-year old Dell Inspiron 4100 for a brand new iMac G5, so I took that old laptop (20 GB hard disk, 256 MB RAM) and, after backing up her data, wiped it completely and reinstalled it with the following configuration:
- Windows 2000 Professional SP4 (I just hate Windows XP, and think that Windows 2000 is the best ever Windows)
- Ubuntu 5.10 “Breezy”
Then I bought a Linksys Wireless-G Notebook Adapter with SpeedBooster, to be able to use my wireless connection at home (in 2002 Dell notebooks did not have wireless LAN adapters by default). Of course, installing it in Windows 2000 was easy, but the difficult part was to have it running in Ubuntu… Continue reading
Similar logos
I have signed again with the Martin Ennals Foundation to take care of their website again; if you don’t know it yet, the MEF gives a yearly prize to a Human Rights defender, providing press coverage as well as much needed protection. The MEF is composed of 10 Human Rights organizations, among them Amnesty and Human Rights Watch.
And while preparing some stuff, I was struck by the similarity between the logos of Ubuntu and the Human Rights First organization, another member of the MEF:
Update, 2006-05-13:
Here you are, more similar logos:
Prodem Fondo Financiero Privado:
Scripps Health: A World of Healing (courtesy of http://www.brandinfection.com/2005/04/25/msn-spaces-steals-ubuntu-logo/):
Don’t hesitate to send me more if you find any!
Ubuntu and the iBook sleep / wake
Well the only problem found so far with Ubuntu is that the computer hang when I sent it to sleep (closing the lid of the iBook). When re-opening the lid, the computer would become unresponsive.
This post gives the exact procedure to do to solve it, until a fix comes in the next Ubuntu kernel…
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-2368.html
Only thing: in the scripts, replace “dbus-1″ by “dbus” both in the name and the contents. This way it worked without problems on my G3 800 Mhz iBook…
Ubuntu
This is my first post from a brand new world.
I have just installed Ubuntu 5.10 (“Breezy”) in my G3 iBook, and so far I just love it. Fast, stable, incredibly easy to set up. The whole install took 45 minutes (10 minutes copying stuff from the CD to the hard disk, and then 35 minutes configuring itself). Ubuntu recognized every bit of hardware of this machine, from the Airport card to the trackpad and the Ethernet adapter. It comes with OpenOffice, GIMP and much more pre-installed, and I really find it easy to use. Very intuitive user interface, really great operating system. And free and open source.
Now I’m following the instructions in http://www.fo64.com/articles/2005/10/20/rails-on-breezy for installing Ruby on Rails on this brave new system.
I really look forward to use Ubuntu in my everyday work. I plan to use it as the default system for this laptop for a while. Stay tuned…