Category Archives: Fedora 9

Fedora 8, Fedora 9, Linux

Enabling WiFi in Fedora 9 HP 6515b using Ndiswrapper

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1) You got  to have GCC 4+ and MAKE installed in your system to compile Ndiswrapper(get them from dvd)

2)in terminal go to the directory containig ndiswrapper tarball package (type following commands as super user -> su or sudo -i

3)make

4)make install

5)See COMMON STEPS

Alternate:

1) If you got the live cd be prepared to download and install gcc from internet ( connect to friends comp)

or download and install the packages:

binutils
gcc
kernel-headers
dkms
glibc-devel
libgomp
dkms-ndiswrapper
glibc-headers
kernel-devel
make

COMMON STEPS

1)/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (this is the win xp driver obtain it from windows installation or setup given by hp)

2)use “/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -m”

3)use “/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -mi”

4)use “/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -ma”

5)gedit “/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist”

add following lines ->

blacklist b43

blacklist ssb

3)Reboot and see if the wifi networks are shown if not use “/sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper”

and add the same line to /etc/rc.local

IF THE ABOVE STEPS DON’T WORK PLEASE TELL ME THE EXACT PROBLEM.

PEOPLE WITH OTHER WIRELESS CARDS TRY SAM PROCCEDURE WITH DIFFERENT DRIVER (MAKE SURE YOU ARE INSTALLING THE WIRELESS CARD DRIVER AND NOT THE CONTROLLER DRIVER)

Fedora 8, Fedora 9, Linux

Download Accelerators For Linux

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    Download Accelerators For Linux

1)Axel : Download from http://axel.alioth.debian.org/ current version = 1.1

Simple command line downloader.

Simple GUI using Zenity:

#!/bin/sh

url=`zenity --title="Axel " --text="Enter url" --entry`
user=`zenity --title="Axel " --text="Enter username" --entry`
pass=`zenity --title="Axel " --text="Enter password" --entry`

axel http://"$user":"$pass"@"$url"

Remember url shud not have “http://”

ps: if you don’t want user name password

#!/bin/sh

url=`zenity --title="Axel " --text="Enter url" --entry`

axel "$url"

Here url needs “http://”

2)Aria2: command line download client which supports resuming and segmented downloading

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aria2

GUI:

http://www.martin-achern.de/wgetgui/aria2gui.html

Fedora 9, Linux

Fedora 9 rocks !!!

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Well am writing this post from fedora 9 and least to say it rocks !!!

The major fixes inculude pirut being replaced by Package Kit which consumes less memory (phew i can still remember yum directly consuming about 200 MB of precious ram) and has a faster download rate (yipee i don’t have to use smart anymore). A lot of security upgrades such as mounting lock giving access to root / sudoers only.

-A seperate bootloader option ( to view only + change boot time.)

-Gnome 2.22

– Ahhhh direct graphical boot for my ati 1250 express radeon chipset (though no default working 3d effects)

-Default games pretty much same (ok its not that i can beat the comp in chess !!)

– Firefox 3 beta 5 default browser much faster than 2 consumes less memory .

-Lot more but go read it yourself in the documentation !! (see install pics though)