Re: [ilugd] drivers for broadcom bcm4312 802.11b/g(rev 01) on centOS
The following page has native Linux drivers that you can compile for the bcm43xx chipsets: http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php Also, you could try using the drivers from this Feisty HowTo for ndiswrapper. They've sourced them from the Compaq website(step 2b for bcm4312 revision 01) and used cabextract. Or you could use the ZIP file here - http://uploading.com/files/VXHOYZLY/bcm4312rev01.zip.html On 30-Apr-09, at 5:30 AM, gurteshwar singh wrote: Hi, I am trying to configure wireless on my Dell inspiron 15 notebook using centOS. This may seem like a repost. I had asked this question about a month back but then i went home and had no wireless available so wasn't able to try any of the suggestions. As suggested by Raj and Karanbir I downloaded the driver for xp from the dell website and tried to install it using ndiswrapper. I unzipped the .exe and installed netathw.inf. ndiswrapper -l tells me invalid driver! I expected this since the dell website states that the xp driver applies to only the Wireless 1515 (11agn) WLAN half mini-card (Atheros). I have a Dell Wireless 1397 802.11b/g Half Mini Card. The driver for Vista seems to support this card. The problem now is that I am unable to extract the .inf (or anything else) from .exe provided for vista. I tried unzip, cabextract and even wine, but all failed. Any help would be appreciated. Regards, guru ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?
On 17-Apr-09, at 2:55 PM, Shiv wrote: The airport express card used in most Macbooks uses the Broadcom chipset (which is not well supported in Linux). I think the Broadcom chipsets used in MacBooks don't work out of the box on Ubuntu but they work flawlessly using madwifi. If you have access to an ethernet connection, or if you have wireless access on another computer you'll be able to download what's necessary to use your card. But I don't think Niyam is talking about the AirPort Extreme wireless cards. I think he's talking about Apple's little AirPort Express router. Correct me if I'm wrong. -- Abhishek Nandakumar http://xabhishek.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] apple airport express on ubuntu with foss apps?
You may find this thread useful: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=192806 On 17-Apr-09, at 4:05 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, thanks for your responses. i am talking about the apple airport express base station. specifically, this router has a neat little 'audio-output' port built into it. here's the horrendously-cryptic url: http://store.apple.com/us/product/MB321LL/A i've connected my JBL speakers to the wi-fi router's audio-poart. anyone who uses iTunes on a mac may wirelessly stream music across these airwaves to these speakers. how do i get the same magic to work with auntie ubuntu, using muft and mukt softwear ? that is the question. regards niyam ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Abhishek Nandakumar http://xabhishek.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] apple FUD on freeware vs foss
The description does say free, open source. Freeware is in reference to price. On 26-Mar-09, at 11:57 PM, Linux Lingam wrote: dear all, am hugely dismayed to note that a company that obviously understands foss, adn cleverly uses foss tools to its advantage, spreads the fud about foss by calling it freeware. here they are calilng 'audacity' freeware, among several dozen examples i found: http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/audio/index3.html that's like calling an apple, a pineapple. regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Abhishek Nandakumar http://xabhishek.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] apple FUD on freeware vs foss
Freeware must not be confused with FOSS. Freeware simply means - does not require payment for use. Which is the case for Audacity. On 27-Mar-09, at 1:53 AM, Chetan Thapliyal wrote: There are other applications also (not mentioned as open source) that have been listed as freeware. So what's the point if some open source application has been mentioned as freeware? -- Abhishek Nandakumar http://xabhishek.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] blog post about freed.in day 2 (shirish)
Hi all, Sorry for posting it this late, but here's another blog post to add to the list: http://xabhishek.com/2009/03/01/freedin-2009/ Cheers, Abhishek On 01-Mar-09, at 10:25 PM, gurteshwar singh wrote: From: shirish shirisha...@gmail.com Subject: [ilugd] blog post about freed.in day 2 Hi all, Day 2 now online (sans photos) apologize for the same. http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/freed-day-2/ -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal Hi all, Dear Shirish, I read your posts about freed.in day-2. A few things I wish to point out regarding your take on my talk. From your post http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com/2009/02/27/freed-day-2/ The real story which he forgot was that the year after, ERNET was up and shell accounts were starting to give people which dried up the business of BBS overtime. Not something I forgot but was actually aware of. It would've made sense to include, if I was giving an elaborate account of the business history of BBS overtime. My whole point was how people got together on the boards(i cant call it the internet :-)) for speaking against something they didn't like or thought was unfair and how it actually resulted in action on ground. My not including or as you say forgetting what happened to the BBS business after that does not dispute my claim in any way. Also, I thought it to be irrelevant to the given context. His 2 second plug www.indiasopinion.com as his take on where this can be taken forward. This is completely misunderstood. Maybe I did not do well enough to get my point across clearly to you. If you asked Kishore, I think he would recall that after the first volunteer meet, I had quite a detailed discussion with him regarding my talk. I even asked him if I should completely remove any mention of my 2 second plug as the idea was to bring forward the research that showed how the information we seek online is directly proportional to the opinions we form and communicate. And how these two also happen to be the primary activities of all users. My effort was to pitch these ideas and research to an audience with way more advanced technical skills than mine, so that they could try and decide how it can be taken forward. Sadly, as of now my skills are limited to system/network administration. I am not(yet) a developer. The only little contributions I could make were via Wordpress, which I had been checking out for some time. Hence, my 2 second plug which I think is by no means conclusive. A lot can and I think needs to be done to take this forward. My take, watch out for wordpress+buddypress, that should be a killer thing to look at ;) Great. Thanks for letting me know of this. Looks very good. Perhaps if it could be integrated via a facebook app, the problem of first establishing a large user base would diminish. Regards, guru ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Abhishek Nandakumar http://xabhishek.com ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
Re: [ilugd] Blog post about Freed.in Day 1
Even if you don't want to talk about the license you can at least give credit to the person(with the name being linked to the flickr photo page) who has uploaded the photographs, something like Uploaded by: XYZ or Photo credit: XYZ. Of course, if you were using your own photos then this discussion isn't of much importance. But apparently, that isn't the case. On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 6:42 PM, shirish shirisha...@gmail.com wrote: Reply in-line :- On 28/02/2009, Linux Lingam linuxlin...@gmail.com wrote: how to use cc-licensed works: under the photo or hte authored work, mention three things: 1. author (who owns the copyright). with the copytight symbol or word, used before this. 2. the year, date, of the copyright (feb 2009) 3. the cc-license being used, in this case, cc-by-3.0 or whatever. a brief sentence (not para) describing he license, and a link to more details of the license. Agree with all the above. The only query I have how if one is taking three disparate photographs from a pool. The freed.in flickr pool has three main contributors afai could look linux lingam, ramky and one more person (IIRC) . Let's say hypothetically if I took all the three photographs (randomly) which were from a pool (like the freed.in flickr pool) wouldn't it be tedious saying this one is from this person and the CC license and whatever rather than just giving link to the freed.in pool (as attribution) . Also the authors may choose to have any of the six or remixed versions of those licenses. Can always update my blog with the way given above, but would like to discuss this a bit more. hope this helps. (typed on my mobile with proper english spellings.) regards niyam -- niyam bhushan ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/ -- Abhishek Nandakumar http://www.xabhishek.com/ ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
[ilugd] freed.in
How should students from Delhi University go about volunteering for freed.in? Students at Acharya Narendra Dev College were the first to embrace GNU/Linux in Delhi University. Students at our college would like to give their inputs at freed.in as well. Thanks, Abhishek Nandakumar BSc. (Hons.) Computer Science ___ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
