Yes, Gutsy’s Broadcom is Somehow Have The Bug

Few days ago, Fajar told me a bug about Gutsy’s bundled Broadcom driver that can’t get IP address from Linksys WRT45GL access point. And he pointed me to Invaleed’s blog that have the solution for it. At first, as always, I did not put so much attention since normally my wireless is fine (been use it at my university and no problem exist). But, yes I did download the ndiswrapper source and Broadcom driver (thanks to Kosha for downloading it for me), just in case if I need it.

And yes!! Today it’s happened. When I tried to get IP address from Kosha’s access point, bump!! It fail all the time. Three time of reboot didn’t solve anything. So, immediate treatment is started. And now, I can write this blog using wireless connection …

Huff … so, now … what shall I download … ^^

Firefox won’t browse, an IPv6 issue

I just found a bug (or maybe just -not-for-this-time-technology-issue-) that causing my notebook won’t browse anywhere. I found this bug this morning when I’m trying to connect my notebook (which now become my father/sister notebook) on his office …

Here are the symptoms:

1. I plugged the Wired LAN cable
2. I succesfully connected to DHCP server
3. I got an IP address
4. But I can’t browse anywhere! Firefox keeps telling me that she is “Waiting for google.com…”

So, with a little search on google (from another PC of course), I found that the bug is somehow associated with IPv6 DNS binding (or something like that, I’m not the expert here). So, the solution is go to Firefox, open “about:config” on the Address bar, and from the filter find “ipv6″. This will come with a line “network.dns.disableIPv6″. Double click that line so the Value will changed into “True” and restart Firefox.

Hope this will help someone ^^

PS: There is someone out there that suggesting if I want to disable ipv6 system-wide, then I should put a line “blacklist ipv6″ on /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist. I still don’t know how to test this, but for now I think my Dad is only need Firefox to run properly …^^

Update

With some googling again, I found another trick to disable IPv6 system-wide:

1. Open /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
2. Search for a line which have “alias net-pf-10 ipv6″, replace it with “alias net-pf-10 off #ipv6″
3. Open /etc/hosts
4. Comment out every line that have something to do with IPv6. In my case, I just comment out every line that have “ipv6″
5. For safety reason (gyagyagya I just love saying this line), reboot your box

I try this setting plus the blacklist trick and re-disabled the Firefox configuration I tell you before, and it works. One thing is until now Pidgin still can’t connect to Yahoo. Try to solve this later …

Widescreen Support for DOTA

How to make DOTA played on 1280 x 800 resulution? Just open ~/.wine/user.reg and edit this line …

 [Software\\Blizzard Entertainment\\Warcraft III\\Video] 1205852133

“resheight”=dword:00000320
“reswidth”=dword:00000500

I got this tip from this link.

And then there you go, widescreen support!!

PS:  00000320 is 800 in Hex, and 00000500 is 1280 in Hex.

Air!!!! Air!!!! Air = Air Is’t wateR …

Yeah … once I got enough money, I’ll definitely buy you (or maybe your younger sister)!!! Heheheee ^^

- the air is so light … I can’t even realized she was on my hand -

Gutsy and Broadcom Wireless Driver on Lenovo G400

For you who may not have internet access on your Lenovo G400 notebook (coz the wireless driver is disabled and of course you need that wireless to be enabled to access the internet ^^) and want to install it manually, here are step-and -stop howto and links.

1. Download  bcm43xx-fwcutter package from this link (just remember to pick the right driver for your architecture).
2. Right click on the package you’ve downloaded and choose : open with “GDebi Package Installer”, and let Ubuntu install it for you
3. Now download the broadcom firmware from here (PS: if this file has an owner, I’m really-really sorry if I have to re-upload it on another server coz I got it from my friend and he get it from bcm43xx-fwcutter automagic-download. If you are the owner or developer of it, and feel little bit angry for what I’ve done, please send me the right link for it).
4. Open : System > Administration > Restricted Drivers Manager. As you may seen before, the Broadcom module is disabled. Click on the checkbox and Ubuntu will open a confirmation dialog. Answer Yes for the question and now Ubuntu bring you another dialog box.
5. On that dialog box, there is an option to get the firmware from a file. Pick the file you’ve downloaded at step 3 and press OK.
6. Now your wireless is recognize, just try enabling it from the button on the right of your notebook. If you see that the wireless LED indicator is on, then happy browsing dude !!!

And oh, yeah … my apologize if my example is specific on Ubuntu (gnome). But for Kubuntu and Xubuntu I think it not much differ that these steps I gave you. Just twist your mind a little bit ^^

Activating innoDB on LAMPP

Few days ago, Ronald told me that LAMPP doesn’t support innoDB by default. At that time I don’t believe what he said. So, when today I looked at my just-moved-database (yeah, since I already moved to a new machine, so I have to move my database as well), as you may already guess, I was somehow surprised knowing that all of my “used-to-be-innodb” tables was now becoming MyISAM. So, it is true that by default LAMPP doesn’t support innoDB. Darn, do I must compile everything now? Since I already re-compile PHP5 included in the package to disable the SOAP module.

After some googling, I found an article at Vavai’s blog about it … So what I must do is just open the file /opt/lampp/etc/my.cnf and find the line that contains “skip-innodb” and comment it.

1 … 2 … 3 … restart lampp … and here you go, an innodb supported lampp. Umm, of course I must re-deploy my database from the begining. Uh oh … off I go then …

PS: yeah!!! Forza Viola, they beat Juventus!!! 2 – 3 and bye bye Milan ^^

Ubuntu 7.10 on Lenovo G400

After three years using Compaq M2232, few days ago my father call me and said that want he to take it and use it for my sister (since she must go to college and need a computer). So, it means I must find a new one for me (*giggles*). So, last Friday I went to some store and find new notebook. And you may believe or not, I spent 2.5 hours standing in front of the list of model just to find out wich one to buy. At first I want to buy Acer 4920 (which have ultimate specification and features on it, as you may see here), or Compaq 3736 (less spec and feature than that Acer), Lenovo Y410, or Lenovo G400. Well in the end I made up my mind and pick Lenovo G400, with financial and of course operating system reason. Yeah! Just like my old notebooks, I didn’t want this notebook to know Windows from the beginning.
And I didn’t want to waste my money to some features that I might not use. Better use it for buying a new shoes ^^

So, there I go, Rp 6.300.000,00 for a black G400 plus added 1G RAM (wich make it 2G of RAM). Yayyy!!!

And here are the result …

• Graphic Card is supported well, can run 1280 x 800 resolution
• Sounds is supported, but with a little bit trick if I’m using headsets. The speaker on the notebook is still creating a sound (eventough only a small sounds) everytime the headphone jack is plugged. So, I must mute the Front speaker to disable that sound leakage.
• Wireless must use the Restricted Driver Manager. Before it, I must install bcm43xx-fwcutter package so that Ubuntu could search for the right driver for it.
• CPU Frequency Scaling is works. Just one little annoying bugs is somehow with this Core Duo architecture the fan wont stop spinning all the time. Checked with temperature monitor it only shows 50 celcius degree. Dunno why, but hope that it wont break the fan.
• Multimedia button works, also volume and brightness button too.
• Visual Effect runs
• It fast!!!! 2G RAM is very very great! I could run both Eclipse and netbeans on the same time, plus with visual effect. Awesome ^^

Oh yea, and at last … I migrate to Gnome! Well, just looks for it’s minimalistic but elegant face. And of course, seeing KDE4 somehow dissapointed me T_T …

update: here are some screenshot