heres a good howto, so have a read for those of you with broadcom wireless nics and Fedora Core Release 5

 

cheers

 

anyweb

 

Quote:From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>Subject: Re: FC5 with bcm43xx support (HOWTO)

To: Robert Allerstorfer <roal@anet.at>

Cc: fedora-ppc@lists.infradead.org, fedora-test-list@redhat.com,

linville@redhat.com

Message-ID: <1143283932.28632.83.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

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Cross-posting since I was planning to send something like this anyway. I

was going to wait till the kernel and bcm43xx-fwcutter were actually in

the repositories and thus skip the first couple of paragraphs, but since

I've been asked....

 

 

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 03:13 +0100, Robert Allerstorfer wrote:

> are there any step-by-step instructions on how to enable bcm43xx

> support on Fedora Core 5 ppc? I think the default 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5

> kernel should be good.

 

If you haven't already done so, update to the 2.6.16-1.2071_FC5 or later

kernel, from [/url]http://people.redhat.com/davej/kernels/Fedora/FC5/ if it

isn't in the official repos yet. The bcm43xx driver _does_ work in the

2054 release kernel, and I've been using it like that for months, but

it's far less picky about its initialisation in 2071, and doesn't lose

the network every time NetworkManager scans -- so for the sake of the

HOWTO it's just easier if you upgrade. The improvements to the driver

_will_ be in the official kernel update when it eventually comes out.

 

Install the bcm43xx-fwcutter package from Extras. It's in extras-devel,

but not yet in extras-fc5 yet because my request to create the branch

hasn't been honoured yet. There's a copy of it at

http://david.woodhou.se/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003-2.ppc.rpm (there's also

i386 and src rpms there).

 

(By next week, hopefully the above will be reduced to

'yum update kernel ; yum install bcm43xx-fwcutter')

 

Then proceed as described

in /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003/README.Fedora:

 

As root, extract the firmware from your Windows or MacOS driver by

running the command

bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware <DRIVERFILE>

 

The README file in the same directory (not README.Fedora but just

README) contains a bunch of links to drivers if you don't have one.

Apparently, any of them should be OK; it doesn't matter which you use.

 

Load the driver by 'modprobe bcm43xx'. NetworkManager should work with

it, as should system-config-network and the standard initscripts.

 

WEP works, and according to my limited testing WPA works too, as long as

your AP is broadcasting its ESSID (that latter restriction seems to

apply to _many_ cards, in fact. There's a hack to work around it at

http://david.woodhou.se/wpa_supplicant-hack.patch)

 

We disabled the automatic loading of the bcm43xx driver in FC5 because

it's quite new and experimental, and partly because of the bugs which

have now been fixed in the 2071 kernel. To make sure the driver gets

loaded automatically, either add '/sbin/modprobe bcm43xx' to

your /etc/rc.local script, or copy the alias list

from /usr/share/doc/bcm43xx-fwcutter-003/modprobe.bcm43xx into

the /etc/modprobe.d directory, which tells the module loaded which PCI

IDs to associate with the bcm43xx driver.

 

Finally, give us feedback in bugzilla so we can know if/when we should

enable the driver by default again:

[url=https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186329]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=186329

 

Please leave feedback even if it's working -- if the only people we hear

from are those who can't get it to work, then we're _never_ going to

enable it by default. :)

 

If you can't get it to work, try bringing it up by hand using 'ifconfig'

and 'iwconfig' commands, and show/attach the kernel output ('dmesg')

from when you do so. Also try adjusting the rate (iwconfig eth1 rate 2M)

and setting the SSID again. We already default to 11M, but that might

not be slow enough in some situations -- we don't automatically fall

back when the link is poor, so you have to set the speed manually.

 

--

dwmw2

Well, hello again, linux-noobs. It's been a while. I figured I'd come back to the best linux help site for, well, some help!

 

I just installed Core 5 (a few times, actually) over FTP because I don't have any blank CDs left. It all works very well, just not very fast.

 

Fast forward to the real problem, whenever I shut down after logging in the first time, upon reboot it takes about 3-4 minutes to start sendmail and about a minute to start sm-client. WTF??

 

That, I can live with.

 

The really bad part is, after it boots, it freezes when X is supposed to start. So, I switched to singleuser and vim'd /etc/inittab to start in runlevel 3. That at least gives me a useable console. However, if I try startx or gnome-session it up and freezes on me. I "fixed" it one time by purposely breaking my xorg.conf, and was able to get back into the GUI, but it just borked itself again when I restarted!

 

Getting frustrated, even Gentoo is starting to look easy now!

And I would have stuck with that, if it didn't hate my integrated graphics card...

 

Any suggestions??

 

Thanks, LN!

So basicly I wanted to try out something other than Winblows for a change. So I ended up getting and installing Suse Linux 10.0. Seems preaty good and all that. I can do basic things with it. But question is how do I install/remove programs. Theres a bunch of programs that I won't use anymore and some programs that I want to install (Like GAIM). I'm getting irritated trying to figure out those damn readme's how to install. [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_wacko.png[/img]

Any help on how to do these basic things would be appreciated. Thanks.

This tutorial is going to be on iptables how to compile extensions which allow you to accomplish the following

tasks by just using iptables;

• Account - This allows you to take statistics of certain machines on your network e.g. how much bandwidth your web server uses
  
  
• Nth - This allows you to setup loading balance, who said you had to sped a lot of cash on this??
  
  
• XOR - This allows you to encrypt your traffic between two servers or between two networks
  
  
• ipp2p - This allows you to filter all the file sharing programs e.g. eDonkey, eMule, Kademlia, KaZaA, FastTrack, BitTorrent, etc
  
  
• Quotas - This allows you to set quotas on your network traffic e.g. once you have used 2Gig of bandwdith drop all other packets
  
  

• iptables source - Download from: [/url]http://www.netfilter.org/projects/iptables/downloads.html
  
  
• patch-o-matic - Downlaod form: http://ipset.netfilter.org/patch-o-matic-ng-20051203.tar.bz2
  
  
• Linux kernel source - Download from: www.kernel.org
  
  

Quote:if you want to balance the load to the 3 addresses 10.0.0.5, 10.0.0.6 and 10.0.0.7, then you can do as follows : 

# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 --every 3 --packet 0 -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.0.5

# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 --every 3 --packet 1 -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.0.6

# iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth0 -m nth --counter 7 --every 3 --packet 2 -j SNAT --to-source 10.0.0.7

Quote:iptables -A INPUT -m time --timestart 8:00 --timestop 18:00 --days Mon,Tue,Wed,Thu,Fri -j ACCEPT

Quote:iptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -m quota --quota 52428800 -j ACCEPTiptables -A INPUT -p tcp --dport 80 -j DROP

Ok, tonight has been the last straw and I want to ditch windows for good! Enough is enough :)

 

I want to use linux but I haven't got a clue where to start. I would say that I'm a intermediate PC user. The only problem that I fear, is that I won't be able to get some of my appz to work on linux :(

 

I want to be able to run..

 

Turbo Lister (eBay)

Firefox

Dreamweaver

Adobe Photoshop CS

Flash FTP (Or a similar FTP program, not fussed)

Thunderbird (again not fussed, any good'un will do)

Limewire (Possibly)

Frontpage (or a similar simple html editor)

ICQ

MSN

Winamp

Daemon Tools

 

And I want it to run without hitting loadsa bugs. I heard somewhere that you don't actually need virus protection with linux? don't know how true that is like o_O

 

Where do I need to start then? Any help would be very much appreciated! Mwah! ;):)

 

- Mizzy

Hi, I've been using windows for almost all my life, and I have become quite experienced over the years. And now i've decided to broaden my views and look in to linux. So I installed Suse 10 as dual boot on my laptop, and that worked fine, but now I want to learn the basic simple stuff, like: "How do I install a program?" I'm not yet so comfortable with the Consol, so if there is a way to do it in KDE I would prefer that.

 

THX

 

Maximvs

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Yesterday I installed Fedora Core 5 on a notebook, and there is no sound on the notebook. I am not a Linux expert, and it is the first time doing multumedia on a linux installations.

 

The notebook is based on the Intel 945NG Chipset, and utilises the Sigmatel STAC9200 CODEC for HD sound.

 

When I use headphones I can hear a very very faint noise when I play music. When I am unplugging the headphones, there is no sound at all, not that I can hear. All the volume controls have been tested at max, min etc. No change.

 

lol [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_ph34r.png[/img]

Hi, I'm installing linux on my computer for the first time. I have copies of both Suse and Mandriva on CD. I installed Suse on the new hard drive, and it works fine. The biggest problem is that I have to select which hard drive to boot from when I want to boot into Linux by pressing F11 on boot. I'm trying to have a menu where I can boot to either Suse or Windows XP. The problem I have is that Windows is on a SATA Raid Stripe, and Suse claims that it cannot read or recognize it. The Suse hard drive is connected through an IDE cable. Neither GRUB nor LILO will recognize that hard drive as a bootable hard drive.

 

I've tried using bootpart, but when I select the "linux" option I made, it just says GRUB on the screen, and freezes. Any ideas of how to get around this problem?