Comments for Mike Gerwitz

Comment on compgen -d: No such file or directory by Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:17:46 +0000

You rock, thanks!

Comment on Installing Gentoo Via Ubuntu & PAM Problems by rbu

rbu — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:21:20 +0000

Ahh, fuck — thats a bug 259954:
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=259954

boot from LiveCD:

# mount /dev/* /mnt/gentoo
# cd /mnt/gentoo
# cp /etc/resolv.conf etc
# chroot . /bin/bash
# emerge pambase
[ # emerge pam ]

Comment on Sansa e280v2 Regrets & Guide for GNU/Linux by Gordon

Gordon — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 23:46:25 +0000

Thanks for the excellent information! I have the new firmware, and tunes, tags, and art all working. I got one of these for xmas, and having my home computer on Ubuntu, wasn’t sure what to do.
Now to get the media converter to work. I tried that at work, since it’s all windoze there, but from my results and many online comments, this seems none too simple, even for microsoft users. What was Sandisk thinking?
Cain’t hardly wait until rockbox is ready!
Thanks again.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by azrirrahman

azrirrahman — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 13:54:51 +0000

i have acer 4310 portable laptop with broadcom wireless.

i have no conflict with hard ware in ubuntu 8.04

but i don’t know how to use wireless for my work

please help me

Comment on RT61 / RT2×00 RaLink Linux Driver Installation by RaLink Wireless - Random Disconnects (No ProbeResp)

RaLink Wireless - Random Disconnects (No ProbeResp) — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:32:27 +0000

[...] For settings up RaLink drivers for your wireless device, please see a previous entry: RT61 / RT2×00 RaLink Linux Driver Installation [...]

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Mike Gerwitz

Mike Gerwitz — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 02:05:35 +0000

Does wget work on its own? Try to download some file:

wget http://site.com/file

If it gives you the proxy error, check your proxy settings. Port 8080 sounds familiar – perhaps privoxy. I do not use a proxy so I’m not sure how to help.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Bill Ataras

Bill Ataras — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 22:13:56 +0000

The problem appears to come from lines in the install fwcutter script that have the following:

wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o

The error message is:

Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Bill Ataras

Bill Ataras — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 21:55:13 +0000

I have tried various methods for installing fwcutter and all have failed. In the most recent attempt, I began with:
sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common

Things seemed to proceed normally for a while, then this error was reported:

Quoting:

Setting up b43-fwcutter (1:011-1) …
Error parsing proxy URL http://:8080/: Invalid host name.
dpkg: error processing b43-fwcutter (–configure):
subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up ndiswrapper-common (1.50-1ubuntu1) …
Errors were encountered while processing:
b43-fwcutter
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Can you help resolve this?

Thank you,
Bill

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Jim Lynch

Jim Lynch — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:24:57 +0000

wlan0 doesn’exist. I can’t see what Im typing so I hope this isn’t garbage. Black on a dark green background is less than optimal.

No network card listed in Hardware drivers. lspci shows two wireless cards, the built in and the pcmcia card but noting makes them work.

I even installed Linuxant and it doesn’t.
Windows works fiee as did Edgy.

Jim

Comment on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy Heron” Broadcom Wireless by Michael

Michael — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:55:05 +0000

Check out this website – http://300lb.blogspot.com/2008/04/how-to-get-broadcom-wireless-to-work-in.html

I have a broadcom wireless 4306, and this worked like a charm. After installing I had to restart, and no problems since.