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Installing ndiswrapper on ubuntu 8.04

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 today and faced this problem of WiFi again but ths time even installing ndiswrapper diddnt worked so had to find a way to make WiFi work on boot and here it is
For this First You need to install ndiswrapper, no need for net coz the packages are included in the CD [...]

“now playing” Status in Pidgin

Some of the guys posted in the forums as to how to go about it, hence this post. Going by the list of available plugins to do the same it would seem a cakewalk. But it isn’t as you would be often stranded with a plugin that won’t support the media player you would be [...]

Configuring WiFi with Ndiswrapper on Debian

Ok so lets start, you need module-assistant as you have to build the ndiswrapper from the source seperately, so type
apt-get install module-assistant
then prepare the build environment
module-assistant prepare
this will download the kernel-header and setup the symbolic links, now install the ndiswrapper-source package
apt-get install ndiswrapper-source
if you have internet access only via WiFi the download the packages from [...]

Enabling Wifi on Lenovo R60 in Linux

So yesterday after hunting for the solution of the wifi problem in Lenovo R60 so quite sometime i finally decided to try DJays solution to build Madwifi and it worked like a charm. I was thinking that there will be a total Open Source solution of the problem but well i just hope that ath5k [...]

Linux Install Fest is a hit

After a long awaited time, finally the Install fest started off on 24th January. Since this Install Fest was scheduled to be held for two days. Yesterday we people guided the people to defragment their hard disks, scan disks for erros, laptops batteries charged all those necessary stuffs.
We had collected DVD’s from all of [...]

First Install Fest

Some finally here comes an awaited event which all of you might be waiting “Linux Install Fest”. Many of our friends have approached with their laptops/desktops to get Linux installed on their system. We came up with a noble idea, “Why not organize a Install Fest where all people can bring their laptops and we [...]

Linux Software Installation: Myths and the Truth

THE MYTHS
The first problem which people face while switching over to Linux is the “unavailability of softwares” as they claim. They just try to run their windows installer/setup file and end up with frustration saying “Linux is so incompatible!” Is it really so? Linux is not a clone of Windows. Then how come you expect [...]

3D effects on ubuntu 7.10 on ati 1250

Well after going through a large number of guides like this i finally thought about giving guide at cchtml a try, well the hings mentioned are really great but not all steps are needed so here is a simplified version
Here i assume that you have not done any of this step before and are doing [...]

What is a webserver? Clear your myths…

Most of you must have heard about something called webserver. To most of the people it more of a mystery. Actually a webserver is nothing magical piece of software, but its really marvelous. There are many webservers available, many of them are frequently heard- Apache-the leading webserver which serves 70% of the website, Microsoft IIS-a [...]

Installing any PHP based software over LAMP/WAMP

Any PHP based software can be run over a web-server. The most famous of them is Apache-the webserver used in around 75% of the websites. For running most of these PHP applications you need a webserver and a database for storing the data. Database is not required in all the cases. Some softwares use flat [...]