New WIFI adapter NETGEAR wg311v3

I've setup a Ubuntu PC for my 5 year old daughter. She want's to play games aso.
But because I don't wanna have cables lying around, and don't wanna drag another cable from the cellar to the first floor, I decided to buy a wireless pci card.

Fine I bought the cheapest I could possibly find in one of those electronic retail stores here in DK.

A 'NETGEAR' 'WG311v3' it was, and what a mess I ended up having. Linux or Ubuntu is not mature when it comes to WIFI and encryption, but kubuntu seems a lot better at this point. For Ubuntu you'll have to go through a number of howtos aso., but it'll still be messy.

First I had to use ndiswrapper, which is apparently a tool to wrap the windows drivers to be used within Linux (ubuntu).

~$sudo ndiswrapper -i $SOMEDRIVER$.INF

Then I had to remove all encryption from my wireless router, to test that I got a connection.
After that I fumbled with kwlan and wpa_supplicant, which should make me able to have wep encryption on my connection, I abandoned kwlan, and rushed back to networkmanager instead.

This last step was very time consuming, because I'm no nux-wizz, and I'm not familiar with starting up 'services' from boot. But in the end I found that command that did the trick :)

~$sudo ndiswrapper -m

Makes ndiswrapper start every boot.

Hope this link is helpfull in the future, it's about security: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=202834

Kino and Qdvdauthor.

I keep running into problems whenever I use these 2...

But they are two programs you need to have, when editing your own home video, and want them on dvd to share with your family.

I've recreated my entire system, switched harddisk and reinstalled Ubuntu Fiesty, and it is very satisfying to see how well it works, how smooth everything has become, how easy it is to use, or is that just me being a Linux user for 2 years now...

Still I keep getting some, REALLY pain in the butt, problems trying to create my own DVD's. This time I ran into some country code problem with Kino.

I authored a 1 hour long movie, and saved the project file, to return the morning after and start the encoding, just to find out, that all the timing was screwed, it doesn't recognise the beginClip and endClip time, I tried to recreate the movie, ending up with the same problem when I closed Kino and started over. ¤#&%#¤#"& Then endless hours later I find the solution on the forum of Kino, you have to start the thing with a command line like this:

$ LC_NUMERIC=en_US kino

ddennedy says that he solved it in the 0.93 release, which unfortunately is not out in the Ubuntu repos. yet...

Then afterwards, I start up Qdvdauthor and ends up using several hours before I actually succeed making a DVD menu, and the final DVD. the problem was the version of toolame mp2 encoder, that didn't recognise a parameter of '48000', but only '48'...

I guess That's life.. it sucks......and then you die..

Install Ubuntu in Virtual PC 2007 without DVD media or DVD-ROM Drive

I read a post about installing MS Vista, using the free MS Virtual PC 2007 (download links attached), without having a DVD, and figured it would be possible to do the same thing with Ubuntu Fiesty Herd-5. But alas, it is not possible, unless you find a prebuild .vcm file somewhere.

But it is possible with VMware and their prebuild operating systems, some of them, which you can download for free is available here.

Furthermore I was able to get vmwareplayer installed on my Ubuntu Fiesty installation, although I had some minor issues. Like not being able to start the damn thing from the menu.

First I had to do the "mumbo jumbo lingo" to get it up and running.
I did this:
1. Go to /usr/bin
2. sudo ./vmware-config-network.pl (might not be necessary)
3. sudo ./vmplayer
3. download some free vmware prebuild OS.

I chose a reactOS, which is a free ground-up implementation of a compatible Microsoft Windows® XP operating system.
That's what I need for my daughter, she needs to play some Windoze games, and this might actually be a way to do it, from within Ubuntu.

OR you could just use your Windoze install cd and use this little howto
I know it's for windows, but it works equally well on my Ubuntu.
Be sure to download his empty VMware virtual disk files, and extract the one you like, it will give you a virtual partition in the vmware system, to install the OS.

Download 32-bit Virtual PC 2007
Download 64-bit Virtual PC 2007

Got 3d acceleration, but no compiz or Beryl effects

Followed the guide mentioned underneath, but still miss the Cool effects.
But what did I expect? ..having an on board, non supported Graphics card, called something "ATI"..

I just happened to have one of those Crap graphic processors X200G, and one of those crap manufacturers "ATI" who don't give a flying f... about support for Linux, or at least decent driver support.

Right now I've spent around 20 hours trying to get Xgl up and running, because that's what everybody is talking about.
Either you get it running automagically (read: have NVidia), or by going through vast amounts of howtos and knowtos and what have we! or you just leave it as is, no fancy effects...Probably for the best... I hated that cube anyway :(

Upgrading once again.

Only a few weeks to the release of Feisty Fawn

I dared to do it once again, upgrading from Edgy onto a new and unpolished release. But I really want to have all the goodies that it gives you..
The word is 'eye-candy'. Read Compiz or Beryl, one of those 2, and your eyes will go pop-pop.

I've read so much about it the past week, I just have to try it out.

This will do the trick:

#>update-manager -c -d

And then just press the [Upgrade] button, sit back and relax for a few hours..
..And I mean hours, even with my HP Pavilion a1000, which is equipped with an AMD64 3200+ processor.

Afterwards, if you cannot get the desktop effects to work. You'd probably have to reconfigure your graphics card.

For me... I'll try this one:
Ubuntu_Feisty_Installation_Guide

Read/Write raw1394.

I cannot believe I haven't got this in my blog..
How to grab video from your IEEE1394/FireWire interconnectable DV Cam...

Well here it is:
Possibly you will get an error message saying something like "failure reading from raw1394" when you either, try to use Kino to capture, or use dvgrab from the command line, what to do?

you@yourpc:/$ sudo chmod a+rw /dev/raw1394

Then try dvgrab, this is the most likely to work.
type "dvgrab -i" to use in interactive mode, then you can play and stop aso.

It works...it f..ing works, wahoo!

I've been trying to get Picasa working on my Ubuntu, with no luck...Only I never tried just to install the plain .bin file. No instead I installed it using dchroot, as to get it on my 32bit environment...

And all I had to do was go with the .bin file and let it have the 64bit portion.
Damn!! now I'm having it scan my drives for pictures... There's ALOT!! I mean all the folders from a..z A..Z 1..9 bla bla bla, you know what I mean...

Now if I only knew how to remove the folders from this scan, and start all over when I copy my files from the laptop, where I previously saved some files..
God, do not have Picasa scan your whole harddisk and network drives, you'll have to remove a lot of unnecessary folders afterwards.

But hey, this has got to be the coolest thing since....whatever!