Important Things 1999

Can’t bear Firefox V3.5 any more, so back to V3.0.13, and update to V3.0.14.

But, still slow in its first startup.

Remove lots of plugins, only keep,

1. IE Tab

2. Zotero

3. Xmarks

4. Alexa Sparky

5. Gmail Manager

Maybe all these add-ons is why I like Firefox, and not give up to Maxthon.

Have tested Maxthon which is IE Kernel, two words to describe it “like light”.

But, I do NOT like its Adv in left-bottom status bar.

If, Mathon provide Zotero and Xmarks, and discard its Adv, ……………..  Hehe, it’s impossible. It’s more like a company.

After Ubuntu 8.04 updating to Kernel 2.6.24-19-generic, my wireless card is lost and WLAN configuration is invalid.

It spent my 4 hours to solve this problem, the following is summary:

1. Install b43-fwcutter,

sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

2. Run  b43-fwcutter

sudo /usr/share/b43-fwcutter/install_bcm43xx_firmware.sh

3.rmmod

rmmod ndiswrapper
rmmod ssb
rmmod b43

4.modprobe

modprobe ndiswrapper
modprobe ssb
modprobe b43

5. To check wlan0, OK

ifconfig -a

6. Config WLAN

Ubuntu Status bar, left click “Network”, Mannual configuration, unlock, Wireless connection, Properties, WPA, DHCP or IP (depend on your AP), disable LAN, save as a new network location.

Before these steps,

I have updated ndiswrapper to V1.9, both common and util, and found no ndiswrapper in /usr/sbin, so make a link(ln -s).

Reinstall DELL Wireless bcmw15.inf

The posts I have read,

1. HOWTO: WLan via Ndiswrapper http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=190967

2. http://www.lupaworld.com/home/space-47147-do-blog-id-123368.html, This article contains Chinese chars, and it’s the most important article.

3. Other posts: please search ndiswrapper, and fwcutter.

It works, so I post this article by WLAN.