Dappan koothu…….

I’ve got so used to the celsius scale for 22 years that its friggin hard to now start tellin the temp in farenheight. We’ve all learnt in school that C = (F – 32)/2 but then….

Scene 1: At the bus stop waiting for the shuttle
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A ‘brotha’ walks up n sez )

Brother : ‘maan its 22F, damn coald…..’,

Me : uh…uh…

(frantically calculatin 22 – 32 = -10, -10/2 = -5.)

Me : Oh -5C! ‘yea maan its cold…..’

(damn! I feel so stopid)

ps: din’t i tell u he walked away while i was claculating with a blank expression on my face….

Wunderground says it’s -7deg F and -22deg C today in KC.

I dont wanna leave home but then school beckons, ya I know its a saturday!
did I mention the thick layer of snow?

damn!

Here are a few thingy’s to get your windows partitions on Ubuntu

mount Windows partition NTFS

sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t ntfs -o nls=utf8,umask=000

To mount Windows partition

sudo mkdir /media/windows
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/windows/ -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,umask=000

To unmount Windows partition

sudo umount /media/windows/

I got Ubuntu runnin on my lappie in early december and had configured wireless using NdisWrapper to load the. Owing to a lot of curiosity and requests I am postin this here.

• Identify the wireless chipset on your laptop, mine is BCM4318 from Broadcom Corporation.
• Try to locate your wireless card here and download the driver if found on the list
• Now go ahead and download NdisWrapper from here and then install it.(It has a readme file and installing shouldn’t be a problem)
• Now run the command ndiswrapper -i filename.inf from the terminal. Since I was using Ubuntu I had to use sudo to get administrative priveleges. The .inf file is the windows driver that you downloaded from the wiki page. Eg sudo ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
• This copies all necessary files to /etc/ndiswrapper and creates the config files for your card.
• After installing you can run ndiswrapper -l to see the status of your installed drivers
• If you have installed the correct driver you should see something like this:
  Installed ndis drivers:
  bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
• Then we load the ndiswrapper module with:modprobe ndiswrapper and sudo modprobe ndiswrapper if Ubuntu.
• you can have a look if the kernel sees the wlan nic:dmesg | tail -n 6

  which gives you a description of your wireless lan interface:

  [20457.536492] ndiswrapper version 1.1 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
  [20457.541643] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded
  [20457.541803] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:05.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
  [20457.546419] ndiswrapper: using irq 21
  [20457.800500] wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:9b:c0:d3:cb using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4318.5.conf
  [20457.800522] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP

• Now we configure the interface with:iwconfig

  which shows wether that the interface is available

• Now we can scan the wlan access point:iwlist wlan0 scan

  and use the following command to get network access:

  ifconfig wlan0 up and sudo ifconfig wlan0 up if Ubuntu
  dhclient wlan0 and sudo dhclient wlan0 if Ubuntu

• Acer users running FC4 can find help here
• This should probably help to get wi-fi access on most lappies and wireless cards. Just make sure that your kernel supports NdisWrapper

There are a lot of things in life that come uninvited
death just happens to be one of em’