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I was really nerveus about getting wireless to work…
Update, 24. July 2004, an hour later: Well it was bound to be an impossible mission from the start. The computer dosn’t even have an Intel fucker of not supported death wireless card I thought it had 
What a waste of time.
I have an Atheros (AR5212 802.11abg) card instead.
After googeling I found that my wireless card is an Intel 2200BG which at the time of the writing of the guides I found wasn’t supported very well, but the linked to the ipw2200 site on SourceForge developing the Linux driver.
But what the hell – I’ll give it a try… it might work.
There is a few requirements for the driver to work:
To compile the source code you also need the packages gcc and make.
For a more detailed howto consult the project website.
Now compile the source code:
debian:~# tar xzvf ipw2200-0.2.tgz
debian:~# cd ipw2200-0.2
debian:~# make
Unpack the firmware files to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware:
moprobe firmware_class
If this isn’t loaded you will get an error like this “-1 Unknown symbol in module“
and finally run :
insmod ipw2200.ko
Well I didn’t get any errors… now I have to figure out how this works
Step 2… test that it is actually working.
dmesg dosn’t detect any new ahrdware when I load the modules, so I don’t think that it is working?!
The IBM X40 seems to like using framebuffer so might find it usefull to put the following in you grub /boot/grub/menu.lst
# kopt=root=/dev/hda3 ro vga=771
Notice the
vga=771
Whenever you install a new kernel and grub-update is run the “vga=771″ will automatically be appended to every entry in the menu.lst
Now you don’t have to enter it manualy everytime you install a new kernel.
After I had a console which worked correctly I installed the usual stuf like:
ssh less modconf emacs21
Then I installed GNOME with the following
apt-get install x-windows-system gnome-core gdm
… and waited a little.
Autoconfiguring my harware didn’t work but after replacing the /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 with the content from a guide found on linux-laptop.net it worked like a charm.
Now I wanted a graphical battery indicator and I added “Utility” -> “Battery Charge Monitor” to my GNOME panel. But an error occured after adding it to my panel: “Can’t access ACPI events in /var/run/acpid.socket!”
apt-get install acpid
Solved the problem.
After installing a clean Sarge system from an USB key with some of the nightly builds of the new Debian installer I ran into the first troubles.
My keyboard didn’t function properly… even though I could write danish characters like “æøå”, I wasn’t able to shift through the virtual consoles with (Ctrl+Alt+F1 – F6).
dpkg-reconfigure console-data
revealed that the “specific keymap” was set to “Apple USB”.
changing this to “Standard” helped.
Well the Debian Art site is online. It still needs a lot of work but now we have a base to work on
My three first wallpapers is ready for download.
What are you waiting for?
I tried installing the package phpwiki and the installation went (like almost always with Debian) smooth. But I use severel VirtualHost‘s and when i tried to access phpwiki I was met with an error 404 
After googling around I found that RewriteRules isn’t inheritet from the default apache settings into a VirtualHost neither is the RewriteEngine setting.
Put this in each VirtualHost which should have phpwiki enabled:
RewriteEngine on
RewriteOptions inherit
Note if you have more global RewriteRules than phpwiki these will also be enabled.
Still can’t get Postfix to save my mail in Maildir format
It seems that Postfix don’t have permission to save the emails where I directed it to, even though it should. And of top of it all Courier-IMAP won’t authendicate via MySQL.
But this sucker ain’t going to get me down… I will fight to the end. Eventualy I will get reinforcements
Thor, Per, Steffen… HELP!
Last night I bought the domain debianart.dk. I’m hoping to put a site togeter which only focus on graphics for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution. Like wallpapers, splashscreens, icons etc.
I will have to setup a homepage for this and apart from a gallery/download page I was thinking of adding a wiki page where we can write documentation/tutorials for specific styles of icons, wallpapers etc.
Let’s se how it goes
I have been working on layout templates for the htdig search engine used on the danish Debian guide. I have tried to make it look much like google but still make it a part of the guide. Try make a search on ex. “mysql“.
Yesterday I worked with Morten Brix Petersen to implement user comments on the Danish Debian guide. User comment functionality like the one found on PHP’s documentation. While we where at make enhancements we also redesigned the frontpage to look like the rest of the guide.
First the front page was designed using tableless design but IE and Konqueror (incl. Safari) couldn’t handle it. Now the page useses two tables not something I’m proud of but hey now it works.
Next target is the layout of the search functionality (ht://Dig), which should be integratede with the rest of the guide.