Comments for Raising Elephants...

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by vando

vando — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:42:26 +0000

Nice! I’ve a Lenovo 3000 N200 with the same wifi chipset and now it works entirely with Software Libre (Parabola, of course).

Comment on lemon.py by Nannu

Nannu — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 20:02:23 +0000

the cake is a lie! D:

Comment on lemon.py by leorockway

leorockway — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:38:01 +0000

Fine, no lemon pie for you, mister! *nose up*

Comment on lemon.py by Ali Gündüz

Ali Gündüz — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:24:14 +0000

get a life.

Comment on lemon.py by Nannu

Nannu — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 04:08:01 +0000

cool! ^^
mine (in php): http://nunix.com.ar/2010/09/24/lemon-php/ ^^

Comment on lemon.py by Lemon.php | Nunix Blog

Lemon.php | Nunix Blog — Fri, 24 Sep 2010 03:52:14 +0000

[...] el post de leo_rockway y me pareció copado "traspasar" su código a otro lenguaje. Como PHP es [...]

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by Tenzin Dendup

Tenzin Dendup — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 08:10:48 +0000

Is it working for 4312 now??

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by Spartic

Spartic — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:57:17 +0000

openfwwf Makefile should include in $(BCMASM) line -d after –
(it will tell you if you have errors on the assembler)

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by leorockway

leorockway — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 21:06:45 +0000

4312 doesn’t appear to be supported yet.

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by Socrates Piña

Socrates Piña — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:30:43 +0000

Hi I need to know if you can a wifi gnewsense bcm in 4312 in a Dell Inspiron 1545

Comment on The UTUTO XS Lemote project begins! by s5h.net » Blog Archive » FSF/GNU Has Some Focus on MIPS, New Promotion of AcaWiki

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:28:36 +0000

[...] This initiative has the support of institutions that advocate free software and free knowledge. http://leorockway.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/the-ututo-xs-lemote-project-begins/ [...]

Comment on The UTUTO XS Lemote project begins! by Links 09/10/2009: Hulu Desktop for GNU/Linux, Mårten Mickos Nods on Oracle | Boycott Novell

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 12:27:10 +0000

[...] The UTUTO XS Lemote project begins! Richard Stallman talked to us about the possibility of getting some Lemote computers as a donation for this project and he put us in contact with the Lemote company in China. [...]

Comment on The UTUTO XS Lemote project begins! by Leonardo G. De Luca (leorockway) 's status on Friday, 09-Oct-09 05:34:38 UTC - Identi.ca

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 05:34:42 +0000

[...] Ututo XS Lemote project begins: http://leorockway.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/the-ututo-xs-lemote-project-begins/ !gnu !fsf [...]

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by David Bailey

David Bailey — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:38:30 +0000

You are awesome. I followed the steps and my wifi is working.

The fix on the gNS site kept giving me errors but you have fixed the problem.

Lack of wifi support for b43 drivers was the reason I had to uninstall gNS 2.2.

Comment on Getting rid of the annoying pcspeaker sound by Ali Gündüz

Ali Gündüz — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:35:43 +0000

on archlinux, one would add !pcspkr and !snd_pcsp into the MODULES=() of /etc/rc.conf

Comment on Free software conference in Prishtina by Alberto Guzmán

Alberto Guzmán — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:53:07 +0000

Its great to hear from you, i started to thing that you could appear on the next season of LOST O_o

I’m glad you’re fine and let me tell you that i really envy you, for such a nice experience ;D
Please be kind and send pictures displaying the kosovian beauty and the Free Software event of course xD

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by Broadcom Wifi Card – Making it work with Free Software « Tenzin’s Weblog

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 08:46:22 +0000

[...] my misfortunes with the wifi card on #gnewsense on freenode. gnufs on #gnewsense pointed me to http://leorockway.wordpress.com/2009/07/04/0c00-0-network-controller-broadcom-corporation-bcm4311-80… . There, I came to know about OpenFWWF , a project “that provides an open source firmware [...]

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by leorockway

leorockway — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 09:24:41 +0000

@Kenny Ossa:

Gracias, pensé que había cambiado todos los 5.1 por 5.2.

Es perfectamente válido usar comillas dobles ahí, excepto que WordPress les pone estilo. Debería averiguar como cambiar eso.

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by Kenny Ossa

Kenny Ossa — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 06:10:44 +0000

Leo! Muy bueno el Post, sólo dos cositas…
1) Al principio usas el wget con openfwwf-5.2.tar.gz, luego se hace referencia a openfwwf-5.1.tar.gz

2) Se debe usar comillas simples en:
echo “options b43 qos=0″ >> /etc/modprobe.d/options
echo “b43″ >> /etc/modules

sino, se agregan las comillas dobles junto con el texto y probablemente nos de un warning al levantar el módulo, por ejemplo.

Excelente, trabajo. Gracias!

Comment on TontoFlog by marcolandia

marcolandia — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:24:01 +0000

Tanks leorockway
TontoFlog is pending for admission in Savannah

Comment on TontoFlog by leorockway

leorockway — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:08:00 +0000

That’s the ToDo list. No RSS feeds yet.

Comment on TontoFlog by Ali Gunduz

Ali Gunduz — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:51:17 +0000

Project website mentions RSS but I couldn’t find an RSS feed on neither your photoblog or Marcolandia’s.

Comment on 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN (rev 01) take two: by Miguel

Miguel — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 12:40:00 +0000

Not only he’s not dead….and he’s posting too!!! way to go my friend!!!

BTW: Excellent news!! Wife’s computer has a broadcom card, I will try it and will let you know hot it works.

PS: Why I don’t try it out first and then post into your blog is a big mystery of human nature

Comment on Watch out, it’s an update by Ali Gunduz

Ali Gunduz — Mon, 04 May 2009 19:18:35 +0000

pfft, what a freetard…

Rock on!

Comment on About by leorockway

leorockway — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 21:18:32 +0000

@Pmaz: I’m sorry, but that post got deleted and I clearly explained why.

Edit: there’s a new post that explains how to make some Broadcom cards work with free software.

Comment on About by Pmaz

Pmaz — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 12:14:54 +0000

Hey im wondering if i can get some help setting up my wifi on my netbook using a bcm43xx driver, with slax

Comment on About by leorockway

leorockway — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 14:43:23 +0000

@tonyb: that’s exactly what it is… the famous Magic SysRq Key : )

Comment on About by tonyb

tonyb — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 23:23:23 +0000

Raising elephants is so utterly boring
Alt-SysRq: R E I S U B
Is that what your name is a reference to ?

Comment on Ututo XS 2006 Vivo by leorockway

leorockway — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 23:20:32 +0000

@pixelnate: I know about both, Gobuntu and gNewSense. I was going to give gNewSense a try but it was (maybe still is) based on a pretty old version of Ubuntu. On the other hand, Gobuntu lacked compromise from the very beginning, since it is developed using Launchpad. Ubuntu now comes with an option to install only Free Software (I like that).
I still consider gNewSense a lot better than Gobuntu.

I haven’t posted on this blog for quite some time, but now I’m using Debian Lenny with no nonfree repos (or contribs).

About Qt, you may want to read about the KDE Free QT Foundation [0]. For all intents and purposes of KDE, Qt is a free toolkit.

[0] http://www.kde.org/whatiskde/kdefreeqtfoundation.php

Comment on Ututo XS 2006 Vivo by pixelnate

pixelnate — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:42:42 +0000

As far as your gnu obsession goes, the Gobuntu version of Ubuntu is the closest thing you can get to having a completely free version of Ubuntu. The project is currently without leadership, in case you want to take your gnu love to the next level.

And just for the record, KDE uses Qt which isn’t exactly a “free” toolkit.

Comment on ooxml, the April fools’ standard by leorockway

leorockway — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:55:01 +0000

@Fernando Cassia: I should have chosen my words more carefully. First of all, I’m not saying OO.o is a bad product. I used StarOffice 5.2 with the integrated desktop you mention and I found it pretty impressive.

I think OO.o is, in fact, an awesome piece of software, but since I’m running Qt libraries I would like to use KOffice and not OO.o. What’s not to like about OO.o? Just that it isn’t Qt.

One of the things I like the most about GNU/Linux is the possibility to choose. There are many browsers out there (Firefox, Konqueror, Dilloh, Kazahakase, etc), many WMs or DEs (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, open/black/fluxbox, Enlightment, FVWM, Ratpoison, etc) I also like the freedom of choosing my own Office software.

I am a translator and I do my work in OO.o because, as it is, I think it’s way better than KOffice. I only wished KOffice got better so I could ditch OO.o without thinking twice, to keep my system all Qt instead of wasting resources in extra libraries.

So, like I said, I didn’t choose the best words. I was definitely not ranting against OO.o. If you read at the end of my post, I even say that OO.o needs more marketing so more people start using it (and I didn’t say the same about KOffice).

But all in all, I love having the option of using KSpread, Gnumeric or oocalc.

Comment on ooxml, the April fools’ standard by Fernando Cassia

Fernando Cassia — Tue, 06 May 2008 05:16:36 +0000

“which I hate doing, not only because I hate .doc, but also because I don’t like OO.o a whole lot; I’m a KDE guy, I’m all about KOffice”

What’s not to like about OpenOffice ? I started using back in 1996 when it was a closed-source product, StarOffice 3.1 from little German company Stardivision Gmbh. It ran (back then) on 16-bit Windows 3.1, 32-bit IBM OS/2, 32-bit Linux and even Macintosh (back then no-OSX, but oldskool Motorola-based MacOS).

Then Sun bought it, released it as freeware first (v5.0, 5.1, 5.2) and then shocked the world when they open sourced it. It’s been evolving and being optimized ever since. (Not an easy task, as Stardivision had to create their own object-oriented framework).

It was back in 1999 when Stardivision started working on a XML based file format specification for StarOffice’s files. NINE years ago.

In fact, I hated it when they ditched the “integrated desktop” approach and “separated” all apps just to “mimic M$ Office”.

KOffice is a toy. I think of it as Microsoft Works, or, more appropiately,

Desktop environments shouldn’t try to re-invent the wheel and lose time, effort and sweath, thousands of man hours of programming time trying to do what others do best, namely OpenOffice.org which has all the mind share and market share (in the Linux market).

Why not work to better integrate OpenOffice.org with KDE instead?. Sheesh!. (I tell the same to the creators of Gnumerics). http://live.gnome.org/GnomeOffice

FC
PS: The only thing I agree with you with is the naming of Idiot de Icaza, I will try to adopt it on my blog, going forward. Anyone who praises Microsoft .Net must be one.

Comment on Ututo XS 2006 Vivo by nicolas reynolds

nicolas reynolds — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:02:17 +0000

Yo me pasé a Openbox, cuando me cansé de KDE y su maldita superintegración, y a Arch Linux cuando me cansé de los cuelgues (sí, cuelgues) de Ubuntu

Ponete un HOWTO de DSL + qemu!

Salud!