Saturday, December 17, 2005
Friday, December 16, 2005
Getting the Wi-Fi LED working in HP Pavilion dv1000
Ubuntu Breezy (2.6.12 kernel)
1) Get the pci address of the network controller:
2) And then:
$ su -
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led
3) Put this inside /etc/rcS.d/S50local so that it lights up everytime you boot:
#!/bin/sh
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led
4) Make it executable:
# chmod +x /etc/rcS.d/S50local
Note: To enable it to light up back again after resuming from a sleep (suspend-to-RAM), add this to /etc/acpi/resume.sh:
1) Get the pci address of the network controller:
2) And then:
$ su -
# echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led
3) Put this inside /etc/rcS.d/S50local so that it lights up everytime you boot:
#!/bin/sh
echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/drivers/ipw2200/0000\:02\:06.0/led
4) Make it executable:
# chmod +x /etc/rcS.d/S50local
Note: To enable it to light up back again after resuming from a sleep (suspend-to-RAM), add this to /etc/acpi/resume.sh:
Wednesday, December 14, 2005
KDevelop icons don't appear in the Applications>Programming menu
1) Open up smeg --it's in Applications>System Tools>Applications Menu Editor
2) Get to the KDevelop's entry in the (smeg) editor then right-click and choose "Properties":
3) The Entry Editor pops up, click on Icon, then Press Ctrl+L and then type this in and click Open:
4) Then look for the directory named "apps", click it and then scroll down and look for the icon. And then click it:
5) Done.