Linux ... always linux!

Looking in my cds I found a fantastic cd case, labeled "Red Hat Linux 7.2 CD-2"!
Red hat Linux was my first Linux installed. I remember that I installed the RH 5.1 in 1999. In those times was no adsl, only modem internet access here, and found Linux distribution was too difficult!! After 3 years, a friend of mine gave me RH 7.2, and I installed again! Don't remember too much about it, but I think that the Desktop Env was KDE 2.2, and kernel 2.4.X...

The time past .... and now

Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibson, with Mac4Lin installed. Wonderfull!!

Wireless in Ubuntu 7.10 with ndiswrapper

Hopefully, my wireless is working!
The steps I followed to make Wireless working in my Acer Aspire 5100 with an Atheros 5006eg was:

First of all, Ubuntu as default load madwifi drivers, you can check it doing an lsmod:

# lsmod grep ath

the ouput look like this:

ath_pci ....
wlan ....
ath_hal .....

You have to disable this module and install ndiswrapper. To disable the madwifi modules, you have to create a file called blacklist-ath_pci in /etc/modprobe.d/ and add this lines to the file:

blacklist ath_pci
blacklist wlan
blacklist ath_hal

Then, install ndiswrapper (using synaptic or apt-get)

sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils

(if you want graphic interface install : sudo apt-get install ndisgtk)

Then append the follow line to /etc/modules file:

# Load ndiswrapper module
ndiswrapper

This make that the ndiswrapper module load at boot time.

Now, go to http://www.atheros.cz and download the atheros ar5006eg driver for Windows XP (if you run ubuntu in 64 bit you have to download the 64 bit binaries for winXP).

Extract the files:

unzip xp64-5.3.0.56-whql.zip

and type,

ndiswrapper -i net5211.inf

or

go to System -> Administration -> Windows Wirless Driver (the gtk ndiswrapper gui).

Reboot your system, and you get the WIRLESS working!

Installing Ubuntu 7.10 and Solaris Developer Edition.

Yesterday, my laptop crashed totally! The vfat partition crashed. The fsck died with exit code = 1. I decided to delete everything, the partition table and everything else!
The bad news was that my Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop CD was damaged. The good news was that my laptop is totally free of any OS.

See you in the future ... with my new OS.

P.D. And I can't install SDE .. because the time is finite.