Huawei E220 - Workaround for Dapper Drake
Using the Modem Huawei E220 on Dapper Drake (and from what I’ve heard 7.04) can be quite tricky. After a few searches I found a great software that will allow the USB device to be recognized as a modem, and not a SCSI CD-ROM.
oozie made a great work and has instructions on his website.
huawei.tar.bz2 is what you need to make the modem work. It comes with a few .conf files which you can use with wvdial. A great add-on is he220stat.tar.bz2 which will display useful information about the current state of your connection.
Please remove the PIN code verification from the SIM card. Place it on a cellphone and disable it.
For Portuguese service providers I was able to find a great configuration file for wvdial that will work with all of them. (available after the jump)
One important note:
When you first buy the USB 3G device it will first have to make the connection in Windows in order to get carrier information. Only after that you can start using it on GNU/Linux.
Dependencies:
For Ubuntu all the dependencies for the two pieces of software are available from the official repositories. Please refer to ozzie page and the README of each software for more information on this. *
* - libncurses5-dev is enough for the ncurses dependencies.
Ubuntu Certified Professional discussion list
After a brief discussion with Mark and Billy Cina (who runs the Ubuntu training program) the discussion list for subjects related to the certification and certified Ubuntu training has been created.
More information about this discussion list:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-training-support
You can use this list for questions or anything related to the training program. Books reviews, study material tips, exam centers, etc.
Hope this helps out everyone who is interested in becoming Ubuntu Certified Professional!
Dual-head configuration
Today I took some time to properly configure the computer I have on my parents house. Even though I don’t spend much time here I want it to be as geeky as possible.
Since I have 1 monitor I don’t use and a graphics card that supports dual-head I decided to give it a try.
I would like to credit all the sources, but I Googled allot and gathered information from several places.
First of all I made a copy of my /etc/X11/xorg.conf to a safe place. Then I ran aticonfig --initial. This will create an ATI device section on X.org configuration file capable of loading fglrx drivers.
Then I issued the following command:
sudo aticonfig --initial=dual-head --screen-layout=left
This will create the initial configuration on xorg.conf for dual-head.
After this I restarted X (CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE). The second monitor was running as a clone (same image as the main monitor).
Since this worked out it was time to try Big Desktop.
sudo aticonfig --dtop=horizontal
Another X restart.
The image was now expanded to the secondary monitor on the left side. One problem, though.
Instead of the mouse leaving the main monitor by the left side (the side which the secondary monitor is located) it was leaving by the opposite side.
To fix this we can manually edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and change, on the ‘Device’ section, Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal" to Option "DesktopSetup" "horizontal,reverse".
I now have it working exactly as I want!
Here’s a screenshot, in case you’re interested.
Information about my graphics card:
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
Frankfurt LoCo Team
I’ll pay Germany a visit in two weeks. My mom is going on work and invited me to come along.
I’ll be in a city, which I have no idea how to type, from 23 to ~30 of June.
If the Frankfurt LoCo team is having a meeting during this period, I would be happy to attend.
GNU users who have never heard of GNU
I stand by GNU/Linux on the whole naming controversy. This is a personal opinion, so there isn’t any ’space’ to tell me that I’m wrong (I’ve heard it allot) nor that I’m right.
It’s just my way of seeing things on the FLOSS world.
Browsing through the GNU project website, I found an interesting article I thought I should share.
GNU Users Who Have Never Heard of GNU
Hello Planet Ubuntu
If everything worked out correctly, this post should be fetched by Planet Ubuntu.
Hello to all the ‘bloggers’ aggregated and the readers of this great Planet.
I’ll see you all soon.
New Ubuntu Member
I’m very proud to announce that my application for Ubuntu Member was accepted. For me, it’s an honor to be an Ubuntu Member.
The Community Council meeting took place today, and even though I had to attend sitting on a bar in the Airport, things went pretty good.
The feedback I got from the Council was simply unbelievable. UbuntuStats and UbuntuWeblogs were the two projects the community liked the most and it really feels good to see people recognizing your work. I’m actually pretty happy and stunned with all the members that participated on the event.
This is only to prove something I think we all know:
There is no community like Ubuntu’s.
Thanks to sabdfl, mako, elmo and Seveas.
Launchpad Karma decreased?
I noticed my Karma decreased from 60.000 to 5000, however, there seems to be a good explanation for all of this.
There goes those 2.000.000 Karma’s…
My work area
I was writing this post when I headed to Planet Ubuntu and saw Brandon Holtsclaw post on work areas. Here’s a little ping to him.
The folks back home asked for some pictures, so I’ll just use a couple of them to show my new (still not ready) work area.
Picture #1; Picture #2; Picture #3
The two monitors on the far left are for the desktop, while the right monitor is for the barebone. More information about the hardware can be found on my Hardware page.
Besides Dapper Drake I’m also running Fluxbuntu on the barebone.
I know I’m late Santa, but can I still ask a official Ubuntu (Fubuntu?) version with Fluxbox? Or even Bubuntu (Blackbox)?
OpenArena
OpenArena is an open-source content package for Quake III Arena licensed under the GPL, effectively creating a free stand-alone game. You do not need Quake III Arena to play this game.
I first heard about this game on Digg.com; I tried GetDeb.org and I was surprised that someone has already packaged it.
I’m not a fan of FPS, but for a time killer, running natively on GNU/Linux and free, this is as good as it gets.
OpenArena site can be found here, as well some screenshots of in-game play.
This game requires libopenal0a, however, if you install the .DEB, an apt-get install -f will download the dependencies for you (just one, actually).
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