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Netgear WG511 Wireless Card

Netgear WG511 installation notes

There are a number of versions of this card, which appear to use one of two chipsets: Intersil or Marvell Technologies; those with the Intersil chipset can be used with the Prism54 drivers, while those with the Marvell chipset require ndiswrapper with the Windows drivers.

Installation is easy, once you’ve identified which chipset your card uses. The most reliable way to do this is by using ‘lspci’, identification by visual markings can mislead you, causing hours of frustration — in particular, not all cards marked ‘v2’ and ‘Made in Taiwan’ use [continued…]

Radio And RealPlayer

After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

     ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

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    Radio And Real Player

    After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

    ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

    JeremyWard

    Radio And Real Player

    After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

    ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

    JeremyWard

    Radio And Real Player

    After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

    ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

    JeremyWard

    Radio And Real Player

    After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

    ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

    JeremyWard

    Radio And Real Player

    After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

    ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

    JeremyWard

    Radio And Real Player

    After some searching around on the web I have completed this exercise, please note that my system is based upon Fedora Core 3 and therefore RPM based.

  • Make sure that openmotif21.rpm is installed – check ayo.freshrpms.net.
  • Download the Realplayer RPM from here [[RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm]]

  • Then install the package with rpm -ihv [[RealPlayer10GOLD]].rpm

  • Once this has been completed create a soft link with the following commands.

    ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.so /usr/local/firefox/plugins/nphelix.so ln -s /usr/local/RealPlayer/mozilla/nphelix.xpt /usr/local/firefox/components/nphelix.xpt

    Now close and restart firefox and log into Radio4.

    JeremyWard

    Update Alternatives

    Introduction

    There’s a rather interesting feature about Debian that many people don’t know about. Debian is able to handle “groups” of similar applications. It’s installed by default (part of the base-system in fact) and is quite often used by the post-configuration of installed packages.

    How does it work?

    The alternatives for a program are listed in /etc/alternatives. While these are not to be removed manually, this directory holds symlinks for each application that has an alternative. This includes symlinks to the binary itself, and to any relevant manpages that might exist for it.

    Displaying the status [continued…]

    Apt Proxy

    Apt-proxy is a simple program that caches downloaded Debian packages. By setting up multiple client computers to use the same apt-proxy, requested packages are only downloaded from the remote server once and cached. This decreases the load on the remote server and improves the speed with which the apt-proxy clients can get hold of the latest Debian packages! Like most network programs, apt-proxy uses the client and server model. In this case, the computer running apt-proxy is the server and the computers using the server as their source for updates and upgrades are clients.

    Note that the current [continued…]