Found a work around that prevents Firefox 3 from enabling work offline when you are using a USB modem or in my case an iBurst pcmcia modem.
The fix originally posted here requires you to open the Network Manager configuration file.
$ gksudo gedit /etc/dbus-1/system.d/NetworkManager.conf
Then replace <allow send_interface=”org.freedesktop.NetworkManager”/> with <deny send_interface=”org.freedesktop.NetworkManager”/>.
After saving the changes, restart your machine.
Bah, just found out that the iBurst driver 1.3.2 doesn’t compile in Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Turns out a macro in the kernel called SET_MODULE_OWNER was deprecated in 2.6.23, and removed in 2.6.24. The iBurst driver currently depends on that macro, so I will have to look at patching it so that it can work for Hardy Heron, which uses the 2.6.24 kernel.
Update
The fix is quite simple. Just remove SET_MODULE_OWNER from ib-net.c, recompile and install.
Sweet, the latest release of Ubuntu dubbed Hardy Heron is out!
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There are a lot of new changes under the hood. Most notable are:
I am currently in the process of migrating /home to its own partition so that I can go ahead and upgrade to Hardy Heron as soon as possible.
I finally got around to installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu Breezy Badger, and it works like a charm. I created a virtual machine and installed Windows XP with JeOS for running Lotus Notes (not by choice). I can finally blow away my Windows partition. Oh happy days!
I wrote earlier about using Mingle on a Nintendo Wii as an Agile project management tool. I figured it would be cumbersome to lug around a data projector, laptop, Airport Express, and Nintendo Wii to every meeting in which you want to use Mingle, such as a Showcase or technical stand-up. Not to mention the setup time in establishing a connection between the Wii and your Wi-Fi access point. So wouldn’t it be nice to remove the Nintendo Wii and the Airport Express from the equation and just use the Wiimote with your laptop? Well you can do just that, and it is really easy to setup on Ubuntu!
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You can follow these instructions or just run the following in a terminal.
$ sudo apt-get install libcwiid0 lswm wmgui wminput
$ wmgui
Select Connect from the menu and hold buttons 1 and 2 on your Wiimote to make it discoverable. You may need to do this a couple of times before wmgui picks up your Wiimote before timing out. Once connected, wmgui allows you to test the inputs of your Wiimote. You can enable rumble and accelerometer inputs from the menus.
$ sudo modprobe uinput
$ sudo wminput
Then put your Wiimote into discoverable mode by holding buttons 1 and 2 together again.
$ sudo sh -c 'echo "KERNEL=="uinput", GROUP="admin"" > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-cwiid-input.rules' /etc/init.d/udev restart
You should now be able to move the cursor around using your Wiimote, and using the A and B buttons as left and right clicks respectively. However, using the accelerometer alone for moving the cursor around does not make for a great user experience. The wminput driver is configured by default for the accelerometer, and if you want to move windows around with your Wiimote, then you’ll need to use the IR configurations instead. Simply replace the default soft link to the accelerometer config file with the ir_ptr config file.
$ cd /etc/cwiid/wminput $ sudo rm default $ sudo ln -s ir_ptr default
The Wiimote now needs a point of reference to use when sending coordinates back to the CWiiD driver. This is what the Sensor Bar is for. The Sensor Bar is simply an array of infra red LEDs that creates a plane for the Wiimote as a point of reference. The plane is used for rotation instructions such as the rotating hand effect on the Wii. You can’t use the Wii Sensor Bar with your laptop as it doesn’t have USB or a compatible connector with the laptop. I ended up building my own USB Sensor Bar, and will write about my experience in a later post. It was relatively simple and works quite well. However, it does require doing a bit of soldering, so if you aren’t comfortable with DIY electronics then I would recommend getting a Nyco battery powered Sensor Bar from eBay.
Now you should be able to fire up Mingle and start moving those story cards around on your laptop with just your Wiimote!
If you are using a Mac then you might want to try Darwin Remote [Free] or Remote Buddy [Not Free]. Windows users can use GlovePie or WiinRemote.
I got my iBurst card working on Ubuntu 7.10 (aka Gutsy Gibbon). You need to download the latest iBurst driver called ibdriver, then build and install it. Configure some pcmcia files, run pppoeconf and you should be able to connect to the Internet. The following describes what I did to get my iBurst working on Gutsy Gibbon.
1. Make sure you have libc6-dev installed.
$ sudo apt-get install libc6-dev
2. Download ibdriver 1.3.2 from Sourceforge.
3. Move the tarball to a temporary build folder and untar it.
$ mv ~/Desktop/ibdriver-1.3.2-linux-2.6.20.tar.gz ~/src/build $ tar zxvf ibdriver-1.3.2-linux-2.6.20.tar.gz
4. Make and install the driver.
$ cd ~/src/build/ibdriver-1.3.2-linux-2.6.20 $ make $ sudo make install
5. Configure the PCMCIA files.
$ gksudo gedit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts
Add the following at the end of the config file.
# iBurst card
device "iburst_cs"
class "network" module "ib-pcmcia"
card "ArrayComm ut02"
manfid 0x02e3, 0x0001
bind "iburst_cs"
card "ArrayComm ut02"
manfid 0x02e3, 0x0002
bind "iburst_cs"
Create the /etc/modprobe.d/iburst file.
$ gksudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/iburst
Add the following text to the file, save and close the file.
options ib-net ifname="eth%d"
6. It is a good idea to restart your laptop at this point. Plug in your PCMCIA iBurst card and use pccardctl to check that the card was detected by the driver.
$ pccardctl status
You should see that the device is bound to the “iburst_cs” driver.
7. Run pppoeconf to connect to your iBurst provider.
$ sudo pppoeconf
A text-based menu program will guide you through the next steps, which are:
Once you have finished these steps, your connection should be working.
8. Starting the connection.
$ sudo pon dsl-provider
9. Stopping the connection.
$ sudo poff dsl-provider
Goodbye Windows, and welcome back Ubuntu my long lost friend. Finally after a year of working with Windows I managed to find some time to get rid of it and install Ubuntu on my work laptop instead. I can’t tell you how much I missed not having apt-get! I am absolutely thrilled to be using Ubuntu again, and with Compiz now a part of Gutsy Gibbon I no longer have OS X envy anymore. Really I don’t, I haven’t touched my eMac in days, mostly due to wasting so much time tweaking Gnome with eye candy that my eyes hurt.
Furthermore, I made the switch because developing Ruby on Rails applications on Windows is such a pain, and most developers know this, so they go out and buy Macs. Well my friends, you can save your dosh and turn your stock standard Dell into a kick arse development environment for Rails. Just check out the screenshot of my desktop below.
I am using Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with Compiz and Emerald. I also have AWN installed for the dock functionality. For Ruby on Rails development I am using a tweaked version of Gedit with plugins that provide much of the functionality of Textmate and more. You can also get Gedit to recognise rhtml files, and provide a real terminal for handy access to command line functionality in the bottom pane.
Sadly I have to keep my Windows partition around for Lotus Notes, but for not much longer. The next release of Lotus Notes will provide support for Ubuntu, and is due out around the middle of this year. Only a few more months until I can completely blow away my Windows partition!