Darren VanBuren
Sunday, June 21st, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Yes, that’s right, I have decided to start hosting a yum repository. I decided this because some packages just need to be packaged and won’t make it into big repos in some cases.
Here’s how to get YOUR rpm package into MY yum repo:
- If your package is compiled, compile it for as many architectures and distributions as possible.
- Send a link to all your compiled RPMs, and source code to spamtrap AT oks DOT verymad DOT net
- I’ll email you back if your package was accepted.
Here’s a link to the .repo file you will need to use the repository:
http://fpaste.org/paste/15984/plain
simply put that file in /etc/yum.repos.d/ as oks-yum.repo and you’re good to go!
Thursday, June 18th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
You may have noticed a new button on the side of OKS Blog recently. It’s for the Free Software Foundation’s Play Ogg campaign.
Continue reading »
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Here at OKS Blog, we’ve come a long way. We’ve faced downtime, but we prevail. I want you all to know how great you are and how important you are to me.
I’m very fortunate to have the number of visitors I have, and I’m fortunate to have the enthusiastic authors here as my friends.
It’s been a long time coming, and one more comment will be the 100th comment.
I am happy to continue administering OKS Blog, and we will continue to flourish for years to come!
Thanks,
Darren VanBuren
Administrator of Onekopakaspace
Thursday, June 11th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Amazingly, I was able to complete a hike at Rattlesnake Ledge. I got this video on the top of the Ledge:
Rattlesnake Ledge
Here are some pretty tall trees:
Monday, June 8th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Fedora 11 is being released tomorrow. Unfortunately, I can’t host a party. I would if I could. There are a host of new features in Fedora 11, such as fingerprint login, new versions of all the desktop environments, the Windows cross-compiler and a new version of X.org.
Download Fedora 11 when it releases at fedoraproject.org
Friday, June 5th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
If you were wondering why posts weren’t showing up at @oksblog, after I upgraded WordTwit, I had to reconfigure. This problem is now fixed, and this post is testing WordTwit.
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Yes, after too much downtime, OKS Blog is BACK!!
Monday, January 12th, 2009
by Darren VanBuren
Unfortunately, the BCM43xx series of wireless cards is very popular in laptops today, but thankfully the popularity is decreasing. Fedora 10 is actually not difficult, but harder than Ubuntu, to use the BCM43xx cards.
Make sure you have root access. This cannot be performed without root access. This is for firmware version 4 and higher, my Acer Aspire 3690 used that firmware, so this is what I’m giving instructions for.
yum install b43-fwcutter
cd /tmp
wget http://mirror2.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
bunzip2 broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2
tar xvf broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar
b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5/driver/wl_apsta_mimo.o
echo “alias wlan0 b43″ >> /etc/modprobe.conf
system-network-config
I should have an external hard drive tomorrow so that I can install Fedora 10 then I’ll correct these instructions. For some reason my internal card doesn’t like these drivers (last I checked) but it likes the Windows drivers, so I may use ndiswrapper. Who knows?
A large majority of the post was forked from http://fedoramobile.org/fc-wireless/bcm43xx-yum-extras.
