[QUOTE=Gaza Pen Pal;29824792]when installing arch, are there any packages that i can select that will give me broadcom drivers?[/QUOTE]
The broadcom drivers are separated in 4 drivers.
You have b43 & b43-legacy which will often require firmware that has to be downloaded. These are available from the arch repos. The module is in the kernel but the firmware doesn't come with it.
[url]http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/b43[/url]
You have brcm80211. This one comes with the kernel as well. It is a bit newer and support a little number of cards.
[url]http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Drivers/brcm80211[/url]
You also have broadcom-wl which is the new opensource driver. It is available from AUR and will require an internet connection.
[url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless#Determine_which_driver_you_need.2Fcan_use[/url]
All of these pages should give you a list of cards supported by the driver. You need to select the right one and then you can either get the driver or the firmware on a USB stick and install.
[url]https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless[/url]
This article on the arch wiki gives instruction for the 4 drivers.
An easier method would be to plug the thing in through ethernet and then, with internet access you can download the packages you need from AUR (depending if you need them)
[editline]14th May 2011[/editline]
Here's a way to find what card you have.
Running: [code]lspci -nn[/code]
should give you a list of devices with their names and IDs (Here's mine)
[code]
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 82925X/XE Memory Controller Hub [8086:2584] (rev 0e)
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82925X/XE PCI Express Root Port [8086:2585] (rev 0e)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller [8086:2668] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2660] (rev 04)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2666] (rev 04)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 [8086:2658] (rev 04)
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 [8086:2659] (rev 04)
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 [8086:265a] (rev 04)
00:1d.3 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 [8086:265b] (rev 04)
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller [8086:265c] (rev 04)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge [8086:244e] (rev d4)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge [8086:2640] (rev 04)
00:1f.1 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller [8086:266f] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 82801FR/FRW (ICH6R/ICH6RW) SATA Controller [8086:2652] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:266a] (rev 04)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G96 [GeForce 9500 GT] [10de:0640] (rev a1)
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1677] (rev 01)
04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)
04:05.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8001 Gigabit Ethernet Controller [11ab:4320] (rev 13)
04:06.0 RAID bus controller [0104]: Silicon Image, Inc. SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] Serial ATA Controller [1095:3114] (rev 02)
04:07.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller [104c:8025] (rev 01)
[/code]
Here's my broadcom card:
[code]04:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4318] (rev 02)[/code]
The two numbers in square brackets at the end are the vendor id and the device id. You'll need to know you device id to compare with the lists given on the various sites.
I somehow, after a reboot, have LXDE AND Openbox running at the same time...
[img]http://i.imgur.com/HLnE7.png[/img]
Not sure how I did this.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;29831180]I somehow, after a reboot, have LXDE AND Openbox running at the same time...
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/HLnE7.png[/img_thumb]
Not sure how I did this.[/QUOTE]
LXDE RUNS on openbox.
[QUOTE=Dr. Deeps;29831180]I somehow, after a reboot, have LXDE AND Openbox running at the same time...
[img_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/HLnE7.png[/img_thumb]
Not sure how I did this.[/QUOTE]
..Um..Doesn't LXDE USE Openbox as it's WM? :s
GASDF ninja'd
I've been trying to use awk to rename a bunch of files on my system but I'm hitting a bump. Here's what I would ended up doing using sed.
[code]
ls | sed -rn 's/foo-([0-9]).([0-9]{2})-bar.ext/mv & FooBar-\2\1.ext/p' | awk '{system($0);}'
[/code]
This is obviously not the proper way of doing this. I'd like to be able to not use sed to forge my command and simply forge it in awk and run it from awk.
I have 2 problems.
Awk doesn't seem to like: "[0-9]{2}" in my regex
egrep and sed work completely fine for that expression. I even checked some guides explaining regex in sed and they said that "wh{2}at" matches "whhat". That's not a big deal I can always do "[0-9][0-9]".
I don't know how to split an input line with a regex. In sed I can use \1 \2 \3 and so on in the search and replace command. I know that $0 is the whole input line is awk and that $1 $2 $3 $4 are the fields split by the split char.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;29831301]..Um..Doesn't LXDE USE Openbox as it's WM? :s
GASDF ninja'd[/QUOTE]
Why the fuck didn't it do it before then? It only happened after I installed XFCE... Fucking weird.
Indeed, as it is LXDE's default WM.
So the next version of Ubuntu won't have GNOME as a fallback.
I guess there will be another fork: Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, now Gubuntu.
I'm thinking about what desktop environment to use and was thinking about using LXDE but I noticed their domain expired, is it a dead project?
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;29834412]So the next version of Ubuntu won't have GNOME as a fallback.
I guess there will be another fork: Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, now Gubuntu.[/QUOTE]
PROTIP: Ubuntu uses GNOME, it's just using the relatively decent Unity shell instead of the godshitawful GNOME Shell.
[QUOTE=esalaka;29840206]PROTIP: Ubuntu uses GNOME, it's just using the relatively decent Unity shell instead of the godshitawful GNOME Shell.[/QUOTE]
Honestly, I think GNOME Shell kicks the shit out of Unity. It's actually USABLE and relatively intuitive on a big screen. Unity should NOT be used on anything but small screens or touch screens, in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;29842247]Honestly, I think GNOME Shell kicks the shit out of Unity. It's actually USABLE and relatively intuitive on a big screen. Unity should NOT be used on anything but small screens or touch screens, in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my family computer, fucking Unity is fucking, god damn it doesn't make sense for shit
Considering falling back to 10.04 LTS on all computers
[QUOTE=Elecbullet;29842969]I installed Ubuntu 11.04 on my family computer, fucking Unity is fucking, god damn it doesn't make sense for shit
Considering falling back to 10.04 LTS on all computers[/QUOTE]
Or just use Mint v:v:v
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;29842247]Honestly, I think GNOME Shell kicks the shit out of Unity. It's actually USABLE and relatively intuitive on a big screen. Unity should NOT be used on anything but small screens or touch screens, in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I use KDE. I can avoid all this Gnome vs Unity drama. :v:
But I think in the long run Gnome will be better than Unity. Like KDE 4.0 was pretty crappy, but the current 4.6 is awesome.
I've decided to go with KDE for the moment, my laptop isn't low end so I'm not too worried about resource usage, time to have some real fun with Arch now. It is so much more a challenge than Ubuntu was, it pretty much did everything for me :D
Need some help here!
I got steam working, but I can't start any games. The regular "preparing to launch [game]" window comes up, but after a short while it just closes. No error or anything. I'm completely new to linux (I have ubuntu 11.04) so I have no idea how to fix it. And google didn't help much either. Any ideas?
what program do i need to run dvd's? I'm running Ubuntu, all i wanna do is watch monty python :saddowns:
[QUOTE=Sc00by22;29844539]I've decided to go with KDE for the moment, my laptop isn't low end so I'm not too worried about resource usage, time to have some real fun with Arch now. It is so much more a challenge than Ubuntu was, it pretty much did everything for me :D[/QUOTE]
Just discovered how activities work in KDE. You should mess around with them. They basically are on-the-fly, changeable desktop configs.
[QUOTE=snuwoods;29846159]Just discovered how activities work in KDE. You should mess around with them. They basically are on-the-fly, changeable desktop configs.[/QUOTE]
I haven't messed with activities in a long time. Last time I did was probably around 4.2 and it messed up my desktop somehow.
I have a question. On arch, what is the difference between gcc and gcc-multilib. I would assume that gcc-multilib can build either x86 or x86_64
[QUOTE=Lyoko774;29842247]Honestly, I think GNOME Shell kicks the shit out of Unity. It's actually USABLE and relatively intuitive on a big screen. Unity should NOT be used on anything but small screens or touch screens, in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
I will consider GNOME Shell godshitawful as long as it doesn't have a real fallback (ie. stop requiring HW acceleration and then refusing to work with my drivers you conksuck shitdump)
[editline]15th May 2011[/editline]
[QUOTE=Boris-B;29846948]I have a question. On arch, what is the difference between gcc and gcc-multilib. I would assume that gcc-multilib can build either x86 or x86_64[/QUOTE]
You want gcc-multilib so you can build lib32-packages.
So yeah, that's the difference. gcc only builds native.
[QUOTE=esalaka;29848449]I will consider GNOME Shell godshitawful as long as it doesn't have a real fallback (ie. stop requiring HW acceleration and then refusing to work with my drivers you conksuck shitdump)
[editline]15th May 2011[/editline]
You want gcc-multilib so you can build lib32-packages.
So yeah, that's the difference. gcc only builds native.[/QUOTE]
Unity-2D isn't included in 11.04 IIRC...you can still only get it from a PPA..
So NEITHER of them have a "proper" fallback - They both fallback to gnome-panel.
KDE seems to be working on my laptop just fine. I just fixed a slight sound issue I had(very quiet on max volume), installed a few things: Intel Drivers, KPackageKit, Chromium, Flash and a few others. I only have one problem left; pages are loading very slow in all browsers.
So I am trying to host some files on my arch FTP server and I have mounted the drive to /mnt/usb/ but I have not clue how to make a user access it in VSFTPD.
[QUOTE=esalaka;29848449]
You want gcc-multilib so you can build lib32-packages.
So yeah, that's the difference. gcc only builds native.[/QUOTE]
The 64-bit Gcc has the -m32 flag which builds 32-bit binaries. I don't think anything else is required.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;29869063]The 64-bit Gcc has the -m32 flag which builds 32-bit binaries. I don't think anything else is required.[/QUOTE]
You need gcc-multilib for proper placement of the 32-bit libraries, or something.
It's the arch standard for 32-bit libs on the 64-bit version, so you don't probably want to deviate from it much.
no one answered my question on the bottom of last page :saddowns:
[img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/unity1.png[/img]
I realize it's rather late in the thread to introduce myself, I'm not trolling this time, but I just got Linux Mint "Julia" running today after trying to decide on a new distro, and I've enjoyed every moment of it, and that you guys will see a lot more of me in this thread, because I've decided to devote myself to the workings of the Linux kernel in it's entirety. It's been very fulfilling for me. I can't say I don't owe it to facepunch either!
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