Saturday, April 15, 2006

Working with RDP in Ubuntu

Right this moment I am remoting into my wifes Windows XP machine, it is really quite cool to be able to this seeing as I haven't played with this at all in over a year. I am going to try this with my dads computer over this holiday weekend and see what I can do to have some fun with lots of people. It is Sunday morning and I am stuck watching Dotto Tech. I just have one question about this show. Why do they never cover Linux? They allways cover Windows and Mac but why will they never even mention Linux, I think that if we all got together and wrote this show, we would all see this guy start learning the Linux world as we all know it. I went to his web site and found no contact us button to eb able to voice my opinion. I started this some time ago, the problem has been the plain and simple fact that I am testing Fedora Core 5. But I am going to continue with this entry. I use the RDP protocol because I am basically lazy and don't want to get off of my but to deal with my wifes windows computer, I also remote into my desktop from my laptop and so on and no forth. I will leave it at that for now and see what else I see when I finally get the time to reinstall Ubuntu some time in the next week or so.
Y'all come back soon ya heer!

Wednesday, April 12, 2006

Got it! Broadcom 4318 Wireless

I now have my Broadcom 4318 wireless adapter working, and am going to describe how I did things.
The first thing I am going to do is direct you to this url https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Broadcom43xx?highlight=%28broadcom%29
Then what I have done is everything to the point of the first Now you're ready to skip down to the "Skip down to here!" header.

Then you MUST do
sudo iwconfig eth1 mode auto
sudo iwconfig eth1 rate 11M
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap any

Then what I did was sudo dhclient eth1, then I try to ping say www.google.ca or something to that effect and if it work, then you are now connected through the wireless.

It has been over night now, and I have to bring the wireless up manually for some reason. Other than that it works quite well, the only thing you have to do to bring it up manually is to do this;
sudo iwconfig eth1 ap any
sudo dhclient eth1

Then I ping wwww.google.ca to be sure that it worked and then I am done.

Well, I thought I was done. I went to my favorite coffee house today and guess what.... I could not connect. This is getting to be a funny thing, I have never had this much trouble out of once piece of hardware.