How was Firefox 3 Release Party in Dublin?

Last Thursday [19.06.2008] I went to the Firefox 3 Release Party in Cineworld, Dublin. I’ve been using Firefox for a good few years now, so I joined the celebration of the new release. Before the party I’ve seen on the website that around 300 people registered for it. Honestly, there were never than many there. Well, maybe they just dropped in for a little while and went. The free Tiger beer vanished very quickly.
This event was held after the end of the second day of the Irish Open Source Technology Conference (IOTC).

Here’s what it looked like:

Free Mozilla Firefox swag:

ubuntu-ie gets an office space!

Yay! Great news everyone! Irish Ubuntu Community got an office space at Camara.

Camara is an Irish Charity. They take in second hand computers that have been discarded by Irish Organisations and individuals, refurbish them, install customized version of edubuntu (camarabuntu) and send them to schools and colleges in Africa.

ubuntu-ie has decided to work closely with Camara, and we were offered an office space for our LoCo meet-ups and future events like: workshops, presentations, tutorials etc. Big thanks for that goes to Eoghan at Camara!

Either you have an ubuntu related problem, want to know/learn more about ubuntu or just want to have a chat, you’re very welcome to call in! We’re open on Saturdays 11am - 4pm. We also encourage you to contribute to Camara project.

Address:
The Digital Hub
10-13 Thomas Street
Dublin 8
Ireland

Hope to see you there!

Wireless [rtl8187b] on Toshiba A200-1V0 [Ubuntu 8.04]

I tried quite a few methods and drivers before. Unfortunately none of them worked for me.
Because I’m using the Huawei e220 USB Modem and didn’t really need the wireless that urgently, I gave up for a while.

Today I’ve decided to give it another go and started searching for ‘new’ methods/solutions/drivers in ubuntuforums. I found one that worked for me and hope that it will also work for you, if you haven’t fixed it already ;-]

This HowTo was originally posted in ubuntuforums by pana.corbului

First you have to be sure that your wireless card is using the rtl 8187b chipset. You can check this by issueing lsusb command in console

octav@toshiba:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 04d9:0499 Holtek Semiconductor, Inc.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0bda:8197 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Next, you’ll install ndiswrapper which is a software for using Windows wireless drivers with Linux, if the current linux kernel doesn´t support a certain device.

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

Stop the network

sudo /etc/init.d/networking stop

Download driver from here and save it to your deskop and install it using ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper -i ~/Desktop/net8187b.inf

Check if it was properly installed

sudo ndiswrapper -l

The output should be something like net8187b : driver installed device (0BDA:8197) present;

If there were no erros you can build kernel module

sudo ndiswrapper -m
sudo modprobe ndiswrapper

Start networking

sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Activate wireless interface from laptop’s switch.

Hope it’s working for you already.

When trying to install the driver with ndiswrapper you get this kind of message:

couldn’t find “RTL8187B.sys” in “/home/Desktop”; make sure all driver files, including .inf, .sys (and any firmware files) are in “/home/Desktop” -
installation may be incomplete

then you’ll need to download this RTL8187B.sys file from here and save it to the same location as the rtl8187b.inf. Now install the driver again and continue with the next steps.