{"id":406,"date":"2009-03-11T12:12:07","date_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=406"},"modified":"2009-03-11T12:15:38","modified_gmt":"2009-03-11T16:15:38","slug":"wireless-yeah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/?p=406","title":{"rendered":"Wireless? Yeah!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a story with <code>sombragris<\/code>, the trusty laptop that my brother, friend and namesake <a href=\"http:\/\/soulkiln.blogspot.com\/\">Ed Hurst<\/a> graciously gave me. Sombragris is a Dell Latitude D505, and works great with Linux. Great, that is, with the exception of wireless networking, which is furnished by a Broadcom chipset, that never worked, not even in Windows.<\/p>\n<p>Now, whenever I checked <code>\/var\/log\/syslog<\/code> I began to notice something similar to these lines:<\/p>\n<p><code>Feb 10 20:32:53 sombragris kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: Firmware file \"b43\/ucode5.fw\" not found<br \/>\nFeb 10 20:32:53 sombragris kernel: b43-phy0 ERROR: You must go to http:\/\/linuxwireless.org\/en\/users\/Drivers\/b43#devicefirmware and download the latest firmware (version 4).<\/code><\/p>\n<p>And just because I was tired, I wondered&#8230; &#8220;what if I go to that website, get the darned firmware, and see what happens? At least I will make these annoying warnings go away&#8230;&#8221; And I did exactly that.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxwireless.org\">the Linux Wireless Wiki<\/a> is an excellent resource on all things wireless on Linux. I followed the instructions that it gave me, got the Broadcom firmware, placed it in \/lib\/firmware, and lo and behold! I am wireless!<\/p>\n<p>Next, I tested the usability of the wireless connection with the wireless network that my sister put up at Mom&#8217;s home. It is a network with an encrypted password, and a good speed. Armed with the passphrase, I was granted access in no time.<\/p>\n<p>Now, I am writing this post using <code>wlan0<\/code> as my Internet connection. Yikes!<\/p>\n<p>And here I am, working wireless in GNU\/Linux, in a machine whose wireless was unusable in Windows. If only I had paid attention to that warning before. Oh well&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>And thank you, Lord, for our small discoveries of every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a story with sombragris, the trusty laptop that my brother, friend and namesake Ed Hurst graciously gave me. Sombragris is a Dell Latitude D505, and works great with Linux. Great, that is, with the exception of wireless networking, which is furnished by a Broadcom chipset, that never worked, not even in Windows. Now, whenever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[124,221,75,123],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-chance","tag-computers","tag-linux","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":410,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406\/revisions\/410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shadow.sombragris.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}