Cocoa Break

Ok. Geek moment here. Solved troubleshooting on Linux and want to share my solution.

Error for wireless request “Set Mode” (8B06) : SET failed on device wlan0 ;
Invalid argument.  Determining IP information for wlan0…
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

If you received such an error on your laptop or desktop when you were activating your wireless card on CentOS 5.4 or perhaps any other Linux operating system, you probably need to install a few things.

Took me a whole day to realize that the latest drivers and dependencies for the Wireless Cards are not included in CentOS. I just switched from Fedora which already came with the Wireless stuff!!!

These are the few steps that MIGHT help you if your problem were exactly the same as mine.

My wifi hardware is: Intel Pro Wireless 3945 (iwl3945)
You can find full specification for my system by searching for Fujitsu LBS7110 notebook.

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Please take note that almost everything was done in the terminal mode.

Step 1:Install yum priorities

yum install -y yum-priorities

Step 2: Install RPMforge

Download the rpmforge-release package. Choose one of the two links below, depending on your architecture. If you are unsure of which one to use you can check your architecture with the command uname -i

• i386 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.i386.rpm
• x86_64 http://packages.sw.be/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.x86_64.rpm

I used CentOS’s GUI Software Installer to install the rpm packages. There will be a prompt and I clicked “Install anyway”.

You could also do it in the terminal by doing the following:

rpm --import http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/RPM-GPG-KEY.dag.txt

rpm -K rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.*.rpm

Security warning: The rpmforge-release package imports GPG keys into your RPM database. As long as you have verified the md5sum of the key injection package, and trust Dag, et al., then it should be as safe as your trust of them extends.

rpm -i rpmforge-release-0.5.1-1.el5.rf.*.rpm

Next simply install the drivers ( Click here if you are on other Network cards ) and enable the NetworkManager:

yum install iwl3945-firmware

chkconfig NetworkManager on

service NetworkManager start

Restart/Reboot your laptop or desktop and you will see the wireless working!

With reference to the blog post at http://www.temasekreview.com/2009/11/19/singapore-declares-its-recession-over/, I would like to just “pen” my thoughts here instead of commenting too much over there. This is also a reply to some of the comments in the post.
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Disneyland and Universal Studios in Asia???

http://www.flickr.com/photos/myjedilightsaber/ / CC BY 2.0

Not being prejudiced against the American Franchise but I personally think Whites won’t be all that hyped up in Universal Studios or Disneyland in Asia even with their Asian theme. Where’s the spice in that? And it just killed my dreams of taking a flight all the way to the other side of the world to see something that we don’t have! Now, I’d be comparing the 2 theme parks instead of being amazed with just one.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/lyng883/ / CC BY 2.0

I love the idea of a theme park here honestly, but why not be a little different? Like an Anime theme park. Get a consortium of all Asian fiction companies and make a huge ass theme park out of this world. Make it so different that the people from the other side of the world would visit Singapore just to let their kids poke on Pokemon or something? It seems to me that the other side of the world are already in love with Asian cartoons for quite sometime now…

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricmartins/ / CC BY 2.0

Yeah yeah, I know, they gave it to the highest bidder or whoever proposed to them and no Asian Anime Consortium came up to them with a proposal that was out of this world. I’ve posted this, and I can’t patent an idea, but I am sure someday even in a distant future, there will be an Asian that decides to make this come true. I would love to do that if I get an opportunity though. And yes Indians, Arabs or even the Hebrews are Asians too.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ricmartins/ / CC BY 2.0

But if the future is bleak…. it might turn out to be a “Fun-filled” Hentai Themepark that replaces the ancient Red Light Districts especially the infamous Amsterdam as maybe the people of the future would want more alternative lifestyle. I hope not though…

Deen Yusoff

My family just bought me another gift. A new pair of shoes for the festive season. It’s comfy and I think it looks great.

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This comes a little late. My sister just bought me the smallest colour laser printer in the market, the Samsung CLP-310, at the Comex on 31st August 2008. It was so hard to walk around but it came with a great deal. For just S$268/- it comes with a trolley (if they didn’t give this I wouldn’t have bought it of course!), 3 years warranty and a 1gb small and cute necklace style MP3 player.

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