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!

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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Ok, I’ve been bugged by so many people asking me why Subvisualshub.com doesn’t offer Unlimited plans when it seems to be a norm out there. Time and time again, I have to explain to people that Unlimited Plans are all a scam.Before you purchase these unlimited plans, please read your terms and conditions as well as your service level agreement. You’ll realize that there is a clause about abusive usage of account.

That includes trying to fully utilize what you “thought” you paid for. So I decided to once and for all let those who believe that Unlimited Plans are a dream come true understand that it is Too Good To Be True! I randomly chose one of the Top 10 hostings sites, StartLogic and had a short chat with their live sales.

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Just bought a new portable hard disk drive yesterday unplanned. I guess I need a dedicated HDD since my IPod Video got fried right after replacing its LCD screen which had a dead line in between the screen. Thank you Apple for making your products so easy to part with.

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I have just downloaded the not so new Mozilla browser, Flock 2.0 Beta. I simply think its great! It was built on top of Firefox 3 so Firefox users would know that it has improved performance and all kinds of features and…IT BEATS IE7 HANDS DOWN!

On top of that, I didn’t even log into Antblogz to post this. All with the courtesy of Flock’s blog editor! Well it is a simple blog editor and not customized with Antblogz’s extra features so you won’t be able to post photos from your database in Antblogz or link it to the Flickr account like how you would do on Antblogz’s post writer. But its great to create a draft with and save on Antblogz so that you just have to come online to insert your uploaded pictures into position. This will help you avoid losing the long written post due to an expired session.

Now my Flock is linked to my Flickr, Facebook, Antblogz, YouTube, Gmail and Yahoo! Mail. Perfect. Anticipating more exciting features in Flock.   I also have lots of blogs that I like to read on the RSS on Flock, so whenever they are updated, so will I!

Happy to have a fast performing browser on my Vista.

Deen Yusoff

• Windows Vista Business (32 bit)
• Pentium D 2.8GHz
• 2GB Ram (DDR2)
• 250GB Hdd

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