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There is no particular reason for this post. I know no point in the above statement. Almost all posts in this blog is not about a particular idea. They happened when i get bored or get some time in which no other bullshit to be done. All my professional life till time is about goals and deadlines. And sometimes when i get frustrated, I launch the browser, open my blog and publish something.

Same happened today, the only difference is that, i didn’t open the browser. but opened an application in my latest KDE 4.4 called "Blogilo". I decided to check, whether it will work with my wordpress blog or not.I just opened it, I came up after asking for the KDEWallet global password and shown me it’s UI. The UI was stunning to catch your eye in first look.

Later what i did was

Opened Settings -> Configure Blogilo -> blogs

Clicked the button "Add" and given my blog authentication details in the window.

When I clicked the "Auto-Configure" button, it shown me some error

Then I logged in to my blog and changed the setting accordingly

My account is now verified and my blog title is retrieved.

Now my wordpress account is added successfully.

And my previous posts are listed in the main window.

And here comes my first post using Blogilo.

It was after a bit long time I am writing this. The main update is that, I changed the blog template today. Change from blue-black combo to black and white. The new look is a little modified version of Jillij. I made it a little wider to suit the 1024 * x resolution. It is a very simple and soft-eye theme with single column layout and I liked it very much.

After Fossmeet@NITC the life got tied mostly with office works and I didn’t get much time to blog or play with FOSS seriously. My lappy was almost sleeping these days. Now a bit relaxed after busy office schedule and planning to do something useful to me and the community. Have to look in to some ideas soon.

That’s all for now… more later…

I was a bit disappointed when It came to my attention that the Network Controller in my DI15 is Broadcom, which don’t have any free drivers. Somebody told me that I may have to install NDISwrapper and use the windows driver to make it work. I have googled a lot for the howtos of installing and using NDISwrapper. From a blog I got the information that NDISwrapper not needed any more for Broadcom adapters, there are driver packages available for various GNU/Linux Distros, but are non-free. The only advantage is that we don’t have to go for the ugly windows stuff.

RPMs for Broadcom 802.11 wireless drivers are now available in the rpmfusion repository of fedora 10. All we have to do is 2-3 simple steps and here is what I have done in my system.

1) Enable the rpmfusion repository

You have to enable the rpmfusion repository using the command

sudo rpm -Uvh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2) Update the repo and install the driver package

The package we have to install is broadcom-wl and it depends on the package kmod-wl

sudo yum update
sudo yum install broadcom-wl

3) Reboot the system

When the system boots up, network manager will then detect the Broadcom wireless device and you will be able to connect to the wireless network through it

NB: Make sure that the “broadcom” kernel module is loaded. if not, add a line “modprobe broadcom” in /etc/rc.modules (In debian or debian based distros add a line “broadcom” in /etc/modules)

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