Get K3b To burn MP3′s

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Kubuntu, Mini How To on Dec 8th, 2008 | 1 comment

Update: Made changes below to offer solution for K3B in 9.10

“Mini How To” Get K3b To burn MP3′s

If you have used k3b before and tried to burn a audio CD from MP3′s then you know this doesn’t just work. You have to install some codecs to get this to work. Here is how:

Install the libk3b2-extracodecs like this:

sudo apt-get install libk3b2-extracodecs

For users of Kubuntu 9.10 use this:

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Getting Flash And Java To Work On Kubuntu

Posted by Berry van der Linden in Featured, Kubuntu on Nov 27th, 2008 | 0 comments

Another installment of the series “The Move from Windows to Kubuntu is Smoother than You Think” was published on Bright Hub. This Part is titled “Making Your Kubuntu Installation Usable: Install Firefox Java And Flash” In this part I show the readers how to use perfect*buntu to install Java and Flash and perfect*buntu brings more to the table then that. Skype and Remastersys are also option for installation among others. Please support this blog and read my article on Bright Hub.

Thanks,
[mad]Berry

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How To Get Atheros AR242x To Work on 8.10 Intrepid Ibex

Posted by Berry van der Linden in AR242x, Internet, Kubuntu, Terminal on Nov 7th, 2008 | 524 comments

Updates

**02-24-2009** Instructions for fix after update to kernel 2.6.27-11-generic below.  This how to uses compat-wireless-2009-02-24.tar.bz2. It was tested on (K)Ubuntu 8.10 KDE 4.1.2. Kernel version 2.6.27-7-generic & 2.6.27-9-generic

For instructions on getting the AR242x to work on 8.04 click here.

Introduction

You could see this as part 3 in the series: How To Get Atheros AR242x Wireless To Work
It’s with disappointment that I have to report the following:

I started with a fresh install of Kubuntu 8.10, the reason for this is simple I wanted to make sure that nobody could say “you should have done a clean install”. On a clean install out of the box the AR242x doesn’t work.

What I Tried First

So I started to search for solutions. There a several solutions out there here is a quick list:

  • Install linux-backports-modules-intrepid. This works but you would have to reload the driver every time you log on.
  • Blacklist ath_hal and ath_pci. This didn’t work for me. The idea behind this is that the madwifi module will not load and instead ath5k is used.
  • Download and install the new wireless driver which uses the newest version of ath5k.

    • The last option worked the best for me so that is what I’ll go with for this how to. Let me clarify that ath_hal, ath5k and ath9k are all developed by madwifi so props to them for doing such a great job of developing the drivers that make wireless for the AR242x work under Linux.

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