Unblock disabled wireless card in Ubuntu

I have got broadcom wireless card installed in my Ubuntu Box and it works fine. But lately I found a very strange problem. All of a sudden, It stopped working. I mean I couldn’t turn it on anyway, It always appeared as disabled. I tried uninstalling the driver and re-install of the driver, it seemed … Continue reading “Unblock disabled wireless card in Ubuntu”

Install Instantbird in ubuntu11.10 with unity/docky launcher

I have been longtime user of Pidgin and liked it very much. But recenlty I was having problem with it. It was frequently breaking up the connections and dropping my messages. So, I had to look for alternatives and found instantbird and gave it try. It multimessenger client so you can be online in multiple … Continue reading “Install Instantbird in ubuntu11.10 with unity/docky launcher”

[Solved] Heroku login problem for heroku facebook app

Heroku provides the free webhosting for facebook applications. If you want to know more about Heroku you can visit their sites. They have very good introduction. From October 1, 2011, see here https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/497/ Facebook required the https connection for Facebook application and Heroku freely provides it. Great. Thanks to Heroku. This guide is for Ubuntu … Continue reading “[Solved] Heroku login problem for heroku facebook app”

[Solved] Virtualbox Stopped working after ubuntu upgrade

If you don’t know what Virtualbox is you can read about it here. If you are familiar with VMWare (Virtualization Software). Its kind of similar to that for Linux. It is also available for windows as well. Now, back to the main problem. Recently I made upgrade from Lucid to Oneiric. This upgrade broke many … Continue reading “[Solved] Virtualbox Stopped working after ubuntu upgrade”

[Solved] Wireless driver stopped working after upgrade – Ubuntu

I upgraded my Ubuntu box and after success restart I found that WIFI was not working anymore. I knew that my wireless driver was broadcom. Verify with command [sourcecode language=’bash’]$ lspci -vnn | grep Broadcom[/sourcecode] output: 03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY [14e4:4315] (rev 01) 1. To make it work, I first … Continue reading “[Solved] Wireless driver stopped working after upgrade – Ubuntu”