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Saturday Morning

admin — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 13:26:35 +0000

HP mini 5102 and Gobi un2420 on Ubuntu

admin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:03:06 +0000

Few weeks ago I bought HP mini 5102 which has built in Gobi un2420 (Mobile Broadband Module). Everything works out of the box on Windows 7 with HP software connection manager. However, the Ubuntu Lucid is “more complicated” than Windows 7.

There are a few things you should know before you will be able to use it on Ubuntu:

1. step) Download my QUALCOMM directory from Windows 7 (Qualcom.zip)

2. step) Create a new folder containing QUALCOMM firmware

sudo mkdir -p /lib/firmware/gobi

3. step) Unzip previously downloaded Qualcom.zip folder and copy country code files to “/lib/firmware/gobi” directory

sudo cp -pi /QUALCOMM/Images/HP/6/* /lib/firmware/gobi sudo cp -pi /QUALCOMM/Images/HP/UMTS/* /lib/firmware/gobi

Use files from 6th directory, if you are from Europe. On the official HP website you can choose which package suits your needs.

In my case there are 3 files copied to /lib/firmware/gobi. Here is the output of this folder:

4. step) Download Lucid patch, unzip it and than install it

tar -xvzf qcserial.tar.gz cd qcserial make sudo make install

5. step) Download latest Gobi loader (latest gobi_loader-0.7.tar.gz)

tar -xvzf gobi_loader-0.7.tar.gz cd gobi_loader-0.7 make sudo make install

6. step) Restart your computer and than do this:
sudo pkill modem-manager

sudo /lib/udev/gobi_loader -2000 /dev/ttyUSB0 /lib/firmware/gobi/

After reboot there should be Modem broadband listed under connection manager. When you run it for the first time select your country and mobile operator. It should load default setting by itself.

Lithuania TNC 2010

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:04:51 +0000

Last week I attended a conference in Lithuania. The TERENA Networking Conference (TNC) is the largest and most prestigious European research networking conference – over 500 participants including decision makers, networking specialists and managers from all major European networking and research organisations, universities, worldwide sister institutions and industry representatives attend.

In my free time I shot a few pictures. More pictures can be seen on my flickr account.

Spam block

admin — Sun, 16 May 2010 10:45:27 +0000

Global spam problems have significantly increased during the first quarter of 2010, with a rise in snowshoe spam and an exponential growth in Botnet spam distribution. I was forced to block few spam countries on our website projects.

I have currently blocked two countries. You can view my .htaccess deny list for Korea and China.

My FaceBook account deleted

admin — Wed, 12 May 2010 20:32:11 +0000

I’ve deleted everything and deactivated my account on FaceBook. It feels like an enormous weight has been lifted of my shoulders. I found out it’s just a ton of time wasted on what essentially amounts to nothing.

I think by spending more time in real life with real friends will be much more effective.