Installing Joomla in Linux

This tutorial series is made to teach you how to make website easily using Joomla Content Management System. In this part I am showing you how to get joomla from internet and install to the webserver directory in Linux based system.

Importance of Open Document Format: in short

Open Document Format (ODF) is about freedom from Vendor-lock document format. Its not just Linux. Its not just Open Source. Its about the documents/media we create, we archive. We want our documents to exist and work for years similar to manuscripts, stone/metal caved scripts, manifestos and epics... So we need some format in which we can save those documents to work for centuries and our successors for centuries can access it.

With MS DOC/XLS/PPT or any other formats.. its not possible. If u see now Word Perfect files of few years ago cannot be opened in MS Office 2007. and u cannot install WordPerfect in latest operating systems. To convert your files you have to pay for its support. So either way won't work.

But Open Document Format(ODF) is such a standard that its always accessible and will always be compatible.

Thats the reason why NATO and many western countries has already made ODF mandatory and of national standard. source(wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_adoption

Open Document Format primarily include OpenDocument Text(.odt) OpenDocument Spreadsheet(.ods), OpenDocument Presentation(.odp). But extends to media files, images, and everything which forms a pool and we refer as Open Standards.

These Open Standards, Open Source Softwares, Open Source Hardwares, Open Content and all are grouped to refer as Open Technology. With Open Technology, we have Open and Vendor-locking-free society.

This is just one importance of ODF.
You can dig more on it at:
http://www.oasis-open.org/specs/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument_standardization
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
http://www.documentfreedom.org/

How to install broadcom BCM4312 wireless driver in ubuntu 9.10

I purchased a new Dell Inspiron 1525 laptop.
I tried ubuntu 9.10 live cd but the wireless was not working. Infact the hardware drivers in system>administraton shows i need to download driver to use my broadcom wireless device. I used wired connection to download the package and activated the hardware from it. It started working.

So with same hope. Hope that everything will work in my machine, I installed ubuntu 9.10 in my laptop. But unexpected happened. my wireless device was not working and as i rechecked hardware drivers tool in system>administration, there is no device shown.

I did #lspci in terminal and then found that my wireless device is listed as:
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)

I gave multiple tries installing and removing broadcom package as listed in synaptic list. To my surprise nothing positive happened. In one point my linux was not booting with same kernel (2.6.31-20-generic) saying "kernel panic". I tried with another kernel (2.6.31-14-generic) from grub and linux booted. I then went through all sort of forum and mailing lists. But no solution.

At one point i reached this site:
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php


Success story is below:
Download wireless driver from the link http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php
Download as per your OS architecture. My was 32bit so I used 32-bit driver version 5.60.48.36

Extract it and read the readme file

On Ubuntu, you will need headers and tools to compile/make the driver. Type following lines in terminal:
# sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic
# sudo apt-get build-dep linux

To check to see if you have this directory do this:

# ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build

Now  go to terminal and type:

# mkdir hybrid_wl
# cd hybrid_wl
# tar xzf /hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36.tar.gz
(in my case: /home/prabin/Downloads/hybrid-portsrc-x86_32-v5.60.48.36.tar.gz)

Now make:

# make clean (optional)
# make

now when its done.. wl.ko file along with other files will be created.

Let me be lazy and copy steps from readme file

Fresh installation:
------------------
1: Remove any other drivers for the Broadcom wireless device.

There are several open source drivers that are used to drive Broadcom 802.11
chips such as b43 and ssb. They will conflict with this driver and need
to be uninstalled before this driver can be installed.  Any previous 
revisions of the wl driver also need to be removed.

Note: On some systems such as Ubuntu 9.10, the ssb module may load during
boot even though it is blacklisted (see note under Common Issues on how to
resolve this). Nevertheless, ssb still must be removed
(by hand or script) before wl is loaded. The wl driver will not function 
properly if ssb the module is loaded.

# lsmod  | grep "b43\|ssb\|wl"

If any of these are installed, remove them:
# rmmod b43
# rmmod ssb
# rmmod wl

To blacklist these drivers and prevent them from loading in the future:
# echo "blacklist ssb" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf
# echo "blacklist b43" >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf

2: Insmod the driver.

Otherwise, if you have not previously installed a wl driver, you'll need
to add a security module before using the wl module.  Most newer systems 
use lib80211 while others use ieee80211_crypt_tkip. See which one works for 
your system.

# modprobe lib80211 
  or 
# modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip

Then:
# insmod wl.ko

wl.ko is now operational.  It may take several seconds for the Network 
Manager to notice a new network driver has been installed and show the
surrounding wireless networks.

Now you are done.

It must work but in my case i had to type :

# modprobe lib80211 
# insmod wl.ko

every time after login to my account.

I tried with rc5.d and init.d making script to make it run at startup but i failed. for few days I kept the script file in "startup applications"(system>preferences)

Finally AKS(friend of mine) told me to add both lines above to /etc/rc.local

I did so above the line "exit 0"

Hurray! its working now...

The rc.local now looks:

#!/bin/sh -e
#
# rc.local
#
# This script is executed at the end of each multiuser runlevel.
# Make sure that the script will "exit 0" on success or any other
# value on error.
#
# In order to enable or disable this script just change the execution
# bits.
#
# By default this script does nothing.

modprobe lib80211
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic/build/hybrid_wl/wl.ko



exit 0