[Solved] [YAKA] Yet Another KDE 3.5.9+hal+ntfs-3g Automount Prob

Ok so the basics
KDE 3.5.9 from kdemod (not the full version): from desktop go to control center -> Desktop -> Behavior -> Device Symbols (3rd Tab) and make sure the box is checked (Checked) --> I got the corresponding Icons On Desktop
CD-ROM/DVD-ROM automounting and autounmounting works like charm, with the icon showing up, and eject command unmount and removes the icon.
extx partitions work great as with reiserf
As root everything works, with ntfs, both on Konqueror and from CLI
But as user I Got the hideous:
TODO: have to rethink extra options
I have installed latest hal, ntfs-3g, dbus
NEXT the files:
/sda3/etc/fstab (dbus removed from demons as instructed from the wiki)
# /etc/fstab: static file system information
# <file system> <dir> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
none /dev/pts devpts defaults 0 0
none /dev/shm tmpfs defaults 0 0
#/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
#/dev/dvd /mnt/dvd udf ro,user,noauto,unhide 0 0
/dev/sda1 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda3 / ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda5 /home ext3 defaults 0 1
/dev/sda7 /mnt/repos reiserfs defaults 0 1
/etc/rc.conf
LOCALE="en_US.utf8"
HARDWARECLOCK="localtime"
TIMEZONE="Europe/Athens"
KEYMAP="us"
CONSOLEFONT=
CONSOLEMAP=
USECOLOR="yes"
# Scan hardware and load required modules at bootup
MOD_AUTOLOAD="yes"
# Module Blacklist - modules in this list will never be loaded by udev
MOD_BLACKLIST=()
MODULES=(powernow-k8 fuse forcedeth slhc ac97_bus snd-mixer-oss snd-pcm-oss snd-page-alloc snd-pcm snd-timer snd snd-ac97-codec snd-intel8x0 soundcore ac battery button fan thermal loop)
# Scan for LVM volume groups at startup, required if you use LVM
USELVM="no"
DAEMONS=(syslog-ng network portmap acpid netfs @crond sensors hal nfslock @nfsd @samba cpufreq @cups @alsa @smartd @openntpd @sshd @kdm)
from /sda3/etc/hal/fdi/policy
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
#################Automount NTFS filesystems with write support (ntfs-3g)######################3
<device>
<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
</match>
</match>
</device>
#####################Auto-mount only removable media###################[b]I think it works OK[/b]
<device>
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
########Put sync and noatime on for devices smaller than 8GB and off for devices larger than that###########[b]I do not know if this [/b]works
<device>
<match key="block.is_volume" bool="true">
<match key="volume.size" compare_lt="8000000000">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">true</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="volume.size" compare_ge="8000000000">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.removable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.sync" type="bool">false</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_option.noatime" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</match>
</device>
###############USB sticks and drives do not automount correctly################[b][b]WORKS FINE[/b][/b]
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>
from:/sda3/usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-ntfs-config-write-policy.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> 

<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="@block.storage_device:storage.hotpluggable" bool="true">
<merge key="volume.fstype" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<merge key="volume.policy.mount_filesystem" type="string">ntfs-3g</merge>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
</match>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
and usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvendor/20-storage-methods.fdi
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
<device>
<match key="info.udi" string="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer">
<append key="info.callouts.add" type="strlist">hal-storage-cleanup-all-mountpoints</append>
</match>

<match key="storage.removable" bool="true">
<append key="info.addons" type="strlist">hald-addon-storage</append>
</match>
<match key="volume.is_disc" bool="true">
<match key="volume.disc.has_audio" bool="true">
<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>
</match>
<match key="volume.disc.is_blank" bool="true">
<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="storage.media_check_enabled" bool="false">
<match key="storage.no_partitions_hint" bool="true">
<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Mount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">ssas</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">mount_point fstype extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-mount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Unmount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-unmount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>

<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">ro</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">sync</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">dirsync</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noatime</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">nodiratime</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noexec</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">quiet</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">remount</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">exec</append>

<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">utf8</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">shortname=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">codepage=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">iocharset=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">umask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">ro</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noexec</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noatime</append>
</match>
</match>
</match>
<match key="volume.fsusage" string="filesystem">



<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">false</merge>



<match key="volume.fstype" string="hfs">
<match key="volume.label" string="bootstrap">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<match key="volume.label" string="SERVICEV001">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="volume.label" string="IBM_SERVICE">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="volume.label" string="SERVICEV002">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<match key="volume.label" string="HP_RECOVERY">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="volume.label" string="Recovery Partition">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<match key="volume.label" string="DellUtility">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="volume.label" string="DellRestore">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<match key="volume.label" string="RECOVERY">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
<match key="volume.label" string="PQSERVICE">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="volume.label" string="PQSERVICE">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.partition.type" string="0x12">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<match key="volume.label" string="EFI">
<merge key="volume.ignore" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</match>
<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Mount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">ssas</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">mount_point fstype extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-mount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Unmount</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-unmount</append>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<match key="volume.linux.is_device_mapper" bool="false">
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>
</match>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>
</match>

<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">ro</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">sync</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">dirsync</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noatime</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">nodiratime</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noexec</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">quiet</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">remount</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">exec</append>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">ro</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noexec</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">noatime</append>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="vfat">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">utf8</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">shortname=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">codepage=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">iocharset=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">umask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">dmask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">fmask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">flush</append>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">longnames</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">shortnames</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">nowin95</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-u=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-g=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-m=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-M=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-L=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-D=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">large</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="hfs">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">gid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">force</append>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="hfsplus">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">force</append>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="ntfs">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">gid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">umask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">dmask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">fmask=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">locale=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">utf8</append>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-u=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-g=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-m=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-a</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-i</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-C=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-W=</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="ext3">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">acl</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">user_xattr</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">data=</append>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="ext2">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">acl</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">user_xattr</append>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="ufs">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">ufstype=</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="udf">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">umask=</append>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-C=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-v</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.fstype" string="iso9660">
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">utf8</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">uid=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">mode=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">iocharset=</append>
</match>
<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="FreeBSD">
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">extatt</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">gens</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">nojoliet</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">norrip</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">nostrictjoliet</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-s=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-C=</append>
<append key="volume.mount.valid_options" type="strlist">-v</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/computer:system.kernel.name" string="Linux">
<append key="volume.unmount.valid_options" type="strlist">lazy</append>
</match>
</match>

<match key="volume.is_disc" bool="true">
<match key="volume.fsusage" string="">
<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Volume.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>
</match>
</match>
<match key="storage.requires_eject" bool="true">

<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names" type="strlist">Eject</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-eject</append>
<append key="info.interfaces" type="strlist">org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_names" type="strlist">CloseTray</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_signatures" type="strlist">as</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_argnames" type="strlist">extra_options</append>
<append key="org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.Storage.method_execpaths" type="strlist">hal-storage-closetray</append>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>
Finaly:
# groups trotos
disk wheel video audio optical floppy storage users dbus hal trotos
AnyIdeas Why Still As User I Get The TODO S#@$t???
Thank You
I'm such a noob
KDE have this option when you right-click on a HDD from properties at the mount section at the end:
mount by user
UNCHECK ΤΗΑΤ ΟΝΕ and done
Last edited by trotos (2008-06-17 13:53:41)

Did you ever encounter these error messages:
[cyt@arch ~]$ dmesg | tail
NTFS driver 2.1.29 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS-fs error (device sdb5): parse_options(): Unrecognized mount option locale.
NTFS-fs warning (device sdb5): parse_options(): Option utf8 is no longer supported, using option nls=utf8. Please use option nls=utf8 in the future and make sure utf8 is compiled either as a module or into the kernel.
I do not add those hal related policy files, and just uncheck the "mount by user" option.

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if [[ "$#" -eq 0 ]]; then
cat $file
elif [[ "$1" = "-" ]]; then
echo $(( level - 1 )) > $file
elif [[ "$1" = "+" ]]; then
echo $(( level + 1 )) > $file
fi
then in my ~/.config/openbox/rc.xml i added the following code to bind the commands to my Super+Up and Super+Down :
<keybind key="W-Up">
<action name="Execute">
<command>brightness +</command>
</action>
</keybind>
<keybind key="W-Down">
<action name="Execute">
<command>brightness -</command>
</action>
</keybind>
Last edited by williamkray (2012-02-02 22:51:28)

[SOLVED kinda]Yet another Broadcom wireless problem - scanning

Use an old Gateway laptop with a wireless card to provide internet through NAT to my desktop computer that isn't nearby my switch. I was doing this for the longest time using WinXP on the Gateway, but since all my other computers are now running linux, I figured, hey, why not put a really sleek and sexy copy of Arch onto the Gateway, and free up some of that HD space for easier file sharing between the desktop and the rest of the network. So I installed Arch, and have run head first into how much Arch and Broadcom wireless devices do not play well together. Have spent all my time since then searching the forums, the wiki, etc, but to no avail. So going to just go ahead and finally make my own call for help via the forums here.
I've only ever ONCE seen a scan find a wireless network, and that was after my first reboot after installing arch. That was the only time. There are at all times 2-4 wireless networks in range of this computer. I'm currently on my netbook running Ubuntu to post this (typing everything in by hand, ugh), and can see 4 networks right now. The Arch laptop can't find any.
To start off with: I have read the wikis. I have searched the forums. I HAVE INSTALLED THE FIRMWARE. I've checked to make sure my card is supported, and the driver it uses is the b43, and is not supposed to be compatible with the wl driver. This is the cardbus Linksys WPC54G v1 card. I know the card itself works.
Here's the various data I'm sure will be requested of me at one point or another. This is all taken immediately after booting.
What can I try. I've probably already tried it, but I'm willing to walk through step by step with someone if they think they can help.
lspci -vnn
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:4320] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Linksys WPC54G v1 / WPC54GS v1 802.11g Wireless-G Notebook Adapter [1737:4320]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at 48000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: b43-pci-bridge
Immediately after boot if I run
dmesg (related info)
[ 7.760803] b43-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: enabling device (0000 -> 0002)
[ 7.769836] b43-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> Link[LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[ 7.760856] b43-pci-bridge 0000:03:00.0: settling latency timer to 64
[ 8.217173] b43-phy0: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found (core revision 5)
[ 8.276959] ieee80211 phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
[ 8.278657] Registered led device: b43-phy0::tx
[ 8.278721] Registered led device: b43-phy0::rx
[ 8.278788] Registered led device: b43-phy0::radio
[ 8.278831] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMNLS ]
[ 43.860080] b43-phy0: Loading firmware version 666.2 (2011-02-23 01:15:07)
[ 43.921388] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
uname -a
Linux oms-gateway 3.2.9-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Mar 1 09:10:44 UTC 2012 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Mobile CPU 1066MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
Kernel version greater than 3.2 should be able to use the version 5.100.138 Broadcom drivers.
ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 metric 1
ether 00:0f:66:2e:b0:83 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 btes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
lsmod | grep b43
b43 317649 0
mac80211 203227 1 b43
cfg80211 147716 2 mac80211,b43
ssb 42035 1 b43
mmc_core 71470 2 ssb,b43
pcmcia 31502 2 ssb,b43
iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results
Last edited by oldmansutton (2012-03-11 01:53:50)

oldmansutton wrote:
Strike0 wrote:Whether rev 3 needs legacy or not is controversial. I assume you blacklisted b43 when trying legacy?
How about any need to blacklist when you need b43. Anything suspicious around in lsmod?
with b43, you can see me previous lsmod on the original post.
with b43legacy, the only related things I see from lsmod are b43legacy, mac80211, cfg80211, and ssb.
Wait. Hmmm....
rmmod b43
modprobe b43legacy
rmmod b43legacy
modprobe b43
lsmod |grep b43
Now bcma is showing up. But it didn't before. It just started showing up with b43 since I did the compat-wireless package. But seeing as I'm getting scans SOMETIMES now, I hesitate to call it a problem. Maybe?
Any other ideas?
It can scan ONCE. The b43 driver is obviously functional at least for a bit.
Standard network service, wicd, netcfg, etc, I've tried them all. Reinstalled from scratch twice. Looking for NEW ideas basically. I've read just about every single post about every broadcom chipset out there. I just happen to have one of these rare ones apparently.
Last edited by oldmansutton (2012-03-10 17:46:59)

Display hints, custom format method in VO, is there yet another way?

Did you experience the same and had a solution?
Hi,
I am using JDeveloper 10.1.3.4 and looking for yet another way of customizing the display of an attribute of a view object.
I have two tables: BILL and AWARDS, with composite foreign key relationship (on the LDAP_UID and TERM fields) between them, as illustrated below.
The BILL table:
NAME       LDAP_UID    TERM   CREDIT_HRS
Tom Smith tom.simth   200902       12.5
Jane Lopez jane.lopez 200906        4.0
The AWARD table:
LDAP_UID    TERM SOURCE     APPLIED
tom.smith 200902 Perkins     2000.00
tom.smith 200906 Direct      1300.00
jane.lopez 200906 CN           500.00 At the business data model level, this is master(Bill)/detail(Awards) relationship. Bill is dragged from the data control palette to the page and displayed as a form, and Awards is dragged to the page as a table. When tom.smith logs in and chooses the 200902 TERM, the master and detail are joined on tom.smith=tom.smith and 200902=200902, so the $2,000.00 of Perkins loan is retrieved for him:
Name Tom Smith
Term 200902
Source    Applied
Perkins   $2,000.00That works fine but not user friendly: the values in the TERMS column are a bit cryptic and need to be displayed in plain English, i.e., 200902 should be displayed as "Spring 2009" and 200906 as "Summer 2009". The display hints in the VO can not handle this. The only other way I know is writing a method in the Row class of the VO to do the translation. And this is the result:
Name Tom Smith
Term Spring 2009
Source        Applied
No rows yet   Obviously, "Spring 2009" is used not only for display, but also for joining the master and detail tables. Of course "Spring 2009"!=200902, therefore no detail is retrieved for the user.
Question is: is there yet another way to customize the display, that does not affect the join of master and detail tables?
Many thanks for your help!
Newman

Hi, Chris,
That works!
I found the chapter where transient attribute is explained and an example is given creating a transient attribute in the entity object. It turned out that transient attribute works both in entity object and view object. I did it in the VO and it solves my problem.
I spent hours of time before posting that question, trying two different ways but neither worked. Your one sentence saved me a lot of time. I do appreciate you help very much!
Truly,
Newman

Yet another Itunes won't open, but shows in TAsk Manager

Yesterday I was loading some new music into itunes (6.0.1 I believe), when the application froze. I ended task on it and tried to restart. I got busy and forgot that I opened it, but when things slowed down I noticed that the GUI was not in my taskbar. My computer was REALLY slow, so I check Task Manager and it saw Itunes listed, taking 40meg of memory and 99% of the CPU. I could do nothing to get it to work. THERE IS NO ERROR MESSAGE DISPLAYED! I get the agreement screen, and a quick hourglass, but then nothing except a very slow system.
Steps taken so far:
- Removed Itunes and quicktime using recommended method from apple.com. This invloved deleting temp files, itunes and quicktime folders, etc.
-Reinstalled both quicktime and itunes 7.0.1.
-Searched for malware with AVG spyware remover.
-Scraped registry after YAU(yet another uninstall)
-REmoved music folder of the album i was loading.
I am running Win2003 Server with Network Associates Virus Scan Enterprise edition. I do have admin rights on my local machine, even though it is a work machine.
Please, any help would be appreciated. This is really swinging the love-hate Apple relationship back to hate.
Not really, but I am sad.
hp Other OS 2003 Server

I solved this myself. Very strange...but the CD I was trying to burn the itunes first crashed was still in the CD drive. So I guess it kept trying to read it...and locked up.

Slow DSL (Yet another one....)

I have been in contact with Verizon (via off shore support on their 'tech support line') over the past few months and I have YET to get this issue resolved. Since mid-summer 2010 I have been getting 1.6 meg or so speeds on my 3meg DSL line. Prior to that period I was getting 2.5 meg +. I have called in numerous times and I keep getting told they will perform a line test.... Well, the line is FINE it's my download speed that's hosed. My upload is the correct speed of 728 but for some reason my download speed has been slashed from 2.5 to ~1.5.
Verizon even sent me a new modem as my old westtel was from 2001 and it had no better, (perhaps even slightly slower!!!), speed results on JUST the download side.
Other Verizon DSL users suggest that there is some sort of bandwidth throttling or "error correcting" processes that can cause this sort of thing. I live right around 6,000ft or so from the switching station so I'm WELL within range to get the full benefit from my speed. No lines have changed inside the house in years, yet there is a decrease in speed none the less. I have tried various speed test sites, various combinations of network hardware between the PC and the router and nothing helps.
To make matters worse I called in last week and spoke to another off shore "tech" (script reader more like it), and after cutting him off from trying to walk me through a ton of useless steps that I've gone through about 4 dozen times already and telling him NOT to send out yet ANOTHER modem, had this gentleman tell me that he needed to work with the local dispatch center but it was closed. He arranged to call back the next day between 5 and 7 PM EST with them on the phone to further trouble shoot and get the problem solved. Fine. However, next day, I didn't receive a call back until almost 8:45PM .... AND he started the call off by asking, "So is your problem resolved?" ...... I promptly, and with as much patience as I could muster, told him, "Um, not unless you have done something to FIX it in the time since I last spoke to you..." ... To which he responded by starting the ENTIRE trouble shooting process over again and wanting to run a LINE TEST (which would have raised the count on JUST this one ticket to like 5 or 6!). I cut him off and told him we'd already DONE all that and he was SUPPOSED to call me back at 5:00 not 8:00 with someone from the dispatch so we could sort the problem out! He then told me the dispatch was closed and he'd have to call me back the next day between 3:00 and 5:00 PM EST with a supervisor tech on the line to help diagnose the issue.... That was last Friday... A week later and I still haven't heard from Verizon support.... So first time he was 3hours and 45 minutes late, the second time he was over a WEEK late!
At this point I'm fed up, yet I'm hoping that by posting this here someone MAY be able to help me and FINALLY restore my 3Meg DSL to it's former speed.

I have a LinkSys WRT 310N router between my internal network and the router or I'd pull you the transponder data. As for the other info you asked for: It's a Westel modem, and it's Windows 7 x64... Though every system in my home has the same speed results regardless of OS. Even if I remove the router and connect using the built in PPPoE connection in Windows I get the same speeds, so it's not OS or router related. The modem is a new modem, my old Westtel Wirespeed gave exactly the same results as the brand new westtel modem, so it's not the modem either unless BOTH are bad.
****EDIT****
I found a transponder log I'd taken when I first got the new westtel setup and posted on another forum:
Transceiver Revision: 3.3.6.10.0.1
Vendor ID Code: 4D54
Line Mode: ADSL_2plus
Data Path: Interleaved
DSL Speed: 2112 down and 860 Up
Margin (dB): 12.0 and 10.3
Line Attenuation (dB): 33.1 and 15.0
Transmit Power (dBm): 17.9 and 12.2

Yet another dead mic with Win7 64-bit upgrd - Portege M700

Title says it all. Mics used to work fine on this machine under Windows XP. Under Win7, except as I note below, the mic has inaudibly low volume with any Control Panel Sound settings. I've spent huge amounts of time trying to solve this. After seeing all the similar posts (with no solutions, it seems) from users of many different Toshiba laptops, I'm about to start spreading the meme across the Internet that Toshiba laptops can't use mics.
I started by upgrading to Win7 then adding just the 64-bit drivers I need from Toshiba's support site. No joy. Then I started from a clean Win7 upgrade (64-bit Home) using Toshiba's upgrade script. Nope. Installed latest generic drivers from Realtek. Hmm .. some progress, maybe: now with some Sound settings I can get slightly more volume but the mic input is drowned out by white noise-ish hissing. All right, disable any other sound sources I can adjust: disable Chicony webcam driver from Device Manager. Hmm, now mike volume can get fairly high but the hissing still drowns it out.
Toshiba: At some level, this is a problem between Microsoft and Realtek, I know. But you can help us. MS changed the audio model significantly since Win XP, including (god knows why!) giving up the little audio mixer app that used to let you adjust levels for different sound sources. And Realtek's generic driver doesn't provide one either. So just give us a way to adjust levels for different audio inputs! Maybe I haven't Googled sufficiently and some hacker out there has one, but I kinda doubt it ... if it requires driver-level access as I suspect, Microsoft's new DRM-motivated hammerlock limiting us to signed drivers prevents us from fixing this ourselves. (It also means we can't access our ext3 partitions without extreme measures, but that's another rant.) So CAN SOME TOSHIBA ENGINEER PLEASE LET MANAGEMENT KNOW THEY'RE ABOUT TO DESTROY THEIR LAPTOP FRANCHISE OVER AUDIO ISSUES? Just cut, paste, and forward a couple dozen of these threads. Sure, it's a career risk but (wo)man up to it! Audio really matters to laptop buyers nowadays ... without Skype, I'll have do carry Yet Another Device when I'm traveling. Heck, I've personally bought at least 6 Toshiba laptops over the years and I'm starting to shop for a replacement. Anything but Toshiba, I'm sorry to say :-(
Oh, in case somebody has an idea of something else I can try, the specific model is PPM70U-1KC01DB

Title says it all. Mics used to work fine on this machine under Windows XP. Under Win7, except as I note below, the mic has inaudibly low volume with any Control Panel Sound settings. I've spent huge amounts of time trying to solve this. After seeing all the similar posts (with no solutions, it seems) from users of many different Toshiba laptops, I'm about to start spreading the meme across the Internet that Toshiba laptops can't use mics.
I started by upgrading to Win7 then adding just the 64-bit drivers I need from Toshiba's support site. No joy. Then I started from a clean Win7 upgrade (64-bit Home) using Toshiba's upgrade script. Nope. Installed latest generic drivers from Realtek. Hmm .. some progress, maybe: now with some Sound settings I can get slightly more volume but the mic input is drowned out by white noise-ish hissing. All right, disable any other sound sources I can adjust: disable Chicony webcam driver from Device Manager. Hmm, now mike volume can get fairly high but the hissing still drowns it out.
Toshiba: At some level, this is a problem between Microsoft and Realtek, I know. But you can help us. MS changed the audio model significantly since Win XP, including (god knows why!) giving up the little audio mixer app that used to let you adjust levels for different sound sources. And Realtek's generic driver doesn't provide one either. So just give us a way to adjust levels for different audio inputs! Maybe I haven't Googled sufficiently and some hacker out there has one, but I kinda doubt it ... if it requires driver-level access as I suspect, Microsoft's new DRM-motivated hammerlock limiting us to signed drivers prevents us from fixing this ourselves. (It also means we can't access our ext3 partitions without extreme measures, but that's another rant.) So CAN SOME TOSHIBA ENGINEER PLEASE LET MANAGEMENT KNOW THEY'RE ABOUT TO DESTROY THEIR LAPTOP FRANCHISE OVER AUDIO ISSUES? Just cut, paste, and forward a couple dozen of these threads. Sure, it's a career risk but (wo)man up to it! Audio really matters to laptop buyers nowadays ... without Skype, I'll have do carry Yet Another Device when I'm traveling. Heck, I've personally bought at least 6 Toshiba laptops over the years and I'm starting to shop for a replacement. Anything but Toshiba, I'm sorry to say :-(
Oh, in case somebody has an idea of something else I can try, the specific model is PPM70U-1KC01DB

After having yet another problem with my MacBook Pro and having to wipe the drive, I am now unable to sync my iPhones etc without erasing all the music on them. Is there a way around this? I have no other library!

After having yet another problem with my MacBook Pro and having to wipe the drive, I am now unable to sync my iPhones etc without erasing all the music on them. Is there a way around this? I have no other library!
iTunes is a mess! It couldn't find it's own libraries and I was forced to create a new one. Now I don't know where my music is or if any's missing.

columbus new boy wrote:
How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
It's not that simple. For example, I've 3500 songs on my MacBook but don't want them all on my phone, so I have to manually select each song again???
There has to be a solution.
Why not simply make a playlist with the songs you want on the iPhone?
and maintain a current backup of your computer.

Is this yet another problem with 7.5 or is it just me . . .

Upgrade seemed to be fine, at first . . . now I keep getting distortion on songs. It seems to be quite random and just because a song has been distorted when I've listened to it once doesn't mean it will be when I listen to it again! It's driving me insane. Is this yet another bug or have I done something wrong (apart from upgrading to 7.5).

Hi Emlou,
If you have a Windows based operating system such as XP -
It seems to me that you are suffering what I am having the same problem with - the program takes up to much of your computer's processing usage. If you go into your task manager and watch performance as ITunes runs - you will see how much of the total computer usage it is taking at any given moment - that's why your songs are distorted, slowing, garbled, etc - the usage on mine spikes from 11% - 93% AT ANY GIVEN MINUTE! I have no idea why, but I have found that by going to your "Control Panel" and clicking on Quicktime you can adjust audio output to help. Click the audio tab, click Safe Mode Wavout only (checkbox) / Then adjust the "Rate" to 96kHz / Then adjust the "Size" to 16 bit. Close that and shut down and restart Itunes - it might help a little for you.
Maybe someone out there can help us find out why we are suffering with all the CPU usage trouble and how to adjust that spiking.
Thanks!
Paul

Yet another No Service iPhone 4, second hand

Hi all,
Apologies for yet another topic about the No Service issue on the iPhone 4. I bought a secondhand iPhone 4 16GB 2 days ago after having a 3GS 32GB for 18 months with no problems. iPhone 4 was just over a week old when I bought it (warranty date shows when it was first activated), on the O2 UK network like my old one.
All was fine for 2 days, was receiving and making calls and texts etc with no problems. But since late afternoon yesterday the phone has mostly said No Service. It occasionally goes onto O2-UK but with no bars of signal so calls and texts still fail immediately.
I've tried all of the tips I can find online to resolve this, airplane mode on/off, reset network settings, restore from backup, restore as new phone, hard resets. But nothing's working.
I can take out my SIM and put it into my 3GS, in the same location, and get 5 bars of signal, all my texts come through. Then put SIM back into iPhone 4 and straight away, No Service.
I've made a Genius bar appointment for tomorrow afternoon, but I'm wondering what happens regarding the fact that I'm not the person who bought the phone in the first place? Will this be an issue?
Thank you in advance for any advice about this, was so looking forward to having this phone and now, bleh!

I spoke to o2, they checked my SIM is activated and said they don't need a record of my IMEI number. Still saying No Service so will have to see what the "Genius" says tomorrow!

Yet another Mac Book Pro (A1211/2.33 GHz) freeze problem

Hi everyone,
I have yet another freeze mystery, if people fancy having a crack at it.
I had this notebook for about 4 and a half years and it served me well until 2 months ago. It is a 15' MBP from December 2008 (A1211) with a 2.33GHz Core 2 Duo and 2GB of RAM.
Now I constantly get lags or freezes while I am using it.It manifests itself via the beachball and a frozen screen. First, I thought it was the hard drive but I replaced it with a tested new one and I still get the same behaviour. The reason I thought it was the HD is that it seems to freeze often when there was a lot of access to HD or memory. For example, firefox would cause a freeze quite often when it was trying to access the cache or history. I get the same behaviour when trying indexing my music for the genius feature. Often when I close applications, it will halt the system for about 2 minutes.
I think the number of lags also correlates with temperature. I am pretty sure that the notebook's heat diffusion properties has deteriorated strongly over the past year as it seems to be using the fans a lot more extensively. The heatsink seems to get really hot these days as well. So my next step would be checking the thermal paste on the heat sink. Before I am going to do that, I want to consider any remaining options as dismantling the laptop up to the heatsink is a bit of a pain.
My gut feeling would be that it has to do either with the memory or maybe some 'bridge' that transfers the data between HD, GPU, CPU and memory. I am aware that bridge is the wrong word and I am simplifying the architecture of the mainboard too much, but I am sure you get what I mean. The data rate between some of those is inhibited.
The reason why I am saying some is that often the system seems overwhelmed by the amount of commands, just sits there and then resumes executing all of them as it had taken a break. This can be easily seen when streaming video in a web browser. I often get the beach ball and my whole screen freezes, but the movie, or at least the sound, keeps running in the background. After a while it usually resumes and shows the movie at the current playing position. Sometimes it doesn't recover, not even after 30 minutes and I have to switch it off.
I hope I provided enough information for you guys to have a think about this.
Any help in this matter would be gratefully appreciated.

Before re-installing the operating system, which might also work, I found this article helpful:
http://macs.about.com/od/usingyourmac/qt/Fix-Spod-How-To-Fix-A-Spinning-Pinwheel -Of-Death.htm
I've followed the directions since they seem to make sense and am waiting for the next Pinwheel of Death. They seem to be saying the same thing you are Chris, but ascribe the problem to 'permissions' which are fixable (gasp) via the OS disc utility.

HT204368 After I updated my iphone 4 to ios 6.1.3 I can no longer connect to my bluetooth plantronics model M25. I tried reset all settings after turning on and off also submitted diagnostic. Do I have to buy yet another bluetooth set?

After I updated my iphone 4 to ios 6.1.3 I can no longer connect to my bluetooth, plantronics model M25. I tried reset all settings after turning on and off also submitted diagnostic. Do I have to buy yet another bluetooth set?

Thank you wjsten for your soon reply. Unfortunately on these days I'm in a country that Apple don't have any retail store here and for sake of time I prefer to fix it myself to DHL it to the nearest country to use its warranty. Do you have any idea how can I fix it? Do you think it's a software issue?

After getting an update from 10.6.8 many of my programs were no longer able to open. How can I undo the update or solve this problem another way?

After getting an update from 10.6.8 many of my programs were no longer able to open. How can I undo the update or solve this problem another way?

Do you have a bootable clone from prior to the update? If so, roll back with that.
Are your apps that won't open PPC and do they need Rosetta? Do you need to activate Rosetta?
Have you considered reinstalling 10.6 from your install disc and then coming forward with the 10.6.8 Combo Updater, then doing software update and not including whatever it was you installed that caused this propblem?
By the way - what update was it that caused this problem?

Yet another grey folder thread, help!

Sorry for yet another grey folder thread, but here goes:
Today, earlier, installed Firefox update, along with some addon updates for that program. Quit Firefox and attempt to relaunch, relaunch fails. Reset computer, thinking that will do the trick, I now have grey folder with question mark.
Resolve attempts: reset pram = fail; apple care cd = will not launch/fail; disk utility from original install disks = fail; cannot get repair of disk or permissions to work, continually get error about "failing on exit"; safe mode launch = fail
So, I've done everything, and I've come to conclusion that I am f***, and my HDD is fried (but I hope I am wrong).
So, dear gurus, my question(s)
A) Is my HDD salvageable at all? is there some trick to getting the AppleCare cd to work? Anything?!?!
if not, then B) How can I recover my documents/music/pictures? Long story short, there are several things on there that never had a chance to make my back up schedule, and I desperately want to keep them. Any way to make/copy a disk image to save the docs/imgs, or Firewire them to an external hdd? Do I need to consider a professional HDD rescue?

Looks like a mechanical failure, and Apple won't cover the replacement due to a drop it sustained a year or two ago (the power cable was in, and it fell on the connection point, denting that in, Apple states there is a critical board their and that it would be $950 Tier 3 repair which I can't afford). So I'm going to try a Firewire Migration and a few other things and see if that works. If not, oh well. Thanks everyone for the ideas!

Double up of my document folder If I click on my Documents in finder it then opens another selection of folders including yet another documents folder which if this one is clicked on the folder is repeated yet again this does not appear to be correct help

I believe I have a problem when opening up my documents in finder. where upon I can view all my folders but with yet another Documents folder within this group, if I then click on this second Documents folder yet again a repeat of the do'cs folder appears. I have tried to merge the Documents folders into one but after a morning and a few hours later having completed the merge when I reopened the folders the problem was still there. Help.
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Reset the PRAM
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