kde-4.1.96 for slackware-current
again, for those who are on slackware-current, and are taking part of the kde4 packages in /testing. i've posted the latest build of kde-4.2rc1 (4.1.96)
these pacakges are on cardinal (http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/kde4-packages/)
you should upgradepkg to the latest version'ed pacakges in the deps/ directory as well.
enjoy !
kde-4.1.87 for slackware-current
up on http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/kde/ you'll find the 4.1.87 packages, and you'll need to also pick up the deps/soprano-2.1.64 package I have there.
enjoy
kde-4.1.85 and soon kde-4.1.87 for slackware-current/testing
hosted on http://cardinal.lizella.net/~vbatts/ i've put the latest build of kde-4.1.85 for slackware (if you on -current, have un-installed kde-3.5.10 and have installed kde4 from /testing).
just download the deps and the 4.1.85 directory, then
upgradepkg --install-new */*.tgz
i had done this version a little bit ago and had forgotten to blog it, i also realize that 4.1.87 came out on Jan 01, i will publish it shortly.
broadcom on slackware-12.1
so i've heard from numerous people complain about the difficulty of broadcom wireless cards on linux, and i agree, it was not anything straigtforward.
After finding b43 info on linuxwireless.org i took there pasted info on
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 01)
and pasted it to a simple shell script
wget http://bu3sch.de/b43/fwcutter/b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
tar xjf b43-fwcutter-011.tar.bz2
cd b43-fwcutter-011
make
cd ..
export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"
wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
tar xjf broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0.tar.bz2
cd broadcom-wl-4.80.53.0/kmod
sudo ../../b43-fwcutter-011/b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" wl_apsta.o
while that was going on, i built the latestwicd in the SlackBuilds.org 12.1 repo, you can go here
after adding /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd to rc.local to start on boot, i rebooted, and magically networks are discoverd and availble to connect to !
i'm only on a WEP network right now, so maybe i'll have some issues when i need wpa, but for now, we're gravy.
vb