FC6 x86_64 Speedtouch 330 Wanadoo/Orange

December 31, 2006
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Speedtouch driver now part of Fedora Core 6 (FC6).
http://www.linux-usb.org/SpeedTouch/fedora/index.html
awk ‘/4061/ { print $5 }’ /proc/bus/usb/devices
http://www.speedtouch.com/download/drivers/USB/SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip
unzip SpeedTouch330_firmware_3012.zip &&chmod +x firmware-extractor &&./firmware-extractor ZZZL_3.012
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P4M800Pro-M v2 Fedora Core 6

December 31, 2006
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Bought from WWW.PC-RACK.COM via e-bay. Sweet deal. Well put together machine (80Gb PATA HD, 512Mb of DDR2 DRAM).
Problem areas :

Read that choice of Apperture size (64Mb) is important.
Getting correct screen resolution (using only LCD display for set-up).

Disappearing network interface:

Software Shutdown has no effect.
Front panel power-off (held down until power-down) has [...]

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Flash for Firefox on x86_64

December 31, 2006
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Best solution : nspluginwrapper
Gnash looks promising, but has problems :

Lack of aliased fonts
Memory leaks cause small Flash panels to take over machine after a couple of dormant hours
No embedded video for video.google.com or youtube.com

http://gwenole.beauchesne.info/en/projects/nspluginwrapper/help#release_notes-rw-r–r– 1 platformedia users 53132 Dec 31 19:39 nspluginwrapper-0.9.91.2-1.x86_64.rpm-rw-r–r– 1 platformedia users 50362 Dec 31 19:39 nspluginwrapper-i386-0.9.91.2-1.x86_64.rpm
# rpm [...]

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