Andy's Page of Fixes

I noticed I have a list of short one liners in my notebooks on fixes for different issues. So I thought I would post them here in case anyone has use for them. Unformatted for now, I'll clean it up later.

Linux on a lenovo laptop, softblocking the wireless card

Problem: Booting up a lenovo laptop and the wireless is disabled by default, the wifi light isn't on (the card has been soft blocked). If you enable the card it may come on, but not necessarily depending on the model. This fix has worked on a couple of Lenovo models.

echo 'options acer_wmi wireless=1' | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/acer_wmi.conf

then reboot.

Blue Host, can't delete folders on my account

Problem: If you do any kind of automated install on your blue host account, eg: install wordpress or drupal, and you need to delete them, sometimes you find folders which you can't remove. There's an easy fix. Shell in to your account and change the permissions.

chmod -R 777 foldername

Ubuntu Lucid, Broadcom card doesnt work on HP Mini 1000

Wifi worked fine, but broke on update.

sudo apt-get --reinstall install bcmwl-kernel-source

then reboot

Fixing wifi on HP Mini 1000 running Crunchbang

Wifi is very unstable out of the box, but there's an easy fix thanks to Technically Works. Add the following code to /etc/modprobe.d/b43.conf and reboot.

options b43 pio=1 qos=0

Add a webpage in a Tab in Thunderbird

I have a number of different pages I check each day while working, for case queues, bug tracking and email. So it's handy to add them all to Thunderbird.

From the menu in Thunderbird, choose "Tools" and in the pop up window, add the following (replacing the URL with your page>

Components.classes['@mozilla.org/appshell/window-mediator;1'].getService(Components.interfaces.nsIWindowMediator).getMostRecentWindow("mail:3pane").document.getElementById("tabmail").openTab("contentTab", {contentPage: "https://www.google.com/reader/"});