Found a Broadcom wifi card facing problems after 2.6.31-20-generic-pae kernel upgrade on Ubuntu 10.04 (Dell Inspiron with a i3 processor) Trying to activate the driver via the System -> Administration -> Hardware Drivers -> enable the Broadcom STA proprietary wireless driver route failed with an error in /var/log/jockey.log WARNING: modinfo for module wl failed: ERROR: [...]

To get your OpenManage installation working on a DELL Server installed with Citrix XEN Server, add following IPTABLES rules: INPUT Table -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 5666 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 1311 -j ACCEPT -A INPUT -p tcp -m tcp –dport 5666 -j ACCEPT -A RH-Firewall-1-INPUT -p tcp [...]

Dell OpenManage System Administration (OMSA) tools makes it easy to see server health, storage management, hardware health checks etc on DELL Servers from anywhere. If you’re running RHEL5, CentOS, Scientific Linux, RHEL4+yum, SLES+yum, you can easily install DELL OpenManage System Administration Tool (OMSA) from DELL Official yum repository.  Read this link for more information Dell Hardware [...]

I just tried fixing my Skype on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” (Beta). I could get it configured just fine in seconds without much headache this time. www.pulseaudio.org did not really bug me this time. Here is my skype sound preference on DELL XPS M1210 running on Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope”. I’m using internal Mic which [...]

Yes, I’m now on WiFi for few hours. At last I received my new battery this evening. Here you can see some info on backup that I’m getting and it’s power chart. Thanks to Dell for delivering my order well before the estimated time. But there is an issue, the receipt which I received along [...]

Last pose of my Dell 9 Cell Laptop Battery. Tested before disposal. It gave me pretty good life and almost 4+ hrs backup when it was alive. From past few weeks, it was troubling me. Got to place an order for a new one. New expense when there is a financial crunch in the world.