Making your Dell D620 into a Boxee
With Ubuntu 11, out of the box most things work, but some important things (like wireless) do not work. To enable wireless on Ubuntu 11: Step 1: Remove the new STA driver. Use synaptic package manager to remove the "bcmwl-kernel-source" and "bcmwl-modaliases" and any other package with "sta" in the package name. # apt-get remove bcmwl-kernel-source Step 2: Stop the bcm43xx from being blacklisted vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf Find the lines: # replaced by b43 and ssb. blacklist bcm43xx And comment out the blacklist: # replaced by b43 and ssb. #blacklist bcm43xx Step 3: Install the firmware for the Broadcom card: # apt-get install firmware-b43-installer # apt-get install b43-fwcutter Step 4: Reboot Getting Boxee to work with Ubuntu 11.04: 1. Download Boxee. 2. Extract the deb file: # dpkg-deb -x boxee-0.9.22.13692.i486.modfied.deb boxee # dpkg-deb –control boxee-0.9.22.13692.i486.modfied.deb boxee/DEBIAN If you are using the 64-bit version, it should be ...