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 something like this:
# dpkg-deb -x boxee-0.9.22.13692.x86_64.modfied.deb boxee
# dpkg-deb –control boxee-0.9.22.13692.x86_64.modfied.deb boxee/DEBIAN

4. Correct the control file dependency:
# vi boxee/DEBIAN/control

Find "libxmlrpc-c3" in this file and add -0 (zero) to the end of it. It should look like this "libxmlrpc-c3-0" without quotes. Save and close.

5. Now repackage the changes into a new deb file
# dpkg -b boxee boxee-new.deb

When it is done just click new file "boxee-new.deb" and it will open in Ubuntu Software Centre. Click install.

NOTE: You will likely get a "bad quality warning" for package, you may ignore and install.

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