georgewu - George Wu

One nifty trick with MSI files is extracting the contents out of them in Windows without installing.

Run cmd
msiexec /a c:\some-installer.msi /qb TARGETDIR=c:\some-installer-contents

For example, I could use this to extract ORCA from its MSI file. Here's a portable version of ORCA 3 1.4000.1830. I use this on 64-bit 2008 Server, but it should work on Vista as well.
orca-portable.rar

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b43 injection/monitoring on linux 2.6.28-rc3

Sunday, November 9, 2008 12:57:30 AM

b43, linux, aircrack-ng, wireless

Starting from 2.6.28-rc*, the kernel developers decided to move off wireless extensions and begin using nl80211+cfg80211 as a replacement. Thus the patches for the b43 driver at Aircrack-ng's patches site no longer apply cleanly. Here's some updated patches for 2.6.28-rc3 that I've compiled tested, but haven't actually played with yet.
mac80211_2.6.28-rc3_frag.patch
b43-injection-2.6.28-rc3.patch

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fglrx 8.54.3 on Gentoo

Saturday, October 18, 2008 8:13:41 AM

ati, amd, xorg, gentoo

If you've been following the news on AMD's graphics driver for October, you'll know that there are apparently two drivers floating about. One that's being distributed via AMD's official driver site (8.54.2) and the other in ~~Ubuntu's multiverse repository~~ Ubuntu's restricted repository (8.54.3). If you didn't know, the one in Ubuntu's repository is newer in the sense that it has support for Xorg 7.4 and the 2.6.27 kernel. So I went ahead and took the liberty of writing up a script that will fetch, compile, and install it all in one shot.
As root, execute this script
~~fglrx-8.54.3.sh~~[/ATTACH] I've tested this on my 32bit system, but don't have a 64bit system to test on. It at least works on X server 1.4.99.905 (1.5.0 RC 5) and kernel 2.6.25.11. Note that if you had any custom settings, this script may overwrite them. If the driver doesn't work, in the worst case scenario, you can always just emerge ati-drivers and go back to the driver in Gentoo's repository. UPDATE: Ubuntu changed their link, script updated: fglrx-8.54.3-r1.sh

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VMware Workstation 6.5 on Gentoo

Thursday, October 16, 2008 6:38:25 AM

vmware, gentoo

Currently there is no VMware Workstation 6.5 support in Gentoo, since the ebuild is still being worked on. If you're interested in a manual install, however, you can follow these steps.
Note: This depends on any installation of VMware Workstation (for example 6.0.5.109488) to be installed prior.
WARNING: This will remove your existing VMware Workstation installation as part of the upgrade process! Virtual machines will remain.

Download VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.i386.bundle or VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.x86_64.bundle
As root, execute "sh bundle-that-you-downloaded.bundle -s prefix /opt/vmware/workstation -s libdir /opt/vmware/workstation/lib -s mandir /opt/vmware/workstation/man -s docdir /opt/vmware/workstation/doc -s sbindir /opt/vmware/workstation/sbin -s datadir /opt/vmware/workstation/share -s includedir /opt/vmware/workstation/include -s sysconfdir /etc/vmware -s initdir /etc/vmware/init.d -s initscriptdir /etc/vmware/init.d --console"
Execute VMware from Applications->System Tools->VMWare Workstation. Upon the initial run, it will ask for your root password so it can compile and place the required kernel modules.
Use your virtual machines as before. Enjoy!

Also, if you prefer a pretty GTK-based GUI over the console, you can drop --console from step 2. Now you can proceed as usual, /etc/init.d/vmware works as expected (from a previous install) and now VMware Workstation 6.5 as well!

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