hardware

I recently inherited an old Dell Latitude D600 laptop, but the wireless wasn't working on it. After some investigation, I learned that it somehow didn't have a wireless card! Digging around on eBay, I found a Dell Wireless 1370 Mini PCI card for my D600. After installing it, I wanted to make Ubuntu work with it, and I came face-to-face with the mysterious b43-fwcutter.

A few days ago our portable DVD player (a Panasonic DVD-LS 82) began producing an "Error H03" message to the screen whenever we gave it a known working DVD. Normally, a malfunction like this is a chance for me to dip into the savings for an upgrade, but the error had a hardware fix that I wanted to try out.