3G-USB Modem Connection using KNetworkManager on openSUSE

Here is the steps:

  1. Plug the device.
  2. Mount it through Device Notifier Widget.
  3. Eject it (ignore the failure message), You’ll see the KNetworkManager icon changes, from ‘unplugged net-device’ to ‘mobile-phone’ .[0]
  4. Click it, and select Manage Connections / Mobile Broadband, and then fill the necessary configurations.
  5. Click the desired connection through KNetworkManager in the system tray.[1]

Have fun! ;)

[0] This feature is still in the developer discussion wheter which is a good way should be choosen to swicth the device automatically from media-mode to modem-mode (ejecting the device or through usb_modeswitch), especially for incoming openSUSE 11.3 release.

[1] Some users complain about hang on Waiting for authorization, just disconnect and then connect it again (known bug?).

Wireless Connection using KNetworkManager on openSUSE 11.2

This is a simple configuration of how to use KNetworkManager (KDE4) to have Wireless connection on openSUSE 11.2 computer.
In this how-to: no encription (open), and IP Address’s client is obtained from DHCP server.

Have fun! :)

Installing KOHA on openSUSE 11.2

This is only my documentation about how YaST (openSUSE Administrator Settings) can give an easy setup to install a complex-steps software installation.

Have fun! :)

Amarok 2.0 Released!

Amarok 2.0

Amarok developers are proudly announcing Amarok 2.0 (code name: kutie). This music player application for Linux (also available for Mac OS X and Windows platform) gets more improvement in new technologies and design pattern that makes use the miracle of KDE 4. (more…)

Things Left Unpublished

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in this year.

OOo 2.4.1 for openSUSE Users

As mentioned here, the official release note of OpenOffice.Org 2.4.1 is already announced today. And for openSUSE users, you’ll be able to get it by adding STABLE, EXTRAS, and UNSTABLE OpenOffice.Org Repositories to YaST Software Repositories–you can also perform this using Zypper. After that just hint YaST Software Management (from YaST window that already opened previously) and go to Filter section then select Search option, and then type: openoffice. You can see (again) the available update packages are colored by blue. Just easily click your right mouse button in packages list section and select from menu appeared, All in this list > Update if newer version available. To download and install the packages, you can just enter the Accept button then. (more…)

Problem in QStarDict

I recently use QStarDict to translate many english words to Bahasa Indonesia (and vice versa) or want to know more information about those words (I had used Gidic previously). I chose QStarDict because it’s written using Qt4 that will run fine and suitable in my KDE 4.0.3, my desktop environment I’m using right now. It was very useful before i encountered this problem : (more…)