You are right about strange, unless the dvd is encrypted differently to the last one we tried... Wlan I read that I need to dump "wifi radar" so just did that while I was out. The Howto says I need to extract a driver but I am sure I saw a reference to the bcm driver in dmesg so looking there then more reading I guess. Bruce. If you would like to I can bring it around at some stage. *........* Regards John ----- Original Message Follows -----
Here we go this is strange but true, * Eats words and watches dvd's* I went down and ran "apt-get update then installed mplayer.
That is very strange, because I'm still quite sure we did already try mplayer when you were here last! But good to know it's working now.
How's the wireless coming along?
On 8/7/06, jaytee(a)clear.net.nz <jaytee(a)clear.net.nz> wrote:
You are right about strange, unless the dvd is encrypted differently to the last one we tried... Wlan I read that I need to dump "wifi radar" so just did that while I was out. The Howto says I need to extract a driver but I am sure I saw a reference to the bcm driver in dmesg so looking there then more reading I guess. Bruce. If you would like to I can bring it around at some stage. *........* Regards John
The bcm43xx consists of two parts - one is the in kernel driver and the other is the binary firmware you extract from an object file (usually a windows driver). dmesg will have the in-kernel driver giving messages even if no binary firmware is there. I have put instructions on how to set it up at: http://wlug.org.nz/BroadcomWirelessChipset -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand
jaytee(a)clear.net.nz wrote:
You are right about strange, unless the dvd is encrypted differently to the last one we tried...
Apparently so :-) Free giveaway DVD's don't use CSS. I did a little digging and found some documentation; file:///usr/share/doc/libdvdcss2/html/index.html Which suggests that you need to set an environment variable. Try this in a shell; export DVDCSS_RAW_DEVICE=/dev/dvd totem dvd:// And let me know what happens.
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