Monthly Archives: September 2010

OpenSuse 11.3 Mobile internet USB dongle problem

Posted by on September 29, 2010 No comments

Has anyone be experiencing problems with USB mobile broadband Dongles on OpenSuse 11.3? Once the device (Huawei E156) is inserted OpenSuse recognises it automatically but after a few minutes it drops the connection and the device is not able to connect again. 

The Network Manager drops the device from the list and then re-inserts it, but for some reason it disables the Mobile Broadband. Removing and re-inserting the device dos not resolve the issue. I used this device very often on OpenSuse 11.2 without any problem. 

Is anyone having a a similar problem? Does anyone have the solution?

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Echofon shamefully drops Firefox for Linux

Posted by on September 6, 2010 4 comments

Echofon has officially announced it is dropping support for Custom build Firefox, so it will no longer work with “minor” platforms. How dare you Echofon!?  This is such short sightedness.

Apparently the previous version (1.9.6.4) of the Echofon plugin to Firefox still works, but I would appreciate suggestions for a different Firefox plugin. I would be happy to ditch Echophon alltogether, it was a good product untill the developers killed it for me.

If you get the error -  Echofon does not support this platform or custom build Firefox. (Can’t get OAuth signer.) / Cc['@naan.net/twitterfox-sign;1'] is undefined (Fx version 3.6.8 / ABI x86-gcc3) – according to the Echofon developers you are using a minor platform, and that includes 64bit build on Mac and Windows..

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