Well, WordPress was updated easily, but i had problems with Gallery2.

I need a multisite deployment of Gallery2. Although it is supported from the installer, some important steps are missing.

In order multisite Gallery2 to work, you will need to add some symlinks to every deployment of the Gallery2:

• lib -> /usr/share/gallery2/lib/

The directory is providing some scripts amongst all, so without it you will lack some functionality, like enabling themes will not work.

• modules -> /usr/share/gallery2/modules
• themes -> /usr/share/gallery2/themes

The themes directory is providing CSS file, so without this your gallery will look “flat”.

Also, you can try to use “php_admin_flag safe_mode Off” in the Apache’s VirtualHost description, in the case PHP safe mode is turned on globally.

And yes, beware: do not ever mix web directory and data directory: the content of web directory is erased during install.

# date
Sat Jul 11 10:34:07 EEST 2009
# dpkg -l |egrep gallery2
ii gallery2 2.3-1 web-based photo album written in PHP


The fresh issue: after fresh install (Gallery… deb), no one is able to login. The solution is explained here – you should set $gallery->setConfig('baseUri', ''); in ‘config.php’.

Again, having both left hands, i was unable to start multisite version of Gallery2, using install scripts. What i had to change was:

1. remove ‘lib/’
2. symlink ‘lib/’ , ‘modules/’ , ‘themes/’ from ‘/usr/share/gallery2′ to site root
3. symlink or copy and alter ‘images/’ from ‘/usr/share/gallery2′ to site root

First of all, firmware is in non-free branch, so /etc/apt/sources.list must contain “non-free” repository and:
install firmware-bnx2 package:

apt-get install firmware-bnx2

;

double check the files in /lib/firmware/;

Some people report it’s still impossible to load firmware from initrd, so you may wish to remove bnx2 line from ‘/etc/initramfs-tools/modules’;

“firmware-bnx2″ already has initrd update scripts, but you may want to re-check the created image.
You can extract the initrd image using

gzip -dc /boot/initrd.img-[]kernel version-arch] | cpio -id

Cross your fingers;
telinit 6;
It just worked for me:

# uname -a
Linux … 2.6.26-2-amd64 #1 SMP … x86_64 GNU/Linux

Still got no ping? Login to console and rmmod bnx2 && modprobe bnx2

[] printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(656)
Unable to print file to - client-error-bad-request


And the printing is stopped, of course.

The solution is simple:

LANG=en_US.UTF-8 /etc/init.d/samba restart

In short:
/var/log/cups/error_log shows a lot of

E [] Unsupported character set "iso-8859-1"!

CUPS requires UTF-8.
In the case of default login in Debian, the console IS in UTF-8, but is not if you have customized it and use `su` for administrative tasks.

C’ia.

In order to run in Linux, you need:

1. PCMCIA bus modules – pcmcia, pcmci_core and yenta_socket in my case;
2. prism54 module to talk to the card;
3. firmware_class module to load the firmware
4. actual firmware
5. wireles-tools package to manage link

The WG511 uses isl3890 module, which was available here, but due to copyright restrictions, it’s not there any more. The backup is prism54.org firmware page or my local backup. Netgear WG511 uses 1.0.4.3.arm firmware. Just be sure to place it into ‘/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware’ in Debian and symlink or rename it to ‘isl3890′.

What you need more, is to edit ‘/etc/network/interfaces’ file and add some lines about the WiFi card:

My WiFi card is eth2, as eth0 goes for embedded wired network and eth1 is for IEEE1384/FireWire link:
…
allow-hotplug eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp
wireless-essid your_APs_ssid_here
wireless-mode managed
wireless-key1 ActualKeyMustBeEnteredHere
wireless-defaultkey 1

Voila. Plug-in the card, and run /sbin/iwconfig.

$ /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

eth2 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:”your_APs_ssid_here”
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.467 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power=31 dBm Sensitivity=20/200
Retry min limit:8 RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Link Quality:19/0 Signal level:-50 dBm Noise level:-40 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

The problem is when you plug-in the WiFi card and your wired network stays connected. In this case you must configure routing.
Or you can disable wired link with ‘sudo ifdown eth0′.