Category: Linux

Our friends at openwrt released the Whiterussian RC5 http://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=4977 A lot of bugfixes….. Time to do a backup of my WRT54GS and upgrade

Time to upgrade to FC5… First we upgrade our system to the latest FC4 updates: yum upgrade Upgrade the fedora release: rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/5/i386/os/Fedora/RPMS/fedora-release-5-5.noarch.rpm Upgrade the yum: yum upgrade yum And now time for the full system upgrade: yum upgrade Wait……….do a reboot and you are up and running.

Fedora core 5 released today. bofh waits for it upgrade, i will give it a couple of days for the mirrors to sync and then i will upgrade through yum

One common problem with the default settings of bash or the defaults settings of your bash_profile ~/.bashrc is the bash_history. When you logout from your shell all the commands you entered there are writteen to the bash_history. Hmmm what happens when you logout from 2 or more shells ? Yes the last history list is…

My main problem all the time is that i have small capacities on hard disks (8GB,10GB) and so on. I don’t want to throw them away but i don’t want also to leave them lying around. This time i did an exception: i bought a big one, a Western Digital WDC WD2000JB (200GB) plus this…

I am a fun of reiserfs. Period. The only filesystem i had without reiserfs was on my laptop. 20GB of data on ext3. I wanted to converted to reiserfs without doing a tar create a new filesystem on the disk and untar the data. Since i had a working backup set, i give a try…

Debian team released the new installer for the etch. It appers that the next time (in about 1-2 years 🙂 that you will install Debian you will have a graphical version of the installer. For the rest of us, an apt-get dist-upgrade will be sufficient 🙂 Also they dropped support for installations using 2.6 kernel…

I don’t know what is going on on Digium but i must admit i cannot follow their releases anymore Have a look on the announcements Asterisk 1.2.0-beta1 29 Aug 2005 Asterisk 1.2.0-beta2 1 Nov 2005 Asterisk 1.2.0-rc1 9 Nov 2005 Asterisk 1.2.0-rc2 12 Nov 2005 It appears that we will have a stable 1.2.0 till…

First mail in my inbox today…. The release of Asterisk 1.2.0-beta2 A ton of bugfixies. Will i find some time to upgrade my asterisk installation ? As a start i put it as the first item in my TODO list

Hmmm, a kernel release… So ? Just another kernel release ? Should i upgrade ? No, wait for a few days. Everything works ok with 2.6.13 These are the usual questions after a kernel release 🙂 This time since it was a weekend i want to give a try. The ipw2100 make it way to…

I came across with a really nice utility for debian. It is the deborphan. What it does ? It looks for orphaned libraries in your debian system. That is library packages that you no longer use. Give it a try [url]http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/deborphan[/url]

Dag hasn’t provided yet an rpm of the openvpn 2.0 for Fecoda Core 4. Here is one, just builded a couple of minutes ago 🙂 [url][/url]

I am using the Talisman firmware on my WRT54GS for about 2 months. The last 2 days i was having problems with the connection to the internet. I am not sure that it was a problem with my adsl provider but i could connect at all 🙂 On the dmesg i was seeing messages like…

What i hate after upgrading a kernel ? Compile all your modules that there are not part of the main stream kernel. If you use a custom kernel is easy. But if you want to stick for a reason with a prepackaged kernel sometimes is difficult. The debian way = Allways build a package for…

After upgrading to kernel 2.6.12 with software suspend2 the ipw2100-1.1.0 driver stopped compiling. The following patch take care of it. It solves the[b] is_multicast_ether_addr[/b] and [b]create_workqueue[/b] errors. diff -Naur ipw2100-1.1.0/ieee80211.h ipw2100-1.1.0.test/ieee80211.h — ipw2100-1.1.0/ieee80211.h 2005-03-14 18:54:24.000000000 +0200 +++ ipw2100-1.1.0.test/ieee80211.h 2005-06-21 11:48:06.000000000 +0300 @@ -643,10 +643,12 @@ #define MAC_ARG(x) ((u8*)(x))[0],((u8*)(x))[1],((u8*)(x))[2],((u8*)(x))[3],((u8*)(x))[4],((u8*)(x))[5] +#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,6,12) extern inline int…

The machine that holds my blog, holds also everything for my domain 🙂 It was running fedora core 3 and it hasn’t been switched to Debian sarge (yet ?) due to the reason above. After the release of Fedora Core 4 i had 2 options: Download the CDs and use them for the upgrade or…

Finally after 3 years the new debian sarge waits for us in the mirrors. For as that we were using testing upgrading is simple: Change the sources.list to point to sarge instead of testing and do aptitude update && aptitude -f –with-recommends dist-upgrade. I had allready done it when the sarge was frozen last week…

In less than 4 months, 5000 definition where added into clam antivirus. 35000 as of today and counting.

The Register has an article about the decision of Debian release manager Steve Langasek to drop some architectures… Sparc is one of them. [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/14/debian_reduced/[/url] Could somebody please explain me what i i will run on my sparc machines (beside Solaris of course) ? Let’s hope that they will reconsider it again….

Or maybe it is 2.6.11.1, or it is 2.6.11.2 or it is 2.6.11.3 ? Edit: 14/05/2004 I think today they desided that the latest 2.6 kernel is the 2.6.11.3 🙂 I was thinking to upgrade my machines…. NO, I will stay with the 2.6.10. Read why… [url]http://kerneltrap.org/node/4827[/url] Remember the kernel numbering has changed…. The *.x.y…