I am writing this from Vellore, on my father’s HP laptop (which unfortunately runs M$ Windows) connected to the net with a reliance PCMCIA data card, ZTE 315.
No, I am not using M$ Windows to connect to the net. I installed Debian Etch on a free partition and followed the procedure described here and […]
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Reliance ZTE 315 Datacard on GNU/Linux
June 6th, 2007 · 1 Comment
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Caching DNS Proxy server
December 21st, 2006 · No Comments
It’s taking too long to resolve a name with the BSNL DNS server; so I have just now installed `pdnsd’, a caching dns proxy. Let’s see if there is any improvement.
Here is an LG article about pdnsd
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mii-diag on kernel 2.2
December 13th, 2006 · No Comments
Use
mii-diag to get/set link speed of your ethernet interface - this works with old kernels (2.2.17 in my case; mii-tool was not available)
There is no Makefile supplied; so compile in this way:
gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O mii-diag.c -DLIBMII libmii.c -o mii-diag
Upgrading the two ethernet cards on my server (running Debian,kernel 2.2.17) left one of them […]
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Netfilter fun
January 12th, 2006 · No Comments
Phrack has a nice article on some simple netfilter hacks - read it
here. Tried out a few of
them on my Linksys box!
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Configuration Hell
December 18th, 2005 · No Comments
The last few days were spent trying to get a small wireless LAN up and running under Linux. I purchased a Netgear WG311 under the assumption that it used the `Atheros’ chipset which was well supported; but guess what, the WG311 Version 2 uses a TI chip called the ACX111 support for which is […]
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Wireless LAN up and running
October 27th, 2005 · No Comments
Got my first wireless LAN up and running yesterday - thanks to the magic of
ndiswrapper which makes it
possible to use the Windows driver with Linux. My 802.11 card was a DAX-905 PCI
which was not mentioned anywhere on the net as supporting Linux, but an `lspci’
revealed that the chipset belonged to `Marvell Technologies’ and the […]
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Quick-and-dirty Live CD
September 28th, 2005 · No Comments
The Syslinux package helps you create bootable Linux CD’s. I did a few experiments with it - here are some notes.
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BSNL DataOne Internet on Linux
July 30th, 2005 · 3 Comments
BSNL DataOne(Broadband) Internet on GNU/Linux
The BSNL guys came and installed a Huawei SmartAX MT880 ADSL router
today. As my place is about 4 KM away from the telephone exchange,
I will not be getting the full 256Kbps promised by the telecom
department (it seems ADSL has a distance limit of about 3.5Km for
good quality).
The telecom department still seems […]
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