After trying to upgrade gnome on my iBook running gentoo, I found myself waiting a few hours for it to compile everything. And then, when reopening my session, nothing worked anymore (nautilus dying, applets dying, …). As the only other Linux PPC CD I have at home is a really out of date Debian…
01/04/2005 Lire la suite...-
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Making the zd1201 driver work
There’s a new driver in 2.6.12-rc1, for the zd1201 chipset found in some USB wifi sticks. As I have one, I tried it. I had to patch a Makefile to get it to build. The driver works really well, I found only two glitches: monitor mode wouldn’t work. I finally found out why. This is…
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Netapplet hacking
I found a nice applet by Robert Love that lets one handle his network connections conveniently. It has the inconvenient of working only with Suse, and requires a daemon to run. Since a while, I use a little sudo’ed bash script named gnet to make all this switching between eth0 and wlan0 and all these…
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Claws, Wifi and the kernel
Sylpheed-Claws: We finally released, officialy, the 1.9.6 version which is gtk2 ! Yay :-) Comments on the mailing-list are quite encouraging. Wifi & the kernel: After another kernel upgrade, Linux works flawlessly with sleep on my iBook. I needed only two USB-related patches so that the USB subsystem survives sleeps ok: one by Paul Mackerras, that…
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Itunes music store, on Linux
I just tried pyMusique; after having subscribed and wasted 0.99? due to a bug in the saving code (probably due to something in my python setup), I downloaded one song. Got a .m4a file that plays well with mplayer and rhythmbox, and is convertible to mp3. Nice work! Update: Too bad, Apple fixed this. Well…
14/03/2005 Lire la suite...
