MANTY

BetaWireLess

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His quick page

I won't post any other stuff here, I'm just blogging at http://blog.manty.net/.

And here is a mirror of my N years old page http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1486/.

So, here is the old stuff...

Atheros AR2425 (AR5007EG)

Pues nada, que ando aquí intentando hacer funcionar esa tarjeta WiFi (168c:001c), que es la que traen los portátiles que regala Banesto y quería comentar las alternativas que hay hoy por hoy para esta tarjeta.

Actualizando esto que había puesto hace tiempo ahí abajo... ahora mismo parece que el driver más estable y con mejor soporte es el nuevo hal que han sacado las gentes de OpenWrt y de dd-wrt aquí al menos mientras el ath5k no va mejorando.

Las opciones son... usar el driver de windows con el ndiswrapper, usar una versión modificada de madwifi (esto solo si usamos Linux de 32 bits para PC), o la mejor opción, no solo porque es la libre, sino porque es la que mejor funciona, al menos para Linux de 64 bits. Sobre esta última opción comentaré algo más adelante, pero antes quería dejaros el link al thread donde se comentan las soluciones en la web de madwifi.

El driver ath5k es el que mejor me ha funcionado para mi Linux de 64 bits, para ello he descargado el compat-wireless-2.6 y he sobreescrito su driver ath5k utilizando el último driver de mickflemm y luego he compilado e instalado el compat wireless utilizando sus instrucciones. El resultado: funciona a las mil maravillas para redes sin encriptación, pero al menos el WPA2 no me ha funcionado. En fin... esto está empezando, pero pinta bien :-)

La FNMT y el software libre...

¿Habeis intentado renovar vuestros certificados de la FNMT con un navegador Firefox? Yo lo he hecho y no he sido capaz, la página me ha dado un error, aquí tenéis los pantallazos de lo que me ha pasado y la solución para conseguir renovar el certificado.

TM6000 Trident DVB experimental driver for Linux 2.6.25

There is people developping a driver for the Trident TM6000 based cards like my Woxter USB TV Total (USB ID: 14aa:0620), in the meantime they are offering an experimental driver from the v4lwiki pages, you can read the warnings before using it on the wiki where they made the experimental driver available. I've been using this driver for some time having quite a good experience with it, that's why I've been making the necesary changes for it to compile on newer versions of the kernels. Here is my latest tarball, made for 2.6.25.

Knoppix terminal server using SMB/CIFS instead of NFS

I have managed to get the Knoppix to boot out of the net and use a SMB/CIFS share insted of NFS, thus you can have a machine without NFS to act as a Knoppix terminal server, even a Windows can do it ;-) I have set up a page about it here.

ACPI-SoftWake patch

I've been having trouble in getting WOL working ever since 2.4.14 pre days, till I found, in the Linux Kernel Mailing List, Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe's kernel-source-2.4.14.ACPI-SoftWake.patch. This had made my WOL work again and I was a happy ACPI+WOL user. That was untill 2.4.22 masive ACPI changes, as Mario's patch didn't work anymore.

Hey, don't be so sad, I have reworked Mario's patch so that it works again, here you have the patch for 2.4.25 and for 2.6.5, hope it helps ;-)

Conceptronic c54c opened/abierta

This card has a connector inside. I'm sorry, but I've written this explaining how to open it just in spanish for now, if there is demand I can try to translate, but it would be better if a native speaker would open the card and then write it himself ;-)

Pues eso, que he abierto la tarjeta esta, que es de lo más barato que tenemos ahora y me he encontrado conque tiene un conector dentro, podeis ver aquí las fotos y una explicación de como abrirla. Espero que la encontreis util. Por cierto, que nunca lo habia comentado por aquí, que la tarjeta está soportada por el madwifi, igual que su hermana pci, y que con ese driver pueden funcionar como APs.

Cheap Wireless at 54 Mbps under Linux? - ¿Wireless barato a 54 Mbps en Linux?

This one goes mainly in Spanish as the prices are for Spain, the important info for the English readers is that the Conceptronic 54Mbps cards seem to carry the atheros chip and thus could work with the madwifi drivers under Linux, and at least here they seem to be quite cheap.

Esto lo mandé a la lista de A Coruña Wireless hace ya un tiempo, pero creo que es bueno que esté por aquí también:

Pues nada, yo como culo inquieto que soy me pasé hoy por optize a ver que novedades tenian en tarjetas wireless, y me quedé acojonado al ver que tenian las conceptronic de 54 megas por 34 y 38 euros más iva respectivamente la pcmcia y la pci, me quedé tan flipado que quise saber que chip llevaban, por eso de si estarían soportadas en linux y tal, así que me bajé los drivers (el mismo para las dos por lo que vi) y se me dio por buscar por N3AB, que es lo que aparecía en el .inf, nada, no apareció nada, pero haciendo un strings de los .sys encuentro esto: C:\STA_24130src_leapobj\sta\ndis\driver\ar5211\NDIS5_Win9x_Free\ar52119x.pdb

Y buscando por ar5211 resulta que es un chip de Atheros, para el cual existe el proyecto madwifi para drivers en Linux, que por lo que he oido soporta modo AP y todo (alguien tiene una atheros con madwifi?).

En fin, que igual son unas tarjetas interesantes para hacerse un AP :-) Alguien se anima?

Además entre otros strings en el driver aparece:
5GHz 54Mbps (802.11a)
5GHz 108Mbps (802.11a Turbo)
2.4GHz 11Mbps (802.11b)
2.4GHz 54Mbps (802.11g)
2.4GHz 108Mbps (802.11g Turbo)

Yo sigo sin saber de que va eso de los 100 Mbps, las USR también dicen ir a 100Mbps, ¿ideas?

Linux is really really STABLE

Well, there is nothing new in me just saying this, but I have to explain why I say this, I have jus finish some moficications on my DSL router and a small program so that I can have my Linux server reset my router when it hangs. Yes, my server wich is at this moment a dual Pentium machine with two P120 overclocked at 133Mhz micros that don't even have a fan on them and wich runs Debian GNU/Linux unstable distribution with some add-ons and a kernel patched with not very well tested patches, is far more stable than the couple of routers I have tested here (3Com and Efficient Networks). This is a good thing for linux but really a bad thing to say about the router guys. Anyway, I'm writing a little text on the mod I did, and this is the program I wrote to control the router.

Linux en el Eumitcom WL11000SA-N

This is a howto in spanish on putting Linux on this machines, so...

Bueno, pues dejo por aquí el linux eumitcom como, un documento escrito por mi en castellano que explica como meter Linux en un AP basado en la placa Eumitcom WL11000SA-N, o sea, los USR 2450, SMC 2652W y AWS 100, mXquinillas realmente curiosas, espero que os sea de ayuda a los que tengais una mXquina de estas todavXa con el firmware original.

Sobre las charlas que di en las III Jornadas sobre Linux

Pues bien, ya he terminado con las charlitas, la verdad, dando las charlas uno se lo pasa bien, aunque prepararlas y los típicos problemas técnicos que suele haber son una lata. En fin, yo salí contento y creo que la gente también, os dejo por aquí links a la documentación que usé en el taller de Debian y en la charla sobre wireless.

GPUL is organicing some conferences // GPUL organiza las III Jornadas sobre Linux

I'll be giving some talks at the event, one on Debian installation and another one introducing wireless. The event is in spanish and the info is also in spanish, so... Para más información pincha aquí y si quieres preinscribirte hazlo aquí

GPUL, our LUG, gets a new web page // Nueva página web del GPUL

I'll write this in spanish as GPUL stuff is mainly targetted for spanish people, sorry.

Pos eso, que los del GPUL (Grupo de Programadores y Usuarios de Linux) ya tenemos nueva página web, podeis verla en gpul.org y aprovechando de que se trata de un drupalillo bien configurado y potito, pos he empezado a escribir chorradas por allí en lo que por ahora es mi weblog. Larga vida a GPUL ;-)

WireLess - The future

Umm, so some of you may wonder what have I been up to (really? I don't think so). Anyway... I've been playing quite a lot with wireless stuff, it is really nice. As a result you can see the WireLess network we are trying to promote in Betanzos, which is called BetaWireLess and a little prism firmware howto for downloading new firmware to the ram on the prism2 cards. This is all in spanish, so a quick spanish note...

Bueno, ya que todo esto está en español... aqui teneis en lo que ando liado ultimamente, las wireless, y fruto de tanto jugar con estas nuevas tecnologías... hemos creado BetaWireLess, la red inalámbrica de Betanzos, y he escrito un chorras prism firmware como para actualizar el firmware de las tarjetas prism2 sobre la ram.

DNS and BIND-The talk

Recently I gave a talk at the University, about DNS configuration with BIND 8.2, I'm putting the slides here, In case anybody may want to look at them, they are not too useful without me explaining them, if this is anyhow useful. But they have a handfull of configs wich may serve as examples. The slides are in spanish, but as no there is nearly no comments, they will serve nearly the same for spanish guys as for the others ;-) I'll explain a bit more in spanish for the spanish guys...

Bueno, esta fue la charla de cierre de las segundas jornadas sobre Linux de GPUL, como decía antes el tema era la configuración de un servidor de DNS usando BIND, aunque sin las explicaciones quizas sirvan de poco, pero como hay gente que las ha pedido, pues pongo las transparencias por aquí

BRIDGE-UTILS

Well, this is now in Debian itself, you can download it here. Anyway, they are the utils for setting up and managing the new bridge code in the 2.4.X kernels or in a properly patched 2.2.X kernel. Get the Package, source, ... from your nearest Debian mirror using the above link.

Home page for the new bridge code to get patches or the sources for bridge-utils is at http://bridge.sourceforge.net

Debian's mbr

Well, I have added support to Debian's mbr for fixing a Y2K problem of some BIOS that only allow the motherboard to boot with years ranging from XX94 to XX99, with this patch the machine boots again on any year, so it can now welcome the new millenium :-)

As a result of this and my talks with Santiago Vila I'm the new maintainer of the mbr package

At the end we are having a new upstream version (1.1.3) with my patch included, isn't it great? This version is already available on Woody and Sid Debian distributions.

Smart Boot Manager

This is a really great great work by Suzhe, this mbr, for example, allows you to boot from ide atapi cds on motherboards that don't allow such a thing, or even from pcmcia cds, ... it is totally configurable from it's menu and has a lot of other good features, really this is the greatest mbr I have seen. You can find it on its home page http://www.gnuchina.org/~suzhe/ and in freshmeat http://freshmeat.net/projects/btmgr/ wich can be faster than gnuchina, at least from here.

I have also added to Suzhe's mbr the same Y2K fix for those broken BIOSes that I have made for Debian's mbr, the fix is totally configurable on Suzhe's mbr from the menu. This fix is included on the new version of btmgr, version 3.7-1 available from any of the two home pages.

Debian includes a package called bmconf that installs Suzhe's mbr, I have e-mailed Gergely Risko, its maintainer in case he wants to include the patch on the bmconf binary version of Suzhe's mbr. Seems that bmconf is gonna become part of the btmgr, and Risko is gonna be doing it, but when he has the time.

As this integration between bmconf and SBM seems to be dealying, Debian now has also a package of the original SBM, you can find it here.

AUTODNS-DHCP

This package is also on Debian's distribution. It does Automatic DNS updates for DHCP, uses bind 8's dynamic update features to update a zonefile with hostnames from the dhcp leases file. This is done just once for each hostname, as the IP, MAC address and name are settled on the dhcp configuration so that, from then on, you have an static zone.

It is ideal if you are having enough IPs for everyone, and you have a lot of machines that you don't want to configure, coming at a meeting all at the same time, this way you have them all with an static IP as soon as they get in the network.

It is based on Stephen Carville's dhcp-dns scripts and the patches that Craig Sanders did when packaging it for Debian, but I have made a lot of changes on both the scripts (the functionality is totally diferent) and on the package.

DDNS-The talk

Recently I gave a talk at the University, about DNS, DHCP and DDNS, I'm putting the slides here, but they are in spanish, so... I'll explain it in spanish also ;-)

Bueno, esta fue la charla de cierre de las primeras jornadas sobre Linux de GPUL, como decía antes va de DNS, DHCP y DDNS, aunque sin las explicaciones quizás sirvan de poco, pero como hay gente que las ha pedido, pues pongo las transparencias por aquí

LIRC

This is the Linux Infrared Remote Control project package, I had made an ITP of version 0.6.0 final, but first Tom Lees took it and now my friend ranty is looking after it. Long time ago I made a patch to add Avermedia support to it, which was adopted on upstream, but that'a all.

I have removed all the stuff from here, as It was all too old for being here, current version in Debian can be found here, ranty is now maintaining it and is also actively developing with upstream.

BTW, lirc now has its own domain www.lirc.org where you can find it's oficial home page.

This is a tarball with my old config files and irmix, a program I did for changing the volume of the sound card using the remote control, ... I have lost the sources for irmix, and I wanted to put some more stuff on it, so I guess I'll have to start from scratch when I find the time some day :-)

lirc-mio.tgz

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