By Anton Piatek, on November 26th, 2006%
So I got my card working not long ago, then went and bought a amd64 pc and had to do it all again. It wasn’t a walk in the park last time, and this time the driver would compile but wouldn’t load. I was about to email the amd64 debian mailing list when I found someone saying to try the rt2x00 driver. So I did…
module-assistant get rt2x00
module-assistant build rt2x00
module-assistant install rt2x00
modrpobe rt2x00
All fine, so I decided to try loading up the card.
my /etc/network/interfaces looks like:
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wireless-essid MySSID
wpa-driver wext
wpa-conf /etc/wpasupplicant.conf
and my /etc/wpasupplicant.conf was modified from the wpa example supplied with the wpasupplicant package (/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant) and looks like
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
network={
ssid=”my ssid”
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
proto=WPA
pairwise=TKIP
group=TKIP
psk=”my wifi key”
}
Then running
ifup wlan0
and I am connected.
Sooo much simpler than the other way I did it
EDIT: Don’t forget (like I did first) to grab the firmware from ralink as the driver won’t work without the firmware files!
By Anton Piatek, on November 26th, 2006%
If you thought the new UK RFID passports are secure, then you need to see the following article which says otherwise: Cracked it! – Guardian Unlimited
Suffice to say, I will be carrying mine in a foil wallet when I get it!
By Anton Piatek, on November 26th, 2006%
Since I last had to install the nvidia drivers in debian, things have changed a bit.
It used to be fiddly to get the nvidia drivers installed, but if you are running etch (or later) you should just be able to run (as root)
apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-common nvidia-glx
module-assistant auto-install nvidia
module-assistant install nvidia
Then just edit your X config (/etc/X11/xorg.conf) and change the driver line with “nv” to “nvidia” and restart your window manager and all should be running.
There is a wonderful howto with loads more detail at http://home.comcast.net/~andrex/Debian-nVidia/installation.html
By Anton Piatek, on November 20th, 2006%
If you thought that the models you see in ads were born beautiful, perhaps you should watch this… Evolution – A Dove Film – Google Video
Now, if only I could do that sort of stuff in photoshop. Sadly I am not that good…
By Anton Piatek, on November 20th, 2006%
I had no idea that the UK has an ugly vegetable competition
By Anton Piatek, on November 17th, 2006%
Apologies if you have been unable to view the RSS feed.
It turns out one of my plugins had some whitespace at the end of it and some feed readers do not like an empty line at the top of the xml file. All fixed now though.
(Thanks Andrew for pointing this out)
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