Category Archives: Linux

Meego – a first stroll

Posted on October 30, 2010 by frank

I was curious about the current state of MeeGo so i decided to have a look at the handset image that was released last Monday (v1.1). The image can be run inside QEMU or inside a chroot environment using Xephyr. … Continue reading →

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Integrating the NetworkManager with aiccu

Posted on October 26, 2009 by frank

I am using the service of SixXS to connect my laptop with the IPv6 internet. They provide an utility called aiccu to setup the tunnel. Getting it to work is really painless. Just do an “apt-get install aiccu”, configure your … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu 9.10 DNS/network troubles

Posted on October 26, 2009 by frank

After installing Kubuntu 9.10 RC1 networking became kind of flaky. It somehow worked but everything was slow and unpredictable. It was most visible while browsing the web. Some pages where loading for ages (5+ minutes), some never finishing to load … Continue reading →

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OpenWrt Gemini 0.2

Posted on March 29, 2008 by frank

Paolo Scaffardi just released version 0.2 of his OpenWrt port for SL3516 based devices. The main change from the 0.1 release is that he switched to the OpenWrt trunk as base. The great benefit of this decision is that there … Continue reading →

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Webif^2 tutorial part 02

Posted on March 22, 2008 by frank

Last time we created a simple “hello world” page. Not very useful. For our NAS box we need a way to input/select configuration data. Web interfaces implement user input using HTML forms. Webif^2 provides some features to make it easier … Continue reading →

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Webif^2 tutorial part 01

Posted on March 21, 2008 by frank

This article tries to explain how you can extend Webif^2 with your own functionality. I am myself new to Webif^2. The reason i am writing this article is to get acquainted enough with the code so i can decide if … Continue reading →

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Webif^2 on a NAS box

Posted on March 21, 2008 by frank

Webif^2 aka. X-Wrt is a kick ass web interface used on OpenWrt systems. I really like it but as the main focus of OpenWrt is routers and related devices it is missing a lot of functionality which would be needed … Continue reading →

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Up and running!

Posted on March 13, 2008 by frank

I managed to build and install the 0.1 release of OpenWrt for SL3516 based devices. It needed some small tweaks to make it compile but nothing too serious. The only pitfall was that you need to change the gcc version … Continue reading →

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Crippled Redboot

Posted on March 12, 2008 by frank

From working with evaluation boards for the intel ixp4xx and ixp24xx i have some previous experience with Redboot and i always liked its power and flexibility. Given this i really don’t like the Redboot found on the NAS-4220 (and other … Continue reading →

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dm_crypt on the NAS-4220

Posted on March 11, 2008 by frank

According to Harald Welte who had a look at the GPL sources released by RaidSonic, the hardware crypto acceleration is not integrated with dm_crypt. It supports only the older and now deprecated crypto loop system. That is bad news. Getting … Continue reading →

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