Archive for December, 2008

Gambas 2.10 for Debian Lenny

From the gambas main site
No real new features in this release. But some of the fixed bugs were nasty:
* Possible crashes in the IDE property sheet and while saving forms.
* Crash in the debugger when selecting the “Collection” identifier.
* Automatic completion now works [...]

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Asus eeepc 900A/901 optimized kernel 2.6.28

I’ve decided to make a stripped vanilla kernel for debian/ubuntu after seeing that the lean kernel from array.org has practically nothing stripped out.
For gaining performances, I compiled the kernel with the Core 2/Newer Xeon as Processor Family, removed every generic optimization, compiled statically some driver and change the IO scheduler to no-op (fifo is the [...]

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Instructing APT to not consider recommends packages as strict dependecies

On apt systems, there are three type of dependencies:

Dependant packages
Recommended packages
Suggested packages

The first are packages strictly needed for an application to work correctly (eg: for amsn, the tls library needed to login). The recommended packages are not needed, but they usually add features to the main application (eg: for gimp, the gimp-gnomevfs used to drag [...]

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eeepc 900a alternative bios upgrade procedure

I don’t use Xandros nor Windows XP on my eeepc, and the Alt+F2 on boot utility seems to be very buggy at this moment.
The only one procedure i have found that works is creating an USB bootable pendrive of FreeDOS using unetbootin and to use the Asus DOS utility for flashing bios, reperible from their [...]

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r6040 driver module for ebox 2300-sx for linux 2.6.2x

If you install a recent linux kernel (>2.6.18), the module supplied with the ebox-2300-sx won’t compile.
Here it is a patched version, simply replace it over the existing r6040.c in your kernel sources.
r6040 for ebox 2300-sx

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Sending binary packets with telnet (actually using netcat)

A fast way to send binary data with telnet, is actually to use netcat instead of telnet:
We build a binary packet with an hexeditor, we save it in a file, and we send the file with netcat to the socket.

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