Author Archives: noorul
Setting up wpa_supplicant on Debian etch (linux 2.6.25.3)
Recently, I was trying to connect to a WiFi access point in my room. Some how the system not able to associate to the access point. It took lots of time for me to find out that WPA-PSK encryption is used. Following steps helped me to setup wpa_supplicant which encrypts the stream. 1. Create wpa_supplicant.conf. [...]
Compile issues with ieee80211 and ipw2200 on linux kernel 2.6.25.
The latest version of iee80211 (ieee80211-1.2.18) and ipw220 (ipw2200-1.2.2) are not compiling properly on the latest linux kernel 2.6.25.3. I got the following error when I compiled ipw2200 on my laptop. /home/noorul/software/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.2.2/ipw2200.c: In function ‘ipw_pci_probe’: /home/noorul/software/ipw2200/ipw2200-1.2.2/ipw2200.c:11937: error: implicit declaration of function ‘SET_MODULE_OWNER’ In my case I was able to find out a solution from some [...]
Compiling and Installing E17 on Debian Sarge – GNU/Linux.
I was struggling to install E17 from CVS on my Debian system. I couldn’t find out the exact steps that I have to follow. Recently I joined e-users mailing list and I got help from one the members. The steps are given below. cd mkdir src cd src cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@anoncvs.enlightenment.org:/var/cvs/e co e17/libs/eet cvs -z3 [...]
Struggling with playing VCD on GNU/Linux.
Few months back I tried playing a VCD on my linux laptop but I couldn’t play it. I spent some time trying to find out what went wrong. dmesg showed lots of error messages like this. hdc: command error: status=0×51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hdc: command error: error=0×54 { AbortedCommand LastFailedSense=0×05 } ide: failed [...]
Sony Ericsson w810i – Airtel Mobile Office – A review.
Sony Ericsson w810i – Airtel Mobile Office – A review 11:30 Recently I bought a Sony Ericsson w810i mobile. Till then I was using Nokia 1100. I never felt to go for a high end model. Recently Airtel introduced Mobile Office scheme and I thought of utilising this feature. Airtel Mobile Office provide various schemes [...]
Ruby 1.8 with POP3 with SSL support.
Ruby 1.8 does’nt have code to access POP3 servers using SSL. But there is code for accessing HTTP servers using SSL. So I thought I can tweak the same code to use with Net::POP3 class. Since these days gmail is so popular that most of the people started using it. Gmail only provides POP3 over [...]
Configuring SE W810i on Debian GNU/Linux to connect to the internet.
I use SE W810i with Airtel Mobile Office service to connect to the internet. There are two ways by which you can do this. One is connecting the mobile phone to the computer using USB cable. Another option is to connect the phone using Bluetooth. Both options allows you to use the phone as a [...]
Know ICICI Securities charges!
I was not completely aware of the following charges that ICICIDirect levied on every transaction. The general brokerage that is charged for delivery based trading is 0.75% of the trade value or Rs.25 whichever is higher. For the transaction value less than Rs.1000 the flat brokerage of 2.5 % will be applicable. Service Tax @ [...]
IBM ThinkPad R52 and linux
I upgraded my kernel from 2.6.21 to 2.6.22. But, somehow with the same .config from 2.6.21 didn’t work as I expected with 2.6.22. The model R52 comes with IDE CD-ROM drive. So I wanted to use the ide drivers with scsi emulation for CD-ROM. I compiled ide modules into the kernel so that it gets [...]
Compiling emacs-unicode from cvs on debian etch.
Emacs-22+ doesn’t support Xft fonts, hence the look and feel of emacs on X-Windows is not that good. But development is going on to provide this feature in emacs. The emacs-unicode-2 branch for emacs has this feature, hopefully this will get integrated to emacs-23. I followed the following steps to compile emacs-unicode from CVS. 1. [...]