Category Archives: debian
Debian Squeeze (aka 6.0) on IBM ThinkPad R52.
Installing the latest version of Debian ThinkPad R52 was not as straight forward as I thought. I had only one issue and this blog post talks about that. Since I manually solved this problem, I hope a blog post might be useful for others. The problem occurs while detecting “Network devices”. The installer is unable [...]
Orgmode – Generate custom report using external python script.
I use orgmode in emacs as a to-do list manager. End of every week I send my status report to the team. Earlier I used to do this manually by going through the agenda for the week and collecting relevant information. I thought of automating it since this is repeated every week. It was super [...]
Filtering IMAP mails using imapfilter
I use gnus to read my mails. Gnus is a very powerful emacs tool. Basically we don’t require a client side filtering system if one is provided by the server like Google Mail. But we do require one if the server is not supporting filtering mechanism. Initially I was using inbuilt filtering system from gnus. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Western Digital – WD – 120 GB USB 2.0 Hard Drive on GNU/Linux.
Recently I bought this device from Buy.com. There was an $80 offer on Buy.com few weeks back. Before buying this device I plugged one of my friends same device into my laptop. GNU/Linux (Debian Sarge – Linux Kernel – 2.6.17.7) detected it as a hard drive. I mounted the device successfully and was able to [...]