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Category Archives: Linux
Rebuild a Debian package from source
In some rare cases I need to debug some networking protocols and my target of interest is NTP. I am debugging an issue where (maybe) NTP sets the current time backwards about two hours. My first candidate to look deeper … Continue reading
Building etna_viv on the sabre lite
At the moment I am playing around with a cute nice little imx6q board – the sabre lite. I am running a freescale based RFS with the binary libGAL.so blob in the user space. So why not look into etna_viv … Continue reading
SMBus Compatibility With an I²C Device
Some naive guys – like me – think that SMBus and I²C are equal expect the bus level. But in the last days I run into a problem where an at24 based EEPROM connected via SMBus triggers a bus collision … Continue reading
Detect initramfs under Debian squeeze
I am looking for a way to detect If a initramfs was used during boot. And after some reboots and reading of init script of initramfs-tools I found this solution. This may not work under wheezy or any other working … Continue reading
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systemd on a Gentoo based system
I always wanted to try out systemd as I like the ideas and concept behind it. So lets get started: add systemd USE-flag emerge –ask –changed-use –deep @world emerge –ask systemd change grub config to use init=/usr/bin/systemd reboot This can be fixed … Continue reading
Couldn’t register serial port 0000:02:0a.2: -28
I run into a problem where I have a device which has two normal serial ports and some on a PCI device. After booting the kernel I got this error line: In order to get more than 2 serial ports … Continue reading
Git via Git
If you already have Git installed, you can get the latest development version via Git itself: git clone https://github.com/git/git.git
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Change mac address under linux – the brutal way
Last days I run into a problem that I needed to change the mac address of a network card directly under linux. In the last years VxWorks was used for this purpose – oh and yes I know that you … Continue reading
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Who is wasting my disk space
I think all of us run into this problem… the free space on a storage medium is getting smaller and smaller and you are not really sure why this is the case. For such cases I use a graphical tool … Continue reading
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em8300: starting from scratch
The last two days I found again some time to hack on the em8300/dxr3 driver. I see the end comming of all my work, but I need to change the way I work. I have renamed the old project on … Continue reading
