The solution to use Wifi bridge networking with a kernel 2.6.22 is on this forum.
I finally encrypted some partitions of my hard drive.
An external hard drive that I just bought (320 Gb) that allowed me to back up my entire /home partition and consider encrypting it.
Using the serial port is still necessary to manage some devices, when it is reseted to factory defaults. It could be also a security choice… Nowadays many computers – and especially laptops don’t have anymore a built-in serial port. Not a problem, there are many cheap serial-usb converters like this. As an alternative to the [...]
I just replaced ESD by the new sound server Pulseaudio. Pulseaudio brings up some great improvements and is already chipped by Fedora 8. Getting it to work on my Debian Testing was very easy : However there were two issues to face : no more sound with Flash and Skype. To solve the flash issue, [...]
This bug report, created by a Debian developper, reproaches that the Ubuntu website is not refering enough to Debian. I am both using Debian and Ubuntu and loves each other. However, on this point, I am defending the Debian side. Ubuntu should definitely refers more to the Debian community on their website and, in general, [...]
I had several issues with gnome-power-manager and acpi-support. Both are base on the acpid daemon for power management. Acpi-support is a convenient package of scripts to configure the power management. It is bundled in many distributions, including Ubuntu and Debian. The problem is that it does not cooperate very well with gnome-power-manager. As a result, [...]
If you have a laptop, Network-Manager running and use ACPI to hibernate, look at this bug report and its nice tip : Editing /etc/default/acpi-support with this line : STOP_SERVICES=”networking” solved an old issue I used to have (and for which I wrote a dirty script with modprobe, dhclient, etc.
A nice website : http://hardware4linux.info/ Whith the provided script, you can upload your hardware information there and quickly rate your experience with it (for each equipment it detected). I just did it for my laptop and will go on with my other machines. It will probably become an interesting database.
