• « The kernel SCM saga »

    Looks like the free-as-in-beer Bitkeeper will soon disappear. You probably read about it all over the internet so I don’t have to explain the causes and consequences of this Bitmover decision. I personnally don’t care very much, as I don’t hack on Linux quite enough to need such a solution. A few scripts to handle…

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  • Gentoo & OS X

    After trying to upgrade gnome on my iBook running gentoo, I found myself waiting a few hours for it to compile everything. And then, when reopening my session, nothing worked anymore (nautilus dying, applets dying, …). As the only other Linux PPC CD I have at home is a really out of date Debian…

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  • Making the zd1201 driver work

    There’s a new driver in 2.6.12-rc1, for the zd1201 chipset found in some USB wifi sticks. As I have one, I tried it. I had to patch a Makefile to get it to build. The driver works really well, I found only two glitches: monitor mode wouldn’t work. I finally found out why. This is…

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  • Netapplet hacking

    I found a nice applet by Robert Love that lets one handle his network connections conveniently. It has the inconvenient of working only with Suse, and requires a daemon to run. Since a while, I use a little sudo’ed bash script named gnet to make all this switching between eth0 and wlan0 and all these…

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  • Claws, Wifi and the kernel

    Sylpheed-Claws: We finally released, officialy, the 1.9.6 version which is gtk2 ! Yay :-) Comments on the mailing-list are quite encouraging. Wifi & the kernel: After another kernel upgrade, Linux works flawlessly with sleep on my iBook. I needed only two USB-related patches so that the USB subsystem survives sleeps ok: one by Paul Mackerras, that…

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