{"id":326,"date":"2004-02-09T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-09T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/linux_update.html"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1970-01-01T05:00:00","slug":"linux_update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/2004\/02\/09\/linux_update","title":{"rendered":"Useful Information Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Whenever I discover a solution to a computer-related problem that isn&#8217;t easily found on <a href=\"http:\/\/google.com\">google<\/a>, I post it on my <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/code\/linux.html\">useful linux<\/a> page, in the hopes of saving other people time with the same problem. I&#8217;m always trying to figure out the best way to present the problem and solution so that people will find what they&#8217;re looking for. Right now, I&#8217;ve just got a laundry list of problems and solutions on that page, which seems to work pretty well based on my traffic analysis (particularly for people searching for the <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/free_software\/code\/linux.html\">cups client-error-forbidden<\/a> message, which has brought thousands of visitors to my site). <\/p>\n<p> In any case, here&#8217;s my most recent batch of useful stuff: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I&#8217;ve written a few times about my <a href=\"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/technology\/seeking_wifi_guru.html\">wireless woes<\/a>. I couldn&#8217;t for the life of me figure out why my Xircom CWE-1120 card couldn&#8217;t connect to my Access Point. As it turns out, the card was set to the <b>French<\/b> Channel Set, which is different from the North American Channel Set, except on Channels 10 and 11. So I set my Access Point to Channel 10, and now I can finally access my network. There is, allegedly, a DOS command line tool that allows you to reprogram the EEPROM on Cisco cards to switch the channel set to North American, but I was unable to locate it. In fact, Intel (who purchased Xircom, which produced the card) was very wary of the whole topic. I suspect it might be illegal to have\/use this tool, since it might permit you to set your card to a mode that violates FCC regulations. Intel was actually pretty spooked that I even had the cards (which I purchased legitimately in the United States, thinking they were North American cards). Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danlan.com\">Dan Lanciani<\/a> on the <a href=\"https:\/\/lists.sourceforge.net\/lists\/listinfo\/airo-linux-gen80211\">airo-linux-gen80211<\/a> list for finally pointing this out to me.<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been trying to set up GNU\/Linux (remotely) on my brother&#8217;s Toshiba p25-s477 (one of a seemingly endless number of obscurely named Toshiba laptops). Almost everything worked fine, except the sound was almost inaudible, and substantially distorted with external amplified speakers. It turns out I needed to go into the alsamixer (ncurses GUI) program and set &#8220;External Amp Power Down&#8221; to &#8220;Mute.&#8221; This is far from intuitive: first, that &#8220;external amp power down&#8221; would be &#8220;on&#8221; by default, and second, that you need to &#8220;mute&#8221; this setting to have &#8220;power down&#8221; turned &#8220;off.&#8221; But that&#8217;s how it works. (solution <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp\/ML\/tlinux-users\/4800\/4869.html\">posted by someone<\/a> in the aesthetically weird <a href=\"http:\/\/linux.toshiba-dme.co.jp\/linux\/eng\/mlservice.htm\">tlinux-users mailing list<\/a>.)<\/li>\n<li>I&#8217;ve been looking for functional Debian Java packages that work with latest Mozilla in sid. I tried downloading several Java binaries from sun and elsewhere and either it didn&#8217;t register in Mozilla or crashed immediately. I finally discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/jrfonseca.dyndns.org\">Jos&#233; Fonseca<\/a>&#8217;s excellent Java packages that actually work. Add the following to your \/etc\/apt\/sources.list to get these packages:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p> deb http:\/\/jrfonseca.dyndns.org\/debian .\/ <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> As a side note, does anyone have any idea why so many webmail interfaces are hooked on unnecessary Java? I provide <a href=\"http:\/\/www.squirrelmail.org\">SquirrelMail<\/a> as the webmail interface for bostoncoop.net, and it seems to do quite well without Java, Flash, streaming video, or any other silliness. Do makers of webmail software just get a kick out of making their software not work with standard browser installations? <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whenever I discover a solution to a computer-related problem that isn&#8217;t easily found on google, I post it on my useful linux page, in the hopes of saving other people time with the same problem. I&#8217;m always trying to figure out the best way to present the problem and solution so that people will find [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adam.rosi-kessel.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}