User:Mrand/non myth stuff

• nautilus (gnome file manager) doesn't show the path. Either hit ctrl-l, or fix this highly annoying oversight permanently: always_use_location_entry
• nx client installed without a hitch. On rare occasions, it takes a long time to establish a connection though. Installing xfs package fixed that.
• Install drivers for USR5421 (USB adapter for wireless max-g):
  1. install ndisgtk: aptitude install ndisgtk
  2. install cabextract and unshield: sudo aptitude install cabextract unshield
  3. unzip 5421-na-1.00.022.exe
  4. cabextract Data.exe
  5. cd Disk1
  6. unshield x data1.cab
  7. cd Installer_Files_USB2kXp/
  8. mkdir /etc/ndiswrapper
  9. use ndisgtk (or ndiswrapper -i USR5421X.inf) (actually says fail because .sys files are missing. Regardless of the message, this command creates /etc/ndiswrapper/usr5421x directory and puts stuff in it)
  10. Exit ndisgtk
  11. sudo mv usb8023k.sys /etc/ndiswrapper/usr5421x
  12. sudo mv RNDISMPK.sys /etc/ndiswrapper/usr5421x/rndismpk.sys
  13. Re-run ndisgtk maybe - says hardware present (and implies driver is installed)
  14. ndiswrapper -l can be used to verify install also .... investigate ndis-gtk for ndiswrapper
  15. not sure what this does, but ndiswrapper docs say do it: depmod -a
  16. sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
  17. Plug in device
  18. check /var/log/syslog (or dmesg?) for crash
  19. config device with any one of these: iwconfig, gdisgtk, or ubuntu network config
  20. some older systems may need

      BUS==”usb”, SYSFS{idProduct}==”011b”, SYSFS{idVendor}==”0baf”, \ PROGRAM=”/bin/sh -c ‘echo 1 > /sys/%p/device/bConfigurationValue’“

      ubuntu looks like it might need RUN+="/bin/sh -c 'echo 1 > /sys/$devpath/device/bConfigurationValue'" rather than PROGRAM= and %p?

  21. To autostart, some systems might need to sudo ndiswrapper -m
  22. If that doesn't autostart, check out [1]
• Rebuild Ubuntu kernel
  1. sudo aptitude install libncurses5 libncurses5-dev # if you plan to use 'make menuconfig'
  2. sudo aptitude install fakeroot bzip2
  3. sudo aptitude install linux-source # kernel source for currently running version of ubuntu
  4. cd /usr/src
  5. ln -s linux-2.6.<whatever> linux
  6. cd /usr/src/linux
  7. sudo cp -vi /boot/config-2.6.24-19-generic .config
  8. sudo make menuconfig
  9. kernel -> deselect debug
  10. sudo make-kpkg clean
  11. sudo fakeroot make-kpkg --initrd --append-to-version=-custom kernel-image kernel-headers
  12. Wait hours
  13. echo vesafb | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
  14. echo fbcon | sudo tee -a /etc/initramfs-tools/modules
  15. sudo dpkg -i linux-image-<version>_i386.deb
  16. sudo dpkg -i linux-headers-<version>_i386.deb
• Debug kernel stuff
  • Documentation/usb/usbmon.txt
  • /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist ... enable evbug here if need be
  • options hid debug=2 in modprobe.d/hid
  • or: modprobe hid debug=2
• Install Horde (with help from [2]
  1. Edit /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini and increase max_filesize
  2. Add AddType application/x-httpd-php .php to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf (I think)
  3. Add DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml to /etc/apache2/apache2.conf