hp dv1000 wireless button

to turn this bugger on
rmmod ipw2100
then
modprobe ipw2100

our society sucks

The world we live in favours the rich. The rich gets to make more money and gets more benefits and discounts. The poor gets more interest, penalties and fines.

What I have unfortunately experienced is that if you cannot afford it or run into money problems you have to spend more. Late paying your house loans, they increase your interest rates. Late for anything else, gets fines.

Fucked up, totally unislamic.

the muslim's dilema

what good is power if you can't use it for evil

nokia N73 is a piece of crap

yes, this phone is a piece of crap. do not buy or accept it as a gift. Dispose as soon as you get it.

I bought one for my wife, she complained and I offered to use it. After 3 days I wanted to smash it against the wall but I paid so much, 1700 for it that held me back. If I was well off I would smash it and save someone the agony of using it.

Here's why. The camera application takes forever to load. Over 60s is not uncommon. Not only that it resets itself several times before starting and frequently resets itself when trying to record video. I'm guessing it's out of memory but I only have 2 other things running, google maps and an antivirus. Sometimes I get fed up I just pull the battery out (since shutting down takes forever too). Restarting although >60s is faster than trying to fuck with the phone and getting it to work. If you want to get that sudden plane crash forget it, by the time you get the camera working it would have carshed and been cleaned up.

Another problem is the SMS messaging. Another SLOW application. When you press the 'show' option from the main screen it takes >30s to get there by which time the screen lock has kicked in and you have to enter the unlock code, what a frickin hassle. Even under normal circumstances its slow. Just to get to the message screen takes a while. By the time the phone is ready for input I've forgotten what I wanted to write!

Memory is another problem, 64Meg is not longer sufficient. Seems just the basic applications needs RAM memory, heaps of it. Seems the 'out of memory' error comes up too frequently. Unbelievable.

The web browser is another RAM memory HOG. After a couple of pages it complains that there is insufficient memory. And sometimes exits. Fucked up!

Apologies for the profanities but this phone is definitely not worth it, even for free. Borrow one first if you really want it. Try it for about 4 days.

Conclusion, get something better. Get a basic phone that works fast and get a separate digital camera.

enlightenment foundation library SUCKS

never thought I'd say it but it does.

Initially wanted to use Evas but the doco convinced me that Edje was what I wanted ... but ... all I got was that, documentation.

Evas used to have sample/test code, now it's gone. The 'edje' executable in the doc don't exist. WTF.

How the f**k can I QUICKLY experiment when I have to do so much exploration!

Please give us the test codes, or tell us where the f**k they are.

No wonder no-one uses it.

direct wireless (ad-hoc) between OSX Tiger and windows

I was hoping to be able to network my PCs via wireless. Since I don't have enough money for a wireless switch I bought an Aztech USB wireless adapter. Unfortunately it was not an easy task (and I only get 11mbs from the ad-hoc network but that's another story).

It took quite a while tinkering to eventually stumble on a solution.

The problem was that the builtin Mac wireless was not able to join a network (not for me anyways). But eventually I got the windows PC to join the Mac network. Here's how I did it.

Ensure there is no network with the ID that you want to use eg 'booger'. I then create a new network connection via 'system preferences'.



















Choose 'network' then 'network port configurations'


then create a new network based on airport


now choose the new network


manually set the ip address


now open the 'network status'


now select the new network and press connect


now create a new wireless network


now press the 'network:' tab and 'create network' then set an ad-hoc network name and add a password

now you can connect to it via windows.

you could now ping from the Mac or Windows assuming you don't have a restrictive firewall.

merlin u530 ubuntu powerbook g4 setup

I finally worked out how to use my Merlin U530 on my Ubuntu PPC Powerbook G4.

After googling around the web and contemplating recompiling the kernel (and kicking the crap out of the PC) I finally noticed a forum, regarding a Xen kernel, where it mentions that one should not start its console because it would conflict with serial_cs. I knew the Gutsy version recognised the card because that was why I overwrote my Edgy version when using the liveCD. The frustrating thing was that after installation Ubuntu Gutsy was never able to recognise the card again. Even the liveCD!

After noticing the forum discussion it thought I'd give it a go. Got nothing to lose anyways.

I looked at the messages log and noticed:

Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 67.488926] PCI: Enabling device 0001:10:12.0 (0004 -> 0006)
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 69.385802] pmac_zilog: 0.6 (Benjamin Herrenschmidt )
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 69.385903] ttyS0 at MMIO 0x80013020 (irq = 22) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 69.386232] ttyS1 at MMIO 0x80013000 (irq = 23) is a Z85c30 ESCC - Serial port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 70.040975] pccard: PCMCIA card inserted into slot 0
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 70.340953] cs: memory probe 0x80000000-0xafffffff: excluding 0x80000000-0x807fffff 0x90000000-0xa07fffff
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 70.386534] cs: memory probe 0xf3000000-0xf3ffffff: excluding 0xf3000000-0xf33fffff
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 70.538273] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.0
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 70.538487] pcmcia: registering new device pcmcia0.1
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.022916] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.166315] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_unregister_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.166653] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_resume_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.166806] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_register_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.166968] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_suspend_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.177218] snd-aoa-fabric-layout: found bus with layout 51
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.221263] snd-aoa-fabric-layout: can use this codec
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.231547] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.246667] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_unregister_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.247003] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_resume_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.247159] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_register_port
Apr 25 14:47:52 macpower kernel: [ 71.247322] serial_cs: Unknown symbol serial8250_suspend_port


See how pmac_zilog uses /dev/ttyS0 and ttyS1. Since it has used the ports lets remove it:

rmmod pmac_zilog


The ttyS0 and ttyS1 should now be unused.
Now:

modprobe serial_cs


Logs:

Apr 28 13:30:41 macpower kernel: [ 435.356029] Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
Apr 28 13:30:41 macpower kernel: [ 435.384928] pcmcia: request for exclusive IRQ could not be fulfilled.
Apr 28 13:30:41 macpower kernel: [ 435.384941] pcmcia: the driver needs updating to supported shared IRQ lines.
Apr 28 13:30:41 macpower kernel: [ 435.426154] 0.0: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 53) is a 16550A


WooHoo. It worked. All I had to do was set up my chatscript and ppp.

No serial...never mind as long as I have my net. :)

debug
noauth
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/celcom"
usepeerdns
/dev/ttyS0 115200
defaultroute
crtscts
lcp-echo-failure 0

includes the first newline
TIMEOUT 35
ECHO ON
ABORT '\nBUSY\r'
ABORT '\nERROR\r'
ABORT '\nNO ANSWER\r'
ABORT '\nNO CARRIER\r'
ABORT '\nNO DIALTONE\r'
ABORT '\nRINGING\r\n\r\nRINGING\r'
'' \rAT
OK 'AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","celcom3g","",0,0'
OK ATD*99***1#
CONNECT ""