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My New Cheap GSM / Voip wifi Phone (Twin v2)

Everybody have a mobile phone right now, and me too :) I just bought a nice little phone from my DSL provider. They offer a good deal for new users like me: Free phone when you call wired phone (or SIP) thought a Wifi connection, and pay at normal rate when you use the GSM [...]

admin June 2nd, 2007

Media Player (Dvico 3100) + Netgear WGT634U = Cheap Wifi Media Player

This year, for my birthday I have a very nice Media Player M3100. This stuff is really usefull, no need to use a noisy computer to watch recorded Divx. It’s pretty kool to watch films from beds you know..
The only issue: I need to take it back to my computer when I want to upload [...]

admin April 5th, 2007

Playing music on soundcard without locking

Why this soundcard allow me to play 2 mp3 at the same time while this doesn’t.. Hum good question. In fact to support this kind of stuff the sound card should support have some sub-device, to be sure .. simply aplay -l
Here on my shuttle .. not working
aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card [...]

admin February 9th, 2005

Linux Kernel Hackers remove the Philips USB Webcam support

Everybody hate binary kernel module: that’s clear, but sometimes that the only way to use some hardware.
This is really a bad news to all webcam users: USB kernel hackers decide to patch PWC kernel driver to avoid the use of the extended kernel module which is binary only. Check out this for more infos.
update: read [...]

admin August 26th, 2004

Sagem Fast 800 on Linux (Debian)

This is quite easy, but the doc is too old.. so:

Download latest eagle-usb
Untar
make
make install
eagleconfig (to enter your config..)
rm /etc/init.d/eagle-usb (this doesn’t work on debian ..)
eaglectl -w (to load kernel modules and so on..)
startadsl

admin August 10th, 2004

Video Card Hack

I run into trouble with my GeForce Ti 4000 (a Creative one). After doing a lot of noise, the ventillator decide to stop.
So i decided to hack it:

admin March 17th, 2004

Howto install Alsa on Debian (kernel 2.4)

Installing Alsa (as a lot of linux kernel module) on Debian (w/ debian package) can be a real pain. But this one is really simple:
- apt-get install alsa-base
- apt-get install alsa-source
Take care that alsa-base ask you which sound card you have. This is needed for building the init-script.
Next:
cd /usr/src/
tar xvfj alsa-driver.tar.bz2
cd modules/alsa-driver
./configure
make
make install
/etc/init.d/alsa start
Take [...]

admin January 21st, 2004

Imode

One broken cellphone ( Alcatel ), a new one: Nec 22i. Despite I don’t really like this kind of stuff, this one looks pretty kool, and have email / and web acces. This gonna drive me in imode-MT access.

admin November 16th, 2003

Linux on Ipaq

I still have the Ipaq at home. and i have done several things w/. The only trouble is that the ROM is quite full so I can’t install new stuff on .
As you can see here. The ipaq runs Xipaq and a rxvt.

I pretty like the sshd running on iPaq. It really make it damn [...]

admin November 15th, 2003