Here’s a followup on my previous post Dell Wireless 5809e support in openSUSE 13.2.
Category: Hardware
Fixing wireless regulatory support (crda, wireless-regdb) on openSUSE Tumbleweed
On recent SUSE-based distributions such as openSUSE Tumbleweed (and potentially also 13.2), executing iw reg get to check your WiFi device’s regulatory setup will likely get you an output such as this: global country 00: DFS-UNSET (2402 – 2472 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A) (2457 – 2482 @ 40), (N/A, 20), (N/A), NO-IR (2474 -… Continue reading Fixing wireless regulatory support (crda, wireless-regdb) on openSUSE Tumbleweed
Correcting the soundcard order with onboard sound and HDMI output
Like many current devices with HDMI output, my Latitude E7450 offers multiple sound cards but configures the HDMI output as sound card 0 (the default). And xfce’s default sound mixer doesn’t offer switching the default output… To correct the soundcard order, add this to your /etc/modprobe.d/50-sound.conf (valid for openSUSE 13.2, probably other distros as well):… Continue reading Correcting the soundcard order with onboard sound and HDMI output
Dell Wireless 5809e support in openSUSE 13.2
This post is about getting the LTE card to work that gets built into current Dell Notebooks such as the Latitude E5450/E7450:
Customizing my Samsung Galaxy S5
So I got a new Samsung Galaxy S5 mobile phone. This describes the customizing that I did.
Dissecting an Edimax IC-3116W IP camera
As an overview: System-on-Chip: RealTek RTL8197D Embedded CPU: RealTek RLX5281 @ 660 MHz, MIPS16 instruction set, 64KB instruction cache, 32KB data cache Embedded LAN controller: RealTek RTL8196C, two Ethernet MACs (only one used) Embedded USB controller: RealTek RTL8652, USB 2.0 External flash memory chip: Macronix MX25L6405D, 3V, 64MBit (= 8MB) External RAM chip: Nanya NT5TU32M16DG-AC,… Continue reading Dissecting an Edimax IC-3116W IP camera
Flashing the D-Link DBT-120 to become a HID proxy-capable USB bluetooth adapter
As pointed out in my previous post, I was looking into flashing the D-Link DBT-120 USB bluetooth adapter with Apple’s Bluetooth Firmware update so it becomes HID proxy-capable.
The crux of finding a HID proxy-capable USB bluetooth adapter
So, for some not very profound reasons (watching demos and putting my spare Ivy Bridge CPU to a use), I ended up having a living room PC again. And as it’s the living room, input devices must be wireless. Since I’m not a fan of running proprietary wireless technologies that jam my Wifi’s 2.4 GHz… Continue reading The crux of finding a HID proxy-capable USB bluetooth adapter
Hello Intel, thanks for shutting down your mainboard business
Three weeks ago I dared to flash the BIOS of my home server’s Intel DQ77KB mainboard to address a number of smaller issues related to BIOS settings not being applied. Apart from the fact that anno 2013 Intel still requires you to create a bootable USB stick, a process still complicated enough it makes you… Continue reading Hello Intel, thanks for shutting down your mainboard business
Windows Update inside KVM virtual machine crashes iwlwifi
And I was wondering why running Windows Update inside a KVM virtual machine failed with some mysterious error code: