Cisco Networking

Cisco inverse subnet masks

Leeched from http://www.cyberflunk.com/~nikm/cisco/masks.html (without permission) Cisco Netmasks, CIDR sizes, and Inverse Masks The address/netmask syntax of 172.16.35.0/255.255.255.0 should be familiar to anyone with some experience with IP routing, and is fairly easy to figure out address ranges given a calculator and a piece of scrap paper. There are other forms of addressing which are used […]

Hardware Windows

IBM T60P Laptop – installing SATA drivers – Windows XP

This article is dated now, as it’s only for Windows XP – however it is left here for historical purposes. This is a read me from the IBM / Lenovo website and covers the installation of the SATA drivers on Windows Vista & XP. The original document and drivers can be downloaded here. http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-62909 INSTALLATION […]

Hardware Windows

IBM T60P Sound Drivers installation. (Windows XP)

This is dated now, as it’s only for Windows XP – however it is left here for historical purposes. I experienced tremendous problems installing these drivers under WinXP SP2. The following steps worked for me. 1) Install windows XP. 2) Download and install KB888111 from here http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-68974.html If this link doesn’t work – search for […]

Linux

How to recover a grub boot partition

The RedHat / CentOS way. Title should be “recover grub boot loader really”! Boot into recovery mode from the linux rescue cd. Type: chroot /mnt/sysimage – this will make your main / partition (currently mounted under /mnt/sysimage) the / partition. Type mount and find which device is your hard disk. This could be sda or […]