A little bit of wisdom
A (very) quick ‘howto’ to make a wireless access point from a Linux machine (should also with with Raspberry Pi with some modifications to the config files) NOTE: This howto assumes you already have a supported wireless network adaptor – not all adaptors support AP mode. Requirements: ifupdown / bridge-utils/ crda / wireless-regdb / hostapd […]
Despite following the installation guide, I encountered various issues when configuring archlinux (2021.12.01) recently. I’m not sure if these were failures on my part, but in any case I documented my configuration steps below. First step was to get a working internet connection. My network interface is enp3s0 so all commands reference that: Manually add […]
I was getting the following message in my log files on my Debian firewall. kernel: conntrack: generic helper won’t handle protocol 47. Please consider loading the specific helper module. The nf_conntrack_proto_gre module needs to be loaded to resolve this. modprobe nf_conntrack_proto_gre To load it automatically at boot, I created a new file (gre.conf) in /etc/modules-load.d […]
I have an Eco-Eye Smart energy meter, and they provide software for Windows, but nothing for Linux. When I purchased the meter, I also bought the optional USB cable, which emulates a serial port. This made it quite trivial to connect and read within Linux. On my Linux server, the device appeared as /dev/ttyUSB0 So […]
When building an image that is to be used on multiple machines of the same type, it’s useful to keep the drivers after running SYSPREP. To do this run the following prior to SYSPREP Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Setup\Sysprep\Settings\sppnp Select Edit – New DWORD value Name the new value PersistAllDeviceInstalls Set to a value of 1 and […]
I upgraded my Swift 2x to Android 8.2, however this resulted in very poor battery life. Frustrated with this, I looked around to see if I could restore the original factory ROM and revert to Android 7.x So here are the steps I took to achieve this. NOTE: Please read this guide thoroughly from start […]
Update: 06/05/2020 – I seem to have missed a couple of steps when I created the initial post! (I forgot about the systemd unit file – now corrected) rc.local has been deprecated in Debian 9. However, you can still enable it with the following steps. Create a new file /etc/rc.local Add the following lines: #!/bin/sh […]
I spent a lot of time trying to get OpenDKIM to work on Debian Stretch. Having searched the Internet thoroughly, once again I found many different configurations, none of which actually worked for me. These are my various config files, with the domain name(s) swapped for “example.com” and the ‘selectors’ swapped for “example-selector-name” If you […]
If you are getting the Code 52 or Error #52 message when plugging your Nike+ Sportwatch into USB.. Try plugging it into a USB 2.0 port and not USB 3.0 (the blue port). It doesn’t seem to work properly in some USB 3.0 ports. Nike rather unhelpfully suggest: If Code 52 persists, reset the SportWatch […]
Debian 8.9 (Jessie) The problem I had was a bind9 server that wouldn’t run in a chroot environment, despite being configured to do so in /etc/default/bind9 Running the daemon directly from the command line using named -u bind -4 -t /var/named/chroot worked just fine and the server ran as expected. After a little research I […]
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