Since I got a Fritz!Box as my Home-Router, the good old Linksys WRT54G just lay in the corner and settled dust. Is became aware of OpenWRT a long time ago, but I didn’t take the time to try it out. One reason was that I didn’t want to loose the comfortable web GUI for configuration internet access. Today I finally got the latest release of OpenWRT (Kamikaze 7.09).
The installation of the OpenWRT Firmware was quiete easy. At first I did backup my old router configuration in the Webinterface, then I did an Firmware Upgrade, also from the Webinterface. After the firmware was uploaded the router took about one or two minutes to reboot and did then respond to pings on 192.168.1.1. Note: If you already have a device using the address 192.168.1.1 on the network, you’d better connect the WRT54 directly to your pc.
The documentation for OpenWRT is quite scattered around the wiki. Probably the first page to look at is the page about configuring Kamikaze. One thing that confused me at frist was how I could log in to the router after the upgrade. Since OpenWRT, by default, doesn’t offer a webinterface and I couldn’t find a default password for SSH I was curios how to log in. The solution is fairly simple: Just connect via telnet, set a root password and the log in via SSH. If you want to change the ip address, go to /etc/config/network and change the address of the “br-lan” interface. You should also add a default gateway and an DNS server, in case your router isn’t going to be connected over his wan interface.
Recently I’ve got myself two new harddrives. I’ve always sticked to Western Digital in the past, but I didn’t find a good offer this time. I’ve found the HD103UJ from Samsung but at first I hesitated because there were reports of high failure rates, obviously in one of the first charges. In the end I’ve got myself two of these and am pretty happy with them. Transfer speed is ok and they stay really cool. About 36°C after several hours of operation with steady cooling. Since the IBM 307030 I’ve always equipped my HDDs with active cooling.
GTA4 for PC will be released in about month … Yay!
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Oktober 13, 2008 in
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The KDE project announced their new forum. Although there are already several KDE forums I like this one because its more ‘official’.
Published on
Oktober 13, 2008 in
Linux.
Recently I did experience a very strange problem related to GnuPG. My mail program, KMail, stopped responding as soon as I did try to open a PGP signed mail or even if I did write a mail. I tracked the problem down to GnuPG. Some long-gone process didn’t release his lock and caused strange troubles.
After removing the locks (pubring.gpg.lock and .#*) it did work fine again.
The latest release of KDE 4.1, 4.1.2, is the second monthly bugfix and perfomance update of KDE. Although not yet officiall announced, the release is already tagged in the KDE SVN and available from Debian experimental. It has brought significat performance improvements and fixed at least one very annoying bug in KWin, which used to crash a every login on my system. Update: It still crashes sometimes, but not always.
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