Hi all… I got fed up of restoring my firmware for the Broadcom wireless chip in my late-2008 model MacBook. Anyone who has one of these might find the current in-tree versions of net-wireless/b43-firmware is missing files needed by the modern b43 driver (namely ucode16_mimo.fw), and net-wireless/b43-fwcutter doesn’t well, cut it, for extracting the newer [...]
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To whoever were responsible for developing this new feature in the latest Portage releases… zhouman portage # FEATURES=-test USE=-handbook\ -doc emerge -eukDN –keep-going system kde-meta vim poppler =xulrunner-2.0.1-r1 =vim-core-7.3.189 =gvim-7.3.189 gst-plugins-base vim =gst-plugins-theora-0.10.32 =firefox-4.0.1-r1 Calculating dependencies… done! !!! One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: app-editors/vim-core:0 (app-editors/vim-core-7.3.219::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for [...]
Well, I’ve been meaning to get around to fixing up svxlink in Gentoo for a long time now. For those who don’t know, svxlink is a client and server for the EchoLink amateur radio linking system. We had to stop releasing the Qtel client, as it relied on Qt3 which we no longer ship in [...]
This weekend just gone I was at Imbil helping out with the International Rally of Queensland, reporting scores for the car rally there. This was my first look at packet radio in action. Prior to this I had enabled the amateur radio options in the kernels I built, but never tried actually hooking radio to [...]
Well, been some time now since I announced the start of some µClibc stages. So far, not much has happened there other than the fact that I’ve successfully hard-locked the Fulong 2E system that I tried compiling on. This is despite compiling with binutils-2.21 and using -Wa,-mfix-loongson2f-nop… which is usually enough to prevent lockups. Clearly [...]
Well, I’ve done some tinkering with Gentoo/Prefix on MacOS X. Not bad so far, although there’s a lot of packages not keyworded… (a bit like MIPS) and some packages I miss from regular Gentoo (e.g. crossdev). However, we can work on sorting this out over time. For those of you who aren’t particularly fond of [...]
Well, one thing I’ll need to investigate… I’ve been battling a slightly broken bzip2 which when compressing some files, would cause the whole machine to lock up. Environment is µClibc-0.9.31 based, using gcc-4.5.2. Everything compiled with the CFLAGS: “-Os -pipe -mips1 -Wa,-mfix-loongson2f-nop”. The latter flag is really for Loongson 2F but I find it helpful [...]
Well, it seems I might have µClibc stages going again, at least for little endian initially, then I might fire up one of the SGI boxes and see about a big-endian version. For a long while, Gentoo/MIPS support for this lightweight C library was all but missing ever since an ABI change broke the µClibc [...]
Hi all, As promised I’ve put up some of the ebuilds needed to use the YubiKey in Gentoo. This includes a PAM module for stand-alone authentication with the YubiKey, which I have patched to support concatenated two-factor authentication. These are in a new overlay: git://git.longlandclan.yi.org/overlays/yubikey.git http://git.longlandclan.yi.org/git/overlays/yubikey.git Stand-alone two factor authentication: Password + YubiKey with YubiPAM [...]
Amongst playing with the YubiKey, I also had a look at DHCPv6. As people well know, IPv4′s days are numbered, and given we’re all going to have to jump across to IPv6 fairly soon, I figured I had better get acquainted with the newer protocols that come with it. I’ve had my network running dual-stack [...]
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