Wireless support Ok, now there is an Ubuntu system installed on the old Dell Inspiron 8000. Only one thing remains: some kind of wireless support. So, to this end, I have bought an Edimax wireless usb stick: EW-7318Ug. Gutsy default By default Gutsy loads the rt73usb module when the usb stick is inserted but I was not able to use this configuration in order to connect to the wireless network even if I have tried various things....
I have 2 old Dell Inspiron 8000 laptops which even if they are around 6 years old still have some nice features: 1600×1200 screen resolution very good quality sound card compared to the one of my new D820 (maestro3 versus intel_hda) Both of them are running linux since a very long time but I wanted to install a fresh/clean new version on one of them in order to be used as a music, internet station at home since I am afraid that backpack carrying the D820 each day on a bicycle will finally prove fatal to it....
Awstats apt-get install awstats copy configuration files and cached data (old statistics) from old machine (the cached data will have to be copied once again exactly before moving to production) mkdir /var/cache/awstats ln -s /usr/share/doc/awstats/examples/awstats_buildstaticpages.pl apt-get install libgeo-ipfree-perl libgeo-ip-perl geoip-bin #(required for the geoip plugin for awstats) Build the stats files using: AWSTATS=/usr/lib/cgi-bin/awstats.pl $AWSTATS -config=nemesisit.ro -update awstats_buildstaticpages.pl -config=nemesisit.ro -dir=/data/www/data/analyze/awstats -awstatsprog=$AWSTATS Not so simple At first everything seemed ok and I was even dumb enough to not check the results in detail but after a while I realized they did not worked:...
DHCP Installing a dhcp server was quite simple. # apt-get install dhcp3-server Then I just had to modify the /etc/dhcp/dhcpd.conf the configuration file did not changed almost at all from the previous versions so I could just copy it with very small modifications. The only interesting thing in this file is how to make a server boot from the network: host X { #next-server X.X.X.1; #filename "/tftpboot/pxelinux.0"; hardware ethernet XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX; fixed-address X....
Asterisk migration from 1.2.13 to 1.4.10. Edited to Asterisk (it’s a bug’s life after reverting to 1.2.26) To the end the asterisk installation was a bit disappointing as I lost a lot of time for a stupid issue. I started optimistic with a: apt-get install asterisk and then with the migration/merging of the configuration files. My configuration was as following: IAX clients connecting to asterisk which forwards calls to a sip box connected to a phone line....
Install databases apt-get install postgresql mysql-server Migrate mysql databases # on the original machine mysqldump -A --opt --password='nemo' --allow-keywords --flush-logs --hex-blob \ --max_allowed_packet=16M --quote-names > mysql.all.dat # on the new machine mysql -u root --password=xxxx < mysql.all.dat Migrate postgresql databases # on the original machine su - postgres -c 'pg_dumpall' > pg_all.dat # on the new machine su - postgres -c 'psql' < pg_all.dat Of course you will have to migrate the databases again just before moving to production but this is to test all applications work ok....
Qmail based on qmailrocks install One of the things I missed most and disappointed me is the grave lack of a qmail package for Gutsy. I’m using Qmail since more than 5 years and I was always happy. This describes the installation based on the qmailrocks debian guide. All credits should go to the qmailrocks team. This only points some of the differences and problems I encountered on ubuntu. It’s mainly a list of commands as found on the qmailrocks site with some observations....
Since upgrading to Gutsy I could not notice that my computer was running hot and very hot all the time. But it was only when everything was so slow and hot that the Grub menu was appearing in slow motion that I decided to investigate the problem. First probable cause: cleaning the fan Unlike the I8600 the fan in the D820 is hard (see impossible) to reach. The official Dell guide shows you have to remove keyboard, hdd, display, CPU in order to reach the fan....
This describes the procedure I used to upgrade my D820 BIOS to revision A07 with no windows installed or available floppy disk. Please be WARNED that messing with your BIOS flash might render your computer unusable. This applies to Ubuntu Gutsy, Feisty, Intrepid, Lucid. Updated 14.01.2011: tested on E6410 to upgrade to revision A06. Requires a 32 bit linux to create the image. 1. Find your computer tag: # modprobe i8k # cat /proc/i8k | cut -f3 -d" " 2....
My very old plustek scanner only had windows 9x drivers so I kind of doubt it would still work on windows. On ubutu it was ridiculous easy to use it. I just had to: copy the file ccd548.fw from the scanner installation cd to /usr/share/sane/gt68xx run xsane (i run it as root even if this is not recomended). It takes a bit to warm the lamp but then it works perfectly....