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I’ve bought a GPS device for use during treking and cycling. Since the choice is rather limited here where most of the GPS devices are car dedicated I’ve ended up with a Garmin eTrex legend HCx. Connecting Upon connection my Ubuntu syslog shows: Sep 7 15:53:47 black kernel: [16333.973603] usb 3-1: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 Sep 7 15:53:47 black kernel: [16334.117759] usb 3-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice Sep 7 15:53:47 black NetworkManager: <debug> [1220792027....

I can only say good things about the ease to fetch photos from a digital camera in ubuntu now but the F-Spot interface is completely dummy. I can’t understand any good reason to use it. In order to revert to the old gutsy photo import option here are the steps: apt-get install gthumb go to System -> Preferences -> Removable drives and media -> Cameras and remove the f-spot-import with...

Taking advantage of the free easter days I decided that between sleeping and cooking to also try the new Hardy Heron: not wanting to take any risks as in the painful Gutsy update I did a clean install on a different partition I tried the data migration option (gaim, evolution, firefox) but it only imported partial configuration and no data. I reverted to the old method...

Updated 22-03-2008: fixed broken link. After the tragic death of my T630 phone I have bought a new Sony Ericsson K550i to replace it. The old phone worked quite ok with linux but I was very pleased by how quick I was able to make this new one work with my Ubuntu Gutsy. Synchronization I managed to establish a bluetooth connection with no trouble using the same method described here using multisync....

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....

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....