Similar Posts
Philips OV518 WebCam
ByetzionI’ve had problems with this one. Although it had a built-in module in the kernel tree, it didn’t work. I’ve had to search a bit, and even when done, new kernel required new solution. I’ve managed to locate the exact place. First, if you have a Philips webcam, OV5xx, which gives these kernel prints: drivers/usb/media/ov511.c:…
AMR Modem, failure so far
ByetzionAs my quest for a fully working laptop is advancing, I have decided to invest my time (or got drawn to it, donno why) in making the modem work. Actually, I’m stuck here. I cannot see the modem’s device in lspci, I have not isapnp devices whatsoever, so I cannot claime it’s an ISA device,…
Dell PowerEdge 1800 and Linux – Part 1
ByetzionAs part of my voluntary actions, I manage and support Israeli Amateur Radio Committee Internet server. This machine is an old poor machine, custom made about 5-7 years ago, containing Pentium2 300MHz, and 256MB RAM. It serves few hundreds of users, and you can guess for yourself how slow and miserable this machine is. After…
SunCluster, VxVM, and a system image. Sounds nice, right? No.
ByetzionDue to a customer’s problem, and due to the expensive investments in sending a person over, They’ve decided in my jot to ask the customer to send us a ufsdump of one of his SunCluster nodes, and we’ll just try to imitate his environments in our labs. Well, it is hardly as simple as this….
Linux Software Suspend (swsusp2) – Impressive Stability
ByetzionI know hibernation is cool, and I know it’s possible even under Linux, but up to now, I’ve never had it as stable and reliable as one could have expected. However, using SWSUSP2.2RC on 2.6.14.2, I am impressed. I’ve been using my laptop for the last week or so, ever since I’ve discovered the problem…
Things to remember…
ByetzionAs my work takes me to various places (where technology is concerned), I collect lots of browser tab of things I want to keep for later reference. I have to admit, sadly, that I lack the time to sort them out, to make a real good and nice post about them. I do not want…

