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Using a cellphone as a GPRS modem in Ubuntu (8.04)

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

We're using a LG KC 910 Renoir. Connect the phone to your computer over the USB cable. Accept the connection in "PC Suite" mode or something similar (that is: not as a mass storage device). Make sure you have the wvdial package installed. Then type: sudo wvdialconf /etc/wvdial.conf The device (e.g. ttyACM0) will be ...

Bypassing a cranky BIOS: boot from CDROM

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

After a major crash of our Acer Aspire 1642 the hard disk needed to be replaced. After booting from a life CD we successfully installed Ubuntu Gutsy on the new drive. Unfortunately, after reboot the BIOS appeared to be completely blind to it. A BIOS upgrade would not fix the ...

Pinnacle PCTV USB2 on Suse 10.x

Wednesday, June 4th, 2008

Retrieved from the old wiki: To get the Pinnacle USB2 device working you'll need the kernel module for the em28xx chipset. This module is not included in the Suse distribution, so obtain the video4linux package v4l-dvb from linuxtv.org. Note: You do not need the usbvision package. It only supports USB1. The sources of ...