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Apple Magic Trackpad in Linux

Posted 08-18-2013 at 08:09 PM by vik
Updated 08-18-2013 at 08:49 PM by vik

Here's the little tweaks I applied to my Apple Magic Trackpad. It doesn't come with a bluetooth dongle so if your motherboard doesn't have bluetooth support you will have to buy a dongle.

Create a file under /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d called 60apple-magic-trackpad.conf. If you don't have an xorg.conf.d directory, create one.

Code:

Section "InputClass"
   Identifier        "Apple Magic Trackpad"
   Driver            "synaptics"

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Configuring pam_pkcs11 smart card logins for Gentoo 64-bit Linux

Posted 07-07-2013 at 12:23 AM by vik
Updated 04-06-2014 at 09:17 PM by vik (Updated howto with pam_pkcs11 support)

If you want to look for compatible smart card readers, check http://wiki.debian.org/Smartcards. For smart cards compatible with opensc, check https://github.com/OpenSC/OpenSC/wik...-USB-tokens%29. You may choose to utilize proprietary smart cards, but this guide only covers opensc-compatible ones.

The majority of the information I used can be found at http://www.gooze.eu and https://github.com/OpenSC/pam_pkcs11/wiki. I ended up purchasing Athena...

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Neverwinter Online with wine 64-bit 1.6-rc4

Posted 07-04-2013 at 02:51 AM by vik
Updated 07-07-2013 at 12:44 AM by vik

Background: this is for a 64-bit linux system with alsa installed and no pulseaudio. Derived from: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=78390 and http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManage...estingId=78500 with a few tweaks for my setup.

Download Neverwinter Online.
We can't use 64-bit with a 32-bit compatibility layer (WoW) in this case as winetricks won't install ie8 correctly, so we force a 32-bit wine.

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hplip error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12)

Posted 12-18-2012 at 11:00 PM by vik
Updated 07-06-2013 at 11:16 AM by vik

I have a wireless networked HP printer and was getting this error: Unable to communicate with device (code=12). I ran hp-check, hp-setup, hp-plugin, etc. After a few days' worth of frustration, I've figured it out.

The key was this: http://hplipopensource.com/node/216
So after running

Code:

snmpwalk -Os -c public -v 1 ip.address.of.printer 1.3.6.1.4.1.11.2.3.9.1.1.7.0

I got this message: Timeout: No Response from ip.address.of.printer

Then I remembered...

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Linksys WMP600N wireless N ethernet card in Linux...it does work

Posted 05-09-2012 at 03:48 AM by vik
Updated 08-28-2013 at 10:45 AM by vik

Update: with kernel 3.9.11 I've had good luck with rt2800pci (driver in the Linux kernel) instead of Broadcom's rt2860sta driver. I can also connect to 5GHz networks with this driver.

If you can't/don't want to update your kernel to a later version, here are your options:

Stay with the same kernel version and utilize backports to use a newer driver with an older kernel. This is the new name for compat-wireless. See here: https://backports.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page.
Download

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