WiFi Adapter “Siemens Gigaset USB Adapter 54″ on Arch Linux ARM / Raspberry Pi
I have the Siemens Gigaset USB Adapter 54 v2 with a Prism54 chipset. It has the USB vendor/product ID 083a:4521: Bus 001 Device 008: ID 083a:4521 Accton Technology Corp. Siemens S30863-S1016-R107-2...
View ArticleUsing the Raspberry Pi Camera Board on Arch Linux ARM
Update 2014-01-14: There is now a completely Python-based camera-interface for you to work with: picamera Preparations Add /opt/vc/bin to your $PATH: # To add /opt/vc/bin temporarily to your $PATH:...
View ArticleArch Linux – Deploying a Pure Python Web App
Deploying a web app written in Python is not always easy. Here are a couple of easy steps to get it done on Arch Linux. These steps are not a perfect tutorial if you want to go for high traffic sites....
View ArticleSolving NAK DHCP Problems with the Fritz!BOX 7490 router
If you encounter problems like these: dhcpcd[13577]: eth0: broadcasting for a lease dhcpcd[13577]: eth0: offered 192.168.1.64 from 192.168.1.1 dhcpcd[13577]: eth0: reject NAK via 192.168.1.1 Online you...
View ArticleEnabling Wake on Lan on an Arch Linux Computer
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wake-on-LAN ip addr su ethtool enp1s0f0 ethtool enp1s0f1 ethtool -s enp1s0f0 wol g ethtool enp1s0f0 What the g or the other options mean is stated here (source): p...
View ArticleSetting up a Raspberry Pi with Auto-Timelapse Recording
This blog post is still in the makes, you can, however, already take advantage of the pretty content available so far. Install Arch Linux ARM on SD Card (get the image from here) Plug SD card into RPi,...
View ArticleHosted Raspberry Pi at PCExtreme – Reinstalled with Arch Linux ARM
This is a follow up post for that one: Hosted Raspberry Pi at PCExtreme – Reinstalled with Raspbian. I crashed my original OS and asked the kind people at PCExtreme to reinstall my RPi. They did and...
View ArticleSetting up Python venvs on Arch Linux ARM
Since Python 3.3 venv is a module found in the standard library of Python. It can replace virtualenv / virtualenvwrapper. Creating a virtual environment is as simple as this: python3 -m venv...
View ArticleImproving the Speed of Software Raid on Linux (Read/Write/Resync)
Speeding up the write access of a RAID array echo 32768 > /sys/block/md0/md/stripe_cache_size Source: Stackoverflow Speeding up RAID1 array rebuild With echo 50000 >...
View ArticleChecking ECC RAM with Linux
Using dmidecode: dmidecode -t memory | grep 'Physical Memory Array' -A7 Using ecc_check.c (source): wget -O ecc_check.c http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=URExZi29 gcc ecc_check.c -o ecc_check ./ecc_check...
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