The goal was to setup a server that allowed authenticated users access to a VPN. Here are the important bits from server configuration:
port 1194proto udpdev tundh dh1024.pem server 10.8.0.0 255.255.255.0 ifconfig-pool-persist...
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Most of the hardware on the Lenovo Thinkpad X61s works with the Debian standard kernel. The few things that require a bit of tweaking are described here.
Supported Hardware Components
CPU: Intel LV7500 Core2 Duo, 1.6 Ghz....
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After failing to get Ekiga or Kphone working with sipgate.de I have finally found a VOIP application for Linux that works with sipgate.de. Twinkle can be installed with apt-get in Debian/unstable and is straight forward to setup....
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I recently got an AVM Fritz!Box and I was curious how much effort it would take to extend the Linux system running on the box. I had no incentive to replace the original firmware by a completely different image since it does...
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Konqueror would not play wmv videos with the mime type application/x-mplayer2 on my Debian system so I manually added the mime type to konqueror’s file associations which fixed the problem.
Here is a screenshot of the...
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Felix pointed out to me that after doing a dist-upgrade Firefox wouldn't work with artsdsp so flash plugins couldn't produce any sound. The solution is to edit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and set:
FIREFOX_DSP="auto"
For more details...
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While trying to import my CACert certificate on my laptop into Kleopatra I encountered a few misleading error messages. I have collected the messages like General error and noted how I work around them.
Generally speaking,...
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I wish I could read S/MIME encrypted mails received from Thunderbird users with KMail but unfortunately gpgsm which is used by KMail does not support RC2 encryption - the algorithm Thunderbird encrypts mails with. Looking at...
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Today I wasn’t able to access my scanner with xsane as a user (that belongs to group scanner) anymore. Checking the permissions in /proc/bus/usb revealed that the permission configuration of hotplugd had not set the group to...
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Since I had some difficulties getting my CACert certificate integrated with KMail on Debian unstable, I wanted to share the steps I took in order to get email encryption and singing up and running. Basically you need to run...
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A simple script that converts procmail filter rules to kmail filter rules. The script will kill all your existing filter rules! Use at your own risk.
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Prepare a .procmail file that sorts mail into the desired Maildir folders and run this command for each mbox file:
cat /var/mail/mbox | formail -ds procmail
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nsc-ircc-pc8738x.diff adds support for the PC8738x IrDA chip that is used on my IBM Thinkpad X40. So far only SIR mode (115 kbit) has been successfully tested.
Update: Merged into the kernel since 2.6.12-rc1.
nsc-ircc-pnp.diff...
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There are plenty of pages on the Internet that describe in detail how to setup Linux on an IBM Thinkpad X40. Google is your friend. I have only listed things here that I to my knowledge have not been described elsewhere.
All...
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mingw32-debian-package-ada-lanuage-support-3.3.1.20030804.1-1.diff enhances the Debian mingw32 package with support for Ada. Run 'apt-get source mingw32', apply the patch and see debian/rules on how to enable Ada support.
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