Building OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09 from Source:

I want to use it with my Via EPIA M10000, with a 10.0GB laptop 2.5" IDE hard disk drive (HDD), 1GB Ram, and a D-Link AirPlus XtremeG DWL-G520 802.11b/g Wireless PCI card.

BTW, I recently had to replace several of the capacitors on the EPIA because they had burst! What a piece.

Anyways, the 50MB standard ext2-based openwrt image is too small for my purposes, so I am building it from source. The only part that I am having problems with is in the "make menuconfig" area, in "Target Images --->". I selected ext2, and then it wants the Filesystem part size (in MB) and the Maximum number of inodes in filesystem. I'm not sure what "Maximum number of inodes in filesystem" means, or what the significance is.

Wikipedia has some information on inodes:

Inodes store information on files, such as user and group ownership,
access mode (read, write, execute permissions) and type of file. On
many types of file systems the number of inodes available is fixed
at file system creation, limiting the maximum number of files the
file system can hold. A typical fraction of space allocated for
inodes in a file system is 1% of total size.

Alrighty then.

The only thing is that I keep getting this error on my VMWare virtual machine (Ubuntu with 1GB ram), when I run "make V=99", it quits with the following error message:

/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/staging_dir/host/bin/genext2fs -U -b 1536000 -I 190500 -d /mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/build_dir/mips/root-atheros/ /mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/build_dir/linux-atheros/root.ext2
/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/staging_dir/host/bin/genext2fs: not enough memory for filesystem
make[5]: *** [install] Error 1
make[5]: Leaving directory `/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/target/linux/atheros/image'
make[4]: *** [install] Error 2
make[4]: Leaving directory `/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/target/linux/atheros'
make[3]: *** [install] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/target/linux'
make[2]: *** [target/linux/install] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09'
make[1]: *** [/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09/staging_dir/mips/stamp/.target_install] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/20g/openwrt/8.09'
make: *** [world] Error 2

The interesting part being:
"not enough memory for filesystem"

How annoying.

I guess I'll just try to make it 1GB instead of 10.1GB.

I have collected, organized, and am now making available a decently sized list of user agents in XML format to import into the User Agent Switcher Firefox Add-on. I'll be posting updated files as appropriate.

Note: I originally started with this list.

Cheers.

Bootdisk Info Site and Other Useful Downloads

CurvyCorners breaks Google Maps embedded within an iframe of a webpage in Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 (IE7) and Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (IE8). After digging around the curvy corners code for awhile, I decided that it is time to try another approach.. I found [http://groups.google.com/group/curvycorners/browse_thread/thread/55459d9a3f940b2e# a post describing similar symptoms/issues], here is an excerpt:

"I had similar issues with curvy corners essentially stepping on my
jquery based menus as well as issues with google iframe calendars
appearing then disappearing and whole boxes (which were rounded by
curvy corners) working fine as hyperlinks in firefox and safari but
totally not working in internet explorer."

"I think it is related to when curvy corners does it's thing, when the
rounding occurs it redraws the element selectively breaking (or
overwriting) whatever is there when the page was initially created.
No problems with just text but when I got more complicated than that I
had issues."

This is exactly what I am running into! I guess I'll just ditch curvy corners for now. Bummer.

Tags:

• JavaScript
• CurvyCorners
• IE7
• IE8
• html, iframe

The Devon GTX aspires to be the new Dodge Viper. They start with a "donor" Viper but replace most of the structural components with high-end carbon fiber (CF). Badass.

All kinds of information about different kinds of capacitors. Neat!

I just stumbled across some neat articles that discuss how motherboard quality can differ as far as power/voltage regulation goes, and other neat stuff like that.

• How to Identify Japanese Electrolytic Capacitors
• Everything You Need to Know About The Motherboard Voltage Regulator Circuit
• The $10 Icom Computer Interface

Some other useful information in the world of voltage regulators, voltage rectifiers, diodes of all sorts, and semiconductors:

Definitions for anode and cathode (as in "cathode end" and "anode end":
"The anode of a device is the terminal where current flows in. The cathode of a device is the terminal where current flows out."

General guidelines/conventions for semiconductor identification (this website is ad-laced and seems kind of shitty..).

Ah, here is a better place that is helpful and comparatively superior for diode identification by looking at the diode's color banding.

Ultimately, my goal is to build my own DIY homebrew infrared receiver. This DIY infrared repeater also looks interesting.

One way to get rid of vsftpd error FAIL LOGIN:

In /etc/vstftpd.conf, uncomment the line:

pam_service_name=vsftpd

This is using a discontinued flavor of OpenSuSe

What joy! :x

keywords: vsftpd "FAIL LOGIN"

problem solution reference

define: vulcanize

(see the full article for the definition!)

After disassembling my Creative CIMR-100 Infrared Receiver, it does not appear to have much to it. A sticker saying "CIMR100 V1.0" was covering a microcontroller chip. I peeled it away to reveal a chip with the following on top of it:

ZILOG SL1925
Z86E0208PSC
9936   A1

This piece of crap doesn't even seem to work. Under linux with lircd and it's associated utilities, all signals that it picks up from the matching remote module (CREATIVE PC-DVD Remote) look the same, no matter with button I press. Oh well, it's from CREATIVE, perhaps I should not have expected it to actually work! :)

Virtual-CloneDrive seems to be the best program I have found thus far for mounting .bin/.cue files from Windows 7.

1. Go grab a copy of the hosts file from someonewhocares.org/hosts/.
2. Edit the file as desired/needed. For example, I removed the localhost and localhost.localdomain block of entries, since it is not really needed for my setup.
3. Paste the result into your OpenWRT hosts file (for me it was /etc/hosts.local).
4. Reboot the router, and you should be all set!

So, I recently updated to firefox 3.5.2 on my main desktop. After the upgrade, the activity indicator was missing from the upper right hand corner! Oh well, I was willing to attribute it to the strange toolbar layout I had on that machine. Now, after doing a few different Windows XP and Windows 7 OS reinstalls on my home theater pc, I have noticed the activity indicator is now missing from the default layout. WTF? Way to go Mozilla (you blew it).

So, after installing the XP audio drivers for my Intel D865-PERL motherboard, I got this error upon logging in to windows:

"No ADI device codec installed"

Google didn't show any results for this and win7? Hmm...

Keywords:

• Windows 7
• Windows7
• Win7