Mythdora 32 bit EIT

Redo from start: 10.21
Hope to go to .23
i386 instead of amd64
Use only EIT.

We welcome you to a new .....

..... viewing toy.

LG BD 570 works well to view mythtv HD (1080i) off air recordings. Wirelessly at that.

A firmware upgrade did throw a hiccup, which was worked around by going from wpa2 to wpa.

Netflix, youtube, picasa, pandora have all worked well.

Upgrade .....

In linux, as in other OSes, well meant upgrades can break things. I suspect a change in policy happened during an "upgrade".

Here are a couple of things I learnt:

RSA_public_decrypt failed: error:04067069:lib(4):func(103):reason(105)

Read: Our decryption is silly. It wont handle keys of all sizes. Try 2^n.


Authentication refused: bad ownership or modes for file /?????/????/.ssh/authorized_keys

AKA: We are silly. Though only public keys are stored here, we dont want default permissions for this file. So what if the actual keys have silly permissions.

Do you detect a note of silliness? This took me almost 3 weeks to figure out.

OpenSuSE 11.2 aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh

Usually, Opensuse is good. But on my dear A21m, with XFCE, it flunked badly. Infinite loop of first system config.

Debian 5 with LXDE works much better.

Follow up: Debian 5 Lenny WPA on A21m with TrendNet TEW-421PC and TrendNet TEW 452-BRP

I use this from a fixed location. And I use LXDE with auto-login. So I do not like NetworkManager.

Well, it only took me a week to go away from FWSE searches and read the most excellent Debian documentation instead. Kudos to Debian's documentation team, and to the Debian wiki contributors.

Big lesson: You do not need wpa_supplicant to use ndiswrapper as a driver backend. wext is sufficient.

If you want to see what is going on
ifup --verbose wlan0

The following seem necessary, even though both the card and access-point report WPA2 supported.
proto=WPA
key_mgmt=WPA-PSK

If you'd rather use Debian's /etc/network/interfaces ( just do this.... :) ):
auto wlan0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
wpa-ap-scan 2
wpa-scan-ssid 1
wpa-driver wext
wpa-ssid "your ssid"
wpa-psk all hex here
wpa-proto WPA
wpa-key-mgmt WPA-PSK

References:
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
/usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.Debian.gz (use mc or gunzip this)
http://wiki.debian.org/WiFi/HowToUse
manuals: interfaces

debian 5 wpa Trendnet wifi using ndiswrapper and wpa_supplicant

hidden ssid network

wpa_supplicant.conf

ap_scan=2

network={
  scan_ssid=1
  proto=WPA
  ssid="your ssid"
  key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
  psk=all hex here

}

wpa_supplicant v0.6.4

linux kernel 2.6.26-2-686

ndiswrapper version 1.53 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
driver mrv8335 (TRENDnet,08/22/2005,3.2.1.3) loaded

Clipboard not working in rdesktop to XP

Does remote copy and paste not work while connected to XP on stock 11.1 ?

I tried recompiling rdesktop 1.6.0 from source. Same issue.

Excerpt from documentation:

-r clipboard:[off|PRIMARYCLIPBOARD|CLIPBOARD]': enable clipboard
redirection.
'PRIMARYCLIPBOARD' looks at both PRIMARY and CLIPBOARD
when sending data to server.
'CLIPBOARD' looks at only CLIPBOARD.


Did not work:

-r clipboard:PRIMARYCLIPBOARD
-r clipboard:CLIPBOARD


Worked:

-r clipboard:PRIMARY
-r clipboard:off

Serendipitous. Also, the -f option does not really mean full screen on opensuse. The recompiled version seems to interpret this correctly.

Local copy and remote paste does not work. This was not an issue for me.