Recently I’ve bought a Digicom ADSL WiFi router (RAW304G) with USB… Just to find out that you can’t attach a USB external HDD… Not enough current provided by the USB port ! WTF?!
Let’s change this…
All the details are given here in my dokuwiki.
Result: a 2TB NAS from a 30€ router. Awesome !
While working with the USB-stick version of Linux Mint 17, the WiFi stopped to work once the OS installed…
I tried to load manually the ath9k module:
sudo modprobe ath9kbut all I could get was the following error:
modprobe: ERROR: ../libkmod/libkmod.c:556 kmod_search_moddep() could not open moddep file '/lib/modules/3.13.0-43-generic/modules.dep.bin'SOLUTION: Reinstall or install the corresponding linux-image and reboot…
sudo apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-3.13.0-43The video performances of my Aspire 4810T were disappointing… I couldn’t watch a small Youtube video without experiencing lags and overheating… Not even in full screen… WTF?!
So I decided to pass to proprietary drivers, no matter what. This is how:
After this, the graphical interface didn’t work (a bad fglrx: No matching Device section for instance (BusID PCI:0@0:1:1) at boot-up)… This is because there is one more step to do (which is not present in the aforementioned guide):
in the BIOS, the option Switchable graphic needs to be set to Discrete
After that, it worked !
This is a solution to SD mounting problems of a Realtek RTS5209 card read.
This affects my new Sony Vaio (SVE151G) with Linux Mint 15 but the solution can be extended to other operating systems/PCs (Ubuntu for example, and some HP notebooks).
Basically, when a SD card is inserted nothing happens… The device is not mounted and DMESG command says something like:
“mmc0: error -110 whilst initialising SD card”
This is how I solved the problem… :
A friend of mine bought this vintage keyboard: a Farfisa Matador (Mod. 611-E) coming directly from the ’70s. By the way the seller forgot to mention that, despite being very well conserved on the outside, it produced a strong and unpleasant hiss that made it almost unusable; it sounded like a out-of-tune chord, so the guy said it was just some dirt under the keys. False…
So I had the honour to put my hands inside this beautiful keyboard. I want to share this experience with you posting some photos I made during the troubleshoot process (se serve una traduzione in italiano chiedete nei commenti).
An overview of the Farfisa family can be found at combo-organ.com, luckily the schematics are available as well: Farfisa.org.
In the past I already tested a nice boost circuit that allows us to power a 3 V LED with a discharged battery (around 1 V or less). This circuit uses just one transistor, one resistor and a small transformer (1:1 ratio) and it is better known, at least on the internet, under the name of “Joule Thief”.
The theory behind this circuit seems to be obscure as we can find lot of comments and questions like: “can I add turns ?”, “can I increase the resistor ?”, “will it work with two batteries ?” and so on…
I decided to figure out the working mechanism of this smart circuit in order to understand the rules behind it and try to improve the efficiency. I’ll carry out a theoretical analysis, supported by some scope screen-shots.
Mosquitoes are the plague of the summer time. Luckily ultrasounds can help against them. Why don’t developing an ultrasounds generator with the LaunchPad ? A quite easy task…
I wanted to create a 9600 asynchronous serial connection with my TI LaunchPad.
I started my development from the source code of the example program that I found in it (temp. sensor with serial connection and leds modulation) but I wanted three more things: a faster link (9600 which is four times greater), a mspgcc4 compatibility (the free-software compiler that I’m using) and a CPU working at 16 MHz (instead of 1 MHz of the example).
The task is not very difficult and I carried it in a completely free environment (Ubuntu + MSPGCC + mspDebug).
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Nel mio nuovo portatile Acer Aspire 4810T, ho constatato che il microfono integrato funzionava con il registratore di suoni ma non funzionava con Skype.
Ciò è dovuto al fatto che Skype ritiene che sia un microfono stereo e, nel tentativo di rimuovere il rumore, fa la differenza dei 2 canali arrivando così ad annullare il segnale.
La soluzione è installare un mixer per PulseAudio
sudo apt-get install pavucontrol
e, una volta avviato, modificare i livelli audio del microfono, andando ad abbassare a livello 0 uno dei 2 canali.
Nelle impostazioni Skype, inoltre, va inibito l’auto-settaggio dei volumi.
Quando si studia una nuova lingua, può capitare di avere a che fare con lettere o accenti particolari, non presenti nella lingua natia e, più gravemente, nemmeno nella tastiera…
Esattamente ciò che mi è successo studiando francese: nella tastiera italiana non ci sono “ê” or “â”…
Fortunatamente ho trovato una soluzione estremamente comoda…
Daino è, chi il Daino fa 