HOWTO – Another Sound Fix in Kubuntu 7.10…

I occasionally get sound system error messages from arts, usually fatal, that the system cannot be started, or some such nonsense. Usually after a Flash website is left loaded in a browser for a long time, or many games have been played over time by one of the kids.
I finally did a quick search [...]

HOWTO (Repost) – Vanilla Kernel 2.6.24.2, VMware Server, and Kubuntu 7.10…

Since my article on rolling a vanilla kernel on Kubuntu (HOWTO – Vanilla Kernel 2.6.23.1 on Gutsy Gibbon…) has gotten most of the visits lately, I thought I would report it updated for kernel 2.6.24.2, with a couple minor changes, and I included some VMware steps as well. Hopefully, this is a little easier [...]

Ubuntu Forum Article – HOWTO: Wireless Security – WPA1, WPA2, LEAP, etc…

Found this while mindlessly surfing around – this is a very good read if you are troubleshooting wireless on Ubuntu (or Linux in general).
Here is the link – HOWTO: Wireless Security – WPA1, WPA2, LEAP, etc.
Hope this helps!

Howto – Troubleshooting Sound in Kubuntu…

Mentioned in an earlier post was a problem I was having with sound. I have two sound cards, both recognized well by Kubuntu 7.10. One is onboard – a VIA VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60). The other is a PCI card from C-Media – a CM8738 (rev 10), and is the [...]

Howto – Blacklisting Modules in Kubuntu…

I was having some trouble with my default sound card selection and wireless modules (Broadcom bcm43xx) that were  complaining.  Since I am not using wireless on this, I decided to do some spring-cleaning (it’s never too early) and pull those and other modules I am not using.  For this, I went into the blacklist file [...]

VMware-any-any-update116…

Found it – Peter Velichkov has a link on his blog. After updating to kernel 2.6.24.2 (which worked fine), I ran the script (runme.pl) and fired up VMware Server. It seemed to work fine, with no real issues, even after rebooting the VM, other than being a little sluggish, however.
To fix this, I [...]

Security Vulnerability with Kernel 2.6.24.1?

After catching site of a story on SANS – see this link – and reading the linked articles, I could not tell if kernel version 2.6.24.1 was vulnerable or not – the wording is a little ambiguous. Reading the changelog for 2.6.24.2 indicated a fix for a pointer issue, which *looks* related to the [...]