Belkin Wireless / Ralink RT61 chipset

Making this Belkin Wireless Notebook G pcmcia card working on my debian system was as easy as a walk in the park. The debian forum had a how-to which used the t2×00 Project. However, the source is now available in the latest kernel - actually from 2.6.24+. It may be somewhat “buggy”, but when I [...]

Setting correct papersize in Linux

I have struggled for a long time with the correct papersize. CUPS printer settings is set to default value A4, and /etc/papersize also is ‘a4′. However, when printing in Evince, the papersize is set to letter. Of course, I could change this manually, but why on earth was this option set as my default setting [...]

Mount remote filesystem over SSH with SSHFS

Using SSH is somewhat not easy for a newbie. To copy files over SSH, you need long commands. So, why not just mount the remote filesystem on your local computer!
Fuse is a part of the latest kernel, so you don’t need to install fuse-utils (if you’re not sure if you have fuse, run lsmod | [...]

Ricoh Aficio MP C2500 on Debian

Getting a printer to work on Linux is pretty straight forward as long as you got the correct .ppd file for the printer. I struggled a couple of days with the PostScript ppd file - when infact it was the pxlmono ppd file that did the trick for me.
First, I installed cups
sudo aptitude install cupsys [...]

Run sudo commands as normal user

I have recently installed LXDE on a Tecra 8100 which mainly is to be used by my father. He is comfortable in WinXP, and to explain the concept of sudo and to have the “why type password”-discussion, is not something he’d gain much sense about. Thus - I’d like for him to be able to [...]

Debian Lenny+LXDE on Toshiba Tecra 8100

I have succesfully installed Debian Lenny and LXDE on an P3 600MHz 300MB ram Toshiba Tecra 8100. You would not believe how fast this machine is! LXDE runs like a charm! I am stunned!
Had some trouble getting the pcmcia to work - the kernel module for the controller did not load on boot. Also some [...]

Skype in debian

To install Skype in Debian, you either need to install the deb-file manually, or update your /etc/apt/sources.list.
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free
sudo apt-get update; sudo apt-get install skype
Now, run alsamixer and turn on the capture-device you need.

Firefox 3rc1

Long time since last post - thought I’d welcome FF3rc1. They are getting there!
Installing Firefox in Debian is not as straight forward as in Ubuntu due to Iceweasel and something about copyrighted (not GNU) firefox logo (or whatever). I downloaded the source from mozilla.com and run Firefox in the directory. So it’s not really installed [...]

System beep

Jeez - how annoying that system beep is!
As root, do the following:
echo “blacklist pcspkr” >> /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
rmmod pcspkr

Remove startup-script with update-rc.d

update-rc.d is a command to set and edit the scripts within the different runtimes. For instance - when you make a script which you need to run each time you start runlevel 2 ( default in debian based systems ), you run the command:
sudo update-rc.d script default
I have had some trouble with mpd not being [...]