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]]> Comment on vpnc: no response from target finally solved: AuthType=5 by Sam Cook http://linos.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/vpnc-instead-of-ciscos-vpnclient-authtype5/#comment-77 Sam Cook Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:28:14 +0000 http://linos.wordpress.com/2007/11/23/vpnc-instead-of-ciscos-vpnclient-authtype5/#comment-77 Thanks for the help! this has taken me at least 4 hours of frustrated battling with my laptop and you helped save me! just so you now this method works on ubuntu ibex. this script: http://svn.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/vpnc/trunk/pcf2vpnc is very helpful for moving pcf files to vpnc conf files - if you have encrypted group passwords etc this page: http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode?enc=&.submit=decode! will decode them rather than installing the cisco decrypter package hope this helps! Thanks for the help!

this has taken me at least 4 hours of frustrated battling with my laptop and you helped save me!

just so you now this method works on ubuntu ibex.
this script:
http://svn.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/vpnc/trunk/pcf2vpnc
is very helpful for moving pcf files to vpnc conf files – if you have encrypted group passwords etc this page:
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/bin/cisco-decode?enc=&.submit=decode!
will decode them rather than installing the cisco decrypter package

hope this helps!

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]]> Comment on Hardy on a Fujitsu Lifebook E8410 by nubbler http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/hardy-on-a-fujitsu-lifebook-e8410/#comment-73 nubbler Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:57:08 +0000 http://linos.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-73 1st: At my E8410 (nvidia, newest BIOS) CPU Speedstepping works fine. Try a BIOS update. If this don't help, you can try a hack from the E8310: Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the defoptions-line: # defoptions=quiet splash acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" after this sudo update-grub 2nd: Some Websites said that Brightness should work with the Kernel-Modul: sudo modprobe fujitsu-laptop i can read the Brightness with cat /sys/class/backlight/fujitsu-laptop/actual_brightness and change it with Fn + F6/F7 but the Brightness from the LCD never change...can u trie it? Sorry for the bad englisch ;-) 1st:
At my E8410 (nvidia, newest BIOS) CPU Speedstepping works fine. Try a BIOS update. If this don’t help, you can try a hack from the E8310:
Edit /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the defoptions-line:

# defoptions=quiet splash acpi_osi=”!Windows 2006″

after this

sudo update-grub

2nd:
Some Websites said that Brightness should work with the Kernel-Modul:

sudo modprobe fujitsu-laptop

i can read the Brightness with

cat /sys/class/backlight/fujitsu-laptop/actual_brightness

and change it with

Fn + F6/F7

but the Brightness from the LCD never change…can u trie it?

Sorry for the bad englisch ;-)

]]> Comment on Intel Core Duo / Santa Rosa: Fan always at max. speed until nvidia-glx-new was installed by nubbler http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/05/17/intel-core-duo-santa-rosa-fan-always-at-max-speed-until-nvidia-glx-new-was-installed/#comment-72 nubbler Mon, 21 Jul 2008 10:00:39 +0000 http://linos.wordpress.com/?p=15#comment-72 Hi, Same here at my E8410, CPU-Temp always say´s 27°C. I have never tried it without the nvidia-glx-new. Hi,
Same here at my E8410, CPU-Temp always say´s 27°C. I have never tried it without the nvidia-glx-new.

]]> Comment on Hard disk failure: Additional sense: Unrecovered read error – auto reallocate failed by Olli Salli http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hard-disk-failure-additional-sense-unrecovered-read-error-auto-reallocate-failed/#comment-71 Olli Salli Thu, 17 Jul 2008 19:11:27 +0000 http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/01/15/hard-disk-failure-additional-sense-unrecovered-read-error-auto-reallocate-failed/#comment-71 You should use the -p (preserve permissions) flag to tar in these kinds of use cases exactly of this reason ;) I found your blog entry by googling for similar error messages I'm now getting from my laptop. However, it's still running... somewhat. Disk I/O hangs for a few seconds once in every 5-10 minutes or so and dmesg gets appended with a few disk errors like yours. Currently doing backup of /home first, then if I can get there, full / ... time to call Lenovo for a replacement HDD in any case, I guess. You should use the -p (preserve permissions) flag to tar in these kinds of use cases exactly of this reason ;)

I found your blog entry by googling for similar error messages I’m now getting from my laptop. However, it’s still running… somewhat. Disk I/O hangs for a few seconds once in every 5-10 minutes or so and dmesg gets appended with a few disk errors like yours. Currently doing backup of /home first, then if I can get there, full / … time to call Lenovo for a replacement HDD in any case, I guess.

]]> Comment on Hardy on a Fujitsu Lifebook E8410 by linos http://linos.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/hardy-on-a-fujitsu-lifebook-e8410/#comment-67 linos Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:19:36 +0000 http://linos.wordpress.com/?p=12#comment-67 Sebastian, what firmware are you running ? Gerd Sebastian,

what firmware are you running ?

Gerd

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