Automatically reconnect sshfs
Posted: 2020-06-10 Filed under: system | Tags: reconnect, ssh, sshfs, thunar Leave a commentI’ve been using sshfs to mount a remote folder between computers in my home networks. Sometimes I switch from WiFi to wired connection or the other way around. This causes Thunar to freeze, if I had forgotten to unmount the remote folder. Which I almost always forget to do and it becomes quite annoying.
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Copying MBR
Posted: 2020-04-30 Filed under: system | Tags: clone, dd, disk, mbr, partition Leave a commentI’ve been doing some disk partitions cloning between disks of different size. I needed to copy the master boot record (MBR), where LILO is, from one disk to another. I searched a bit and found a handy tutorial.
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Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 not responding
Posted: 2020-03-29 Filed under: network, system | Tags: Centrino, intel, iwlmvm, iwlwifi, kernel, module, option, Ultimate-N 6300, wifi Leave a commentI have a ThinkPad T420, which comes with an Intel Corporation Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 wireless adapter. The card is recognised out of the box, and it connects to my home WiFi. There are two kernel modules loaded: iwlmvm and iwlwifi. Typically, after a minute or two the internet connection becomes so slow that it is virtually lost. I am running Slackware64 14.2 with kernel 4.4.217. It seems I finally found a solution in the Ubuntu forums.
VESA framebuffer
Posted: 2020-02-02 Filed under: system | Tags: boot, elilo.conf, nvidia, vesa Leave a commentI never really cared about VESA framebuffer. Since Slackware 13.0, the system would automatically switch to the native screen resolution when booting. That is, if I used the open source video drivers. When using the proprietary drivers of NVIDIA for example, the system will boot into the default low resolution console. I do not particularly like that, so I decided to investigate the options.
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Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 driver
Posted: 2020-01-26 Filed under: system | Tags: ATA, ATA 300, ATA 600, BCM4322, broadcom, dell, e6400, latitude, sataii, sataiii, SSD 1 CommentI bought a refurbished Dell Latitude E6400. After changing the hard disk to a new SSD, I installed (of course) Slackware64 14.2 on it. Everything went fine, but the WiFi was not supported out-of-the-box. However, there was a very easy solution.
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