Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “Patch”
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ipw2200
The ipw2200 device driver limited me to use only 11 channels for wireless LAN, even though I bought my notebook in Germany, where channels 1 to 13 may be used. Although other people on the net faced the same problem, nobody came up with a simple and permanent solution like writing the country code to the card’s EEPROM with just a few commands.
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ftp-ssl
Debian GNU/Linux contains a command line based FTP client, which has been enhanced to understand the AUTH SSL command. This is a good thing, but AUTH SSL has been superseded by AUTH TLS.
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I2C monitoring
If you write software for a badly documented or undocumented device, then it is sometimes easier to just sniff some bytes of data sent by the original software instead of using a disassembler. Milk is a great software which can be used to capture I2C traffic. To make its output more verbose I modified it to include register names where available and to calculate some stuff for the devices used in the Nokia dbox2.