Dell PowerEdge 1750 Wake On LAN on Gentoo/Funtoo Linux
May 24, 2012 · BCM5704 dell poweredge Linux poweredge 1750 tg3 wake on lan wolAfter my previous entry about my PowerEdge 1750 , I’ve been trying to get Wake-On-LAN working. On every other machine I own, it simply involves at most activating WOL in the BIOS, then running ‘ethtool -s eth0 wol g’ on boot, but the PowerEdge 1750 with the “Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet” …
Read MoreUpgrading Dell ESM firmware on an unsupported OS
May 20, 2012 · bios upgrade dell poweredge esm upgrade Linux poweredge 1750I recently received a free Dell Poweredge 1750 from work ( they were having a clearout of old hardware and I grabbed it first ), and naturally the first thing I installed was Funtoo ( essentially it’s an experimental version of Gentoo ) .
Installation worked fine, but the only problem I have is the server is quite …
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May 11, 2012 · compile error Gentoo pulseaudioWhile attempting to upgrade one of my Gentoo Linux machines to the latest version of PulseAudio ( media-sound/pulseaudio-2.0 ) today I encountered the following error:
Read MoreConverting a VirtualBox VM to an EC2 AMI
Sep 24, 2011 · amazon ec2 Linux virtualboxThere are many ways to create a new AMI for use with Amazon EC2, the best solution is to simulate EC2 with a local Xen install, however this sometimes isn’t possible, so the next best thing is to create a VirtualBox based VM, then generate an EC2 AMI from it .
Read More- I’ve been looking at cloning ( or somehow maintaining synced ) file-systems between multiple servers, and after looking at other solutions ( regular rsyncs, inotify etc ), a clustered file-system seems to be the best solution. GlusterFS looks to be a popular Open Source based solution, however there doesn’t seem to be …
Read More - I’ve recently been testing out a VPN service, and normally while running the VPN, all internet traffic goes over the VPN interface. This isn’t really ideal, as I only want traffic from specific applications to use the VPN. IPTables doesn’t seem to have the option to filter specific processes, but it can filter based on …
Read More - I have logrotate running on my virtual servers ( both local and Amazon EC2 based ) and configured to send myself all log files by email daily. They are all running virtually the same configuration, and this makes it difficult to work out which log file is tied to which machine. The simplest way to fix this, is to …
Read More - After publishing my previous post on Setting up a HP LaserJet P1102w Printer on Gentoo , I’ve noticed that I seem to be getting a lot of visitors searching for how to setup the same printer under Ubuntu, so decided to write a guide specific to Ubuntu.
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