Archive for the ‘SuSE/Novell’ Category

Setup for 3G/UMTS flatrate of german 1und1/1&1

Friday, May 8th, 2009

I finally now got a 3G/UMTS (HSDPA) internet flatrate at the german provider 1und1/1&1. There seem to be two setups that work for the connection and that are accounted correctly (as flatrate use). The first one is a 1und1 special setup that only gives you limited internet access (e.g. you cannot ping any machine in the internet). The second one – which i preferr – is the usual setup for german D2/Vodafone network:

APN: web.vodafone.de
Username: vodafone
Password: vodafone

Just for completeness the 1und1 special configs are:

APN: mail.partner.de
Username: D2
Password: Web

You can also find all those data on the providers homepages, but you have to dig quite deep until you find them. So hopefully this is of use for some future users.

openSuSE 11.0 and Samsung Q45 with Intel Gfx

Thursday, September 11th, 2008

Just a short note on my Samsung Q45 i’m currently using. It needs some ugly workarounds so one can use it correctly. (more…)

MMC cards on Ricoh internal cardreader RL5c476

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

If your notebook has a Ricoh RL5c476 controller which also provides the MMC host adapter R5C843 you got quite some trouble getting access to real MMC memorycards with the internel cardreader. But already since upstream kernel 2.6.25-rc1 there is patch from me included that’ll solve this problem for you by extending the ricoh_mmc driver accordingly.
Should you still encounter problems with mmc cards on this controller i’ll be very happy to get some feedback from you.

Nozomi (UMTS/3G) driver improved

Sunday, April 6th, 2008

The nozomi driver in the upstream kernel in the meantime got some nice improvements. Especially a patch from me (available since 2.6.25-rc6) fixed a stability problem when accessing the card extremely early after insertion (e.g. when doing constant polling on /dev/noz* devices). The driver now contains a simple state management allowing access not until the card is really ready for it.
Since this change i consider the driver to be extremely stable. I wasn’t able to trigger any problems with it on a lot of very cruel tests. If any of you still sees problems with your nozomi card, please let me know it!

A week in Prague

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Last week i had a fantastic business trip to Prague (capital of Czech Republic). I really got a hell of a lot out of it in so many ways this blog wouldn’t last out for. But i want to thank Lars, Greg, Jeff, Nat, Lucie and all who made this fantastic thing possible! Thank you so much for this great opportunity!

Of course i also had recreational events that were really nice. Let me tell you that Prague is a very beautiful city and always worth a visit. Beyond even the surrounding area was really awesome and very recommendable for a trip.

FOSDEM 2007

Sunday, March 4th, 2007

Besides the quite bad press at german newsticker heise.de (http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/85889) i found it very good. There were a lot of really good and intersting talks/presentations and a lot of interesting people from opensource projects to talk to.

FOSDEM 2007

But of course we (our group from openSUSE) also had a little adventure at the airport of brussel. Right after our arrival there a bomb alert took place.. (newsticker report).

Meet me at FOSDEM

Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Some of you might also attend this years FOSDEM in Brussels. If you’re not afraid of .. you can meet me there at the openSUSE booth (probably on Saturday between 12:00 and 14:00 o’clock localtime).

At SuSE Labs Conference 2006

Wednesday, September 13th, 2006

This week i’m at the SuSE Labs Conference 2006 (this time in Harrachov/Czechia) and hope to meet many great linux kernel developers and have some very good discussions there.
As i am now very much focused on mobile devices under linux (especially power management, internal cardreaders etc.) this is a very good chance to get things in this area better working.

Powersave rocks!

Thursday, August 17th, 2006

Hi, I recently release a new version of powersave (a linux powersave-framework) on sourceforge. Please download and try it.