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Netgear WN3000RP and iPhone

Just had a weird experience with my Netgear “Universal WiFi Range Extender WN3000RP”.

It seemed pretty evident I wouldn’t be able to automatically add it to my Airport network, so I whipped out my iPhone and quickly connected to the NETGEAR_EXT network. And I quickly got it connected to my home network. I even told it to use the same password as my home network.

And just as quickly, it was not useable. I could not connect the iPhone to the new network and when I got out an old laptop, it wasn’t working either.

So, I got out my trusty paper clip and reset the Netgear box. And this time, as I was installing, I paid more attention. The issue turned out to be a nasty interaction between the iPhone browser automatically making the first character in the data entry be upper case and the Nethgear being case sensitive for the password. I don’t know that I’ve ever encountered the case sensitivity, but maybe I’m just super cautious with that normally.

I also can’t figure out why with an unobstructed view of my Airport Extreme Base Station I’m loosing 31% connectivity and through one wall, I’m seeing 48% loss.

August 13, 2011 by Admin Hardware Macs Systems 0

Installing git on Solaris Express 11

root@gargoyle:~# pkg info -r git
Name: developer/versioning/git
Summary: git – Fast Version Control System
Description: GIT – Fast Version Control System (v1.5.6.5)
Category: Development/Source Code Management
State: Not installed
Publisher: solaris
Version: 1.5.6.5
Build Release: 5.11
Branch: 0.151.0.1
Packaging Date: Fri Nov 05 05:38:48 2010
Size: 36.29 MB
FMRI: pkg://solaris/developer/versioning/git@1.5.6.5,5.11-0.151.0.1:20101105T053848Z
root@gargoyle:~# pkg install developer/versioning/git
Packages to install: 1
Create boot environment: No
DOWNLOAD PKGS FILES XFER (MB)
Completed 1/1 257/257 10.7/10.7

PHASE ACTIONS
Install Phase 384/384

PHASE ITEMS
Package State Update Phase 1/1
Image State Update Phase 2/2

June 28, 2011 by Solaris 0

Making a patch set

Get a clone and make a new branch:

290 21:08 git clone git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/cthon04.git
291 21:08 cd cthon04
292 21:08 git branch FreeBSD
293 21:08 git checkout FreeBSD
294 21:08 git branch

Edit your files and commit the changes:

299 21:09 git commit -a

Make the patch set:


303 21:15 git format-patch --cover-letter -s -n master..FreeBSD

Edit the cover letter to document your changes:

309 21:20 vi 0000-cover-letter.patch

Send the changes:


311 21:21 git send-email --smtp-encryption=tls --smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com --smtp-user=<user>@gmail.com --smtp-server-port=587 --to "<owner>" 000*

Note, while you might use a different email address inside the cover letter, it will still go out as from the user being referenced above. I.e., use the real smtp-server if you don’t want to expose your gmail account.

Note, you might have to install git-mail to do it this way. You can mail the patch set in many different ways.

June 27, 2011 by tricks 0

VMware upgrade might blow away your networking

If you have customized your Fusion networking, be sure to make a copy of /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/networking to your home directory before upgrading.

And then copy it back and before you start up a VM, do sudo ./boot.sh –start in that directory.

June 27, 2011 by Admin Macs VM 0