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Friday, June 10, 2011

V-Moda Remix Remote Headphones and Droid X compatibility

http://v-moda.com/compatibility/

http://www.v-moda.com/headphones/remix.aspx

Basically, just know that the V-Moda Remix Remote headphones do not work with the Droid X other than as headphones. The microphone does not work at all. So don’t buy them unless you’re using an iPhone.

posted by Jason Young at 5:52 pm  

Tuesday, May 31, 2011

VNC in Ubuntu 11.04 Fix

Vino, the VNC server that’s set up by default in Ubuntu 11.04, has a huge problem: it doesn’t refresh after the initial login. You can click and type and it’ll register, but it won’t actually redraw the screen. The following post has the solution:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=10775950&postcount=13

posted by Jason Young at 2:44 pm  

Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Lenovo Ideapad Z565 running Ubuntu 10.04

I’ll start out with this: Do not try to make this work unless you’re into pain.

So basically there are three problems with this

1) The touchpad doesn’t work. Evidently, this post seems to solve that problem (but I never got that far)

2) The wireless doesn’t work. It runs on a Broadcom BCM4313 (rev 01) chipset which isn’t built into 10.04 LTS. Another Ubuntu Forums post details a way to solve this, involving compiling some new kernel drivers, however….

3) The ethernet doesn’t work either. To get it working, all you have to do is compile another kernel driver.

So you would have to download all of the necessary packages and source, then go from there. Have fun.

posted by Jason Young at 7:19 pm  

Monday, May 16, 2011

Digimesh Connectport X2B in TCP/UDP server mode

So, my boss recently bought a Connectport X2B for me to develop with. I wanted to use the feature for forwarding via TCP, but saw absolutely nothing regarding that in the interface. So, after about a day of digging, I found the following link (and, more importantly, the implications of it): ConnectPort X2 – 802.15.4.

On that page are different firmwares. It turns out that my ConnectPort was loaded with 82002161_B2.bin firmware. This would be fine, except I wanted the ConnectPort to forward my packets for me. It turns out that, from there, I needed to actually use 82002162_B2.bin to give my ConnectPort the appropriate software. Okay, but no big deal. All would be fine after that! All I had to do would be throw it into TCP or UDP server mode and away I would go.

Incorrect. While setting up the TCP server options I came across this help page:

Help page for ConnectPort showing TCP Server

Help page for ConnectPort showing TCP Server

This would be extremely helpful, except for the tiny fact that the feature was removed from the web interface and never removed from the documentation. This seems to be the story of the Digi documentation. It is either incorrect or misleading, which can be incredibly frustrating. Not that I’m frustrated.

Anyhow, it turns out that, at this point, you have to revert to the terminal help documentation to get from there. Ignoring the fact that their terminal doesn’t support the traditional backspace (gotta ^H it) and is slower than anything I’ve used since the third grade, it actually provides a useful interface to the device. Looking at the commands set autoconnect for TCP server settings and set udpserial for UDP server settings makes it work.

Or, at least in the case of UDP, ‘kinda’ makes it work. I currently have a situation where it seems to be dropping two bytes every packet when it sends me the data over UDP, so I’ll be talking to Digi about it today….

posted by Jason Young at 7:44 am  

Thursday, May 12, 2011

Digimesh Realport for Windows 7 x64

For some reason, the version of Realport included on the CDs won’t work. Instead, you have to download it from their site:
http://ftp1.digi.com/support/driver/40002549_e.zip
Once you download that, run the Setup64.exe
Link obtained from
http://forums.digi.com/support/forum/viewthread_thread,7603

posted by Jason Young at 7:04 am  
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