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Debian’s lenny repositories are now featuring linux 2.6.26 - nice! I updated my Acer Extensa EX5620-4025 last night, but I’m still having some issues with hal and wifi. 
The mini-pci-express chip is causing kernel oops, and I have no idea how to deal with that, other than submitting the error report.
Besides these issues, I’ve been leaning a ton about pfSense, ALIX boards, and hal in general. Good stuff indeed.
I’ve been working on my portable VPN gateway, and I have to admin its been a tough nut to crack. Not only did something get screwed up with my compact flash card, but I managed to totally disable two compact flash cards. I didn’t have a compact flash card, so what was I to do?
Thankfully, the new ALIX boards can PXE boot. I did this using debian, and then downloaded the pfSense image and flashed it to the compact flash card. So far so good!
My raw notes:
Having a heck of a time with my portable wifi VPN firewall setup. Not sure if this type of thing is possible, if not, that's too bad. Infrastructure - a connection to the internet - a client to other wireless provider Ad-Hoc - a mesh node Access point - a "Server" for wireless clients === Upgrading Embedded === Had to upload file via command page, then used /tmp/filename to upgrade via the terminal. console=ttyS0,38400n8 http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/478 http://cmrg.fifthhorseman.net/wiki/embedded/alix http://linux-sxs.org/internet_serving/pxeboot.html http://www.sigsegv.cx/diskless-2.html
I’m currently reading the “Linux Networking Cookbook”, by Carla Schroder. I chose this book as I’m constantly working with networks, primarily with linux workstations and notebooks, Mac OS X desktops, as well as FreeBSD based (pfSense and m0n0wall) firewalls and routers.
While pfSense and m0n0wall make setting up a firewall and VPN pretty easy, I stil have many questions about routing, sub-netting and network architecture best practices. I hope by reading this book, I’ll gain a better understanding of how “good” networks are built, and how to avoid potential problems with an uncertain future about how a network will evolve and be used.
This was driving me crazy!! Every time I’d try and use nm-applet to configure my wireless internet with WPA, it would connect, but then be unable to save or retrieve the password afterwards. Grr! That essentially caused it not to work at all.
Thankfully, I was able to fix it. Thanks to the Ubuntu forums (Ubuntu is based off of debian), I found a solution which worked for me. I moved the keyring folder inside of ~/.gnome2/, and then tried again. It asked me for a new password, and so far so good!
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