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Intel 82801DB AC’97 audio controller issue

Ralph — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:23:00 +0000

So Nietzsche and Camus both use this Intel audio driver. Alsa messes up the audio for some reason and there is no sound.

I found a fix though: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2005-January/msg05487.html

Basically, all you have to do is open up a terminal and run this:

alsamixer

You can switch between the things using the left and right arrows. Press m to mute or unmute it.

In addition to muting the headphone jack and line jack, I muted the external. If that doesn’t work for you, just mess around muting and unmuting stuff.

Nietzsche: VPN Server

Ralph — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:39:00 +0000

Nietzsche is up and running as a VPN server!

I used pptpd. Nietzsche is running Xubuntu Hardy Heron.

Install

sudo apt-get install pptpd

Add Users

sudo vim /etc/ppp/chap-secrets

The format is:

username pptpd password

Edit pptpd.conf

sudo vim /etc/pptpd.conf

Add lines similar to these

localip 192.168.1.72

remoteip 192.168.1.200-253

localip is the IP for the VPN server. remoteip are the IPs that will be given to the VPN clients. I'm using unused IPs.

Edit pptpd-options

sudo vim /etc/ppp/pptpd-options

Uncomment #ms-dns 10.0.0.1. Change 10.0.0.1 to your DNS server or router

Edit sysctl

sudo vim /etc/sysctl.conf

Add the following lines

net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1

Restart

sudo /etc/init.d/pptpd restart

Your server should be up and running.

Hostname Issues

Ralph — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:46:00 +0000

As you know, I’ve been making a home network. The task itself isn’t too complicated, but there have been little annoying things here and there.

For some reason, the hostnames of about every computer were being forgotten by my 2wire router. This is bad because I named my computers for a reason! I didn’t want to memorize IP addresses. The IPs weren’t hard to remember. Its just that memorizing an arbitrary number to a computer that does specific things is hard.

I couldn’t ssh into the servers easily, because I’d have to look up the IP each time rather than just typing in the hostname.

It was a simple fix!

You just have to edit dhclient.conf

sudo vim /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf

Insert this line

send host-name "yourhostname";

Restart the DHCP daemon
I used this command for Hardy Heron

sudo /etc/init.d/dhcdbd restart

I used this command for Jaunty Jackalope

sudo /etc/init.d/dbus restart

Your computer should now tell your router its hostname!

On Soulseek & Nicotine

Ralph — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 10:25:00 +0000

Soulseek is my favorite application to download music. It’s got a nice community behind it and the amount of music you can find is ridiculous. You can find rare albums, underground artists, and mainstream stuff of course. The music you can find is both wide and deep. You can almost always find entire discographies from any artist.

Soulseek is a great way to find the music you want. The only downer is that it only runs on Windows.

Officially, ”Soulseek® does not endorse nor condone the sharing of copyrighted materials. You should only share and download files which you are legally allowed to or have otherwise received permission to share.” So yea dear readers, use this legally!

Speaking of copyrighted materials.

There is an open-source client for SoulSeek written in Python. It’s called Nicotine. That was based on PySoulSeek. There’s also Nicotine+ which is based on, well, you know.