I have got an Acer Aspire 5920g carrying a Ricoh memory card reader which should be able to read SD/MMC/MS/MS PRO/xD. The device is correctly detected by the Kernel (2.6.24) at boot time but unfortunately it doesn’t work at all (i.e. it neither detects memory cards when they are inserted nor creates the needed device in /dev).

Nuovo kernel nuova patch per il Cisco VPN Client che grazie ancora ad Alexander torna a funzionare senza problemi, ecco i passi da seguire per patchare il vostro client:

1. Untar the VPN Client

# tar xzf vpnclient-linux-4.8.01.0640-k9.tar.gz

2. Download the patch

# wget -q http://projects.tuxx-home.at/ciscovpn/patches/vpnclient-linux-2.6.24-final.diff

3. Change to the vpnclient diretory

# cd vpnclient

4. Apply the patch

Note: This article is part of my Testing stuff with QEMU series.

From the Debian GNU/kFreeBSD port page:

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD is a port that consists of GNU userland using the GNU C library on top of FreeBSD's kernel, coupled with the regular Debian package set.

Q: Why would anybody want to do that?
A: Why not? [1]

So, after we have talked about that, let's start:

According to Jurij Smakov's announcement, the Debian port for 32bit SPARC machines is about to be retired.

This is really sad in my opinion, as we should rather support more architectures instead of less architectures. After all, Debian is "The Universal Operating System" [1].

Now, I know that my opinion doesn't matter much in this case, but many other people who own sparc32 boxes seem to feel the same, judging from the thread which was started by the announcement.

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