Monthly Archives: September 2013

Setting the hostname in Fedora 18

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Staring with Fedora 18, the hostname is longer set it /etc/sysconfig/network but in /etc/hostname. To manipulate the hostname there’s a small tool named hostnamectl which is part of Fedora’s systemd package. The following table (taken from the Fedora 18 Release Notes) shows a few basic hostnamectl commands to set or change a host’s name: See also hostnamectl manpage.

Flashing Gen7 bootloader with avrdude

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The Arudino IDE Support package also contains different bootloaders for quite a few variations of the Generation 7 Electronics RepRap controller board. The Arudino IDE Support wiki page at the RepRap wiki also contains a paragraph on how to flash the bootloader onto the Gen7 board with avrdude. It suggest to write the fuses first, the flash the hex file… Read more »