Omnikey CardMan 4000 and pcsc
There are basically two ways of getting the Omnikey CardMan 4000 to work: You can either use the original driver from HID (without CT-API support) or the free version from OpenCT
Tag Archives: Hardware
Adjusting your fanspeed with trinity (lm_sensors, pwmconfig and fancontrol)
Modern CPU throttling technology like Intel’s SpeedStep or AMD’s Cool’n’Quiet are quite fancy. They not only reduce the CPU frequency and the core voltage, the mainboard also detects an idling, cool CPU and therefore reduces the fanspeed. But what if the fanspeed is still to high while the CPU is doing nothing? Or maybe the fan doesn’t spin fast enough… Read more »
Unlocking a luks volume with a USB key
A luks encrypted disk partition is great. The only thing that can bug you from time to time is that you have to specify the key before you can use it. Or maybe, if you try to mount the volume with /etc/fstab, you’ll be prompted for the password during boot. Wouldn’t it be great, if you could use a real… Read more »
CentOS and Attansic L1 Gigabit Ethernet
There are quite a few mainboards with an onBoard Attansic Gigabit Ethernet Chip: The corresponding driver is part of the mainline kernel since 2.6.21 (April 2007), but CentOS 5.x still uses a kernel version (2.6.18) which lacks this feature. Jay Cliburn did quite a few enhancements on the original driver from Xiong Huang of Attansic and he even built an… Read more »
RF remote with Fedora 10
Remote controls for PCs are really great. With an ordinary remote for just a few bucks you can control almost everything on your PC while sitting on your couch. Well, thanks to lirc, of course. But most of them have one major design flaw: They’re infrared based, i.e. remote controls transmit data on an modulated infrared beam to your IR-receiver…. Read more »