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MythTV, ATI Remote Wonder, and atilibusb

Well, after a bit of fighting with current (lack of) documentation on lirc and atilibusb, I finally got my ATI Remote Wonder working with the atilibusb driver directly from lirc. In order to do so, you need to add lirc_atiusb and ati_remote to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf. After that, I created a new config file using:

irrecord …

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Slackware64 iFolder Client

So, I was looking for an alternative to DropBox so that I could run my own client/server model for file synchronization when I came across iFolder.  After about 4 days of reading, compiling, re-reading, Slackware, RHEL and more reading, I was able to install the iFolder server on one of my RHEL servers successfully.  I …

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Slackware64 13.1 Multilib and Checkpoint SNX

Well, time for an update here.  This is my first 64bit system I’ve had so things were a bit different.  I followed Eric Hameleers (Alien BOB) instructions on setting up a multilib Slackware64 system and that has been going well.  I had a conference call this morning so I spent last night ensuring that I …

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Slackware 13.0, Checkpoint SNX and linux-pam

Well, time for an update…
Download linux-pam and libprelude slackbuilds from here:
http://mirror.yandex.ru/mopslinux/source/pam/
Build and install libprelude first then build and install linux-pam.
Download and install Checkpoint SNX from here:
https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal/user/anon/page/default.psml/media-type/html?action=portlets.DCFileAction&eventSubmit_doGetdcdetails=&fileid=8724
After that, connect to your company VPN as you normally would.  I didn’t need the scripts used last time for Slackware 12.1.

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slackware 12.1 and check point ssl network extender

All of this should be done as root!
cd ~

modprobe tun

wget http://arenahome.dyndns.org/dir/N%20Linux/snx/snx_install.sh

sh snx_install.sh

wget http://www2.linuxpackages.net/packages/Slackware/Slackware-12.1/Library/Linux-PAM/linux-pam-1.0.2-i486-1gds.tgz

installpkg linux-pam-1.0.2-i486-1gds.tgz

echo # TUN interface for ssl network extender >> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

echo /sbin/modprobe tun >> /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

cat << EOF > /usr/bin/snx_up.sh

#!/bin/sh

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 snx -s your.server.com -u your_user_name

EOF

chmod +x /usr/bin/snx_up.sh

cat << EOF > /usr/bin/snx_down.sh

#!/bin/sh

LD_PRELOAD=/usr/i486-slackware-linux/lib/libstdc++-libc6.2-2.so.3 snx -d

EOF

chmod +x /usr/bin/snx_down.sh

Then just run snx_up.sh to start your vpn connection and …

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