SIEMENS Gigaset

Service mode Hold keys 1, 4 and 7 while turning on the phone. You will see the display test. Service menu Power-on the phone into service mode and type 76200 (4000er series) or 46395 (2000er and 3000er series) to get to the service menu. There you can… Read More »

SONY Virtual Expander

Virtual Expander is a software which is bundled with the following models: The following information is based on the 1.x version since the 2.x was not available at the time I figured this out. But I guess it will work on that versions also. How it works Basically, VE is a compression tool. It lets… Read More »

hp Laserjet IIIp

Endless feeding If the printer starts feeding a blank page between 2 printed pages or is endlessly feeding blank pages instead of printing something, you might have the problems mentioned in this forum. The printer has two coils in the paper cartridge which pull a metal sheet for recognizing the end of a sheet. There… Read More »

Nintendo Wii Encryption Keys

To use these keys with e.g. Segher’s Wii.git, you have to put them in binary files, i.e. use a Hex-Editor and paste these keys so that you get a 16 Byte long file for each key. Segher’s tools expect them to be located in ~/.wii/<keyname>, e.g. ~/.wii/common-key. common-key sd-key sd-iv md5-blanker

AudioMate Firmware

Download Details Looking at the firmware file, the header starts – as usual – at 0x00. It consists of the string UMDA! followed by the firmware revision in octets. For the v1.2.2.1 I found the bytes 01 02 02 01. After that are some bytes which might be a checksum. The line looks like this:… Read More »

Unmounting

sudo Using sudo umount you can unmount ANYTHING but need sudo access. fusermount Using fusermount -u you can unmount all FUSE mounts. pumount Using pumount you can unmount all mounts below /media which don’t appear in /etc/fstab. Shutdown/Reboot hangs If there are mounted cifs shares, you might encounter a “CIFS VFS: no response for cmd… Read More »

Sphairon AR860

The AR860 is shipped by e.g. versatel – configured as a DSL modem. Admin accounts Firmware b2 IP 150.150.150.4 Login admin Password xad$l#12 (that’s a lower case “L”) Firmware b3 IP 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.254.254 Login admin Password Admin or xad$l#12 Convert to Router To switch from “Modem” mode to “Router” mode, there’s a nice manual… Read More »

apt-get Errors

If you get the following error while updating the package list: You need to manually update the key. The key-ID is the last 8 digits of the key, in this case: 0c713da6. Now fetch the key from the Ubuntu keyserver: And finally add the new key to the apt-keyring: You can even automate this a… Read More »

Wii MPlayer and Samba

The MPlayer Christmas Edition for Wii supports SMB browsing. You can configure the login data of the desired SMB share through the smb.conf on the SD card as follows: For it to work, you MUST use a dedicated user in Samba. Guest shares won’t work. Also make sure you have security=user set in your Linux… Read More »

Compiling PHP-GTK

To compile php-gtk, you need the following packages: When trying to use the buildconf.sh, you might encounter the following error: which leaves the configure-script in a broken state. The problem is that the newer libtool.m4 has been split into different files. To make it work, you have to concatenate the different files back into the… Read More »