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With kernel 2.6.24 you will need a patch to install Cisco VPN Client

UPDATE: A new client for linux (4.8.02.0030) is out. You no longer need the patch for 2.6.24+ kernel on 32 bit systems. However a patch for 64 bit systems is still required. Please click on the link right below to see the howto for 64bit. UPDATE: 64 bit systems are a bit more complicated, please [...]

Posted 08 March 2008 § VPN ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged: , , ,

Strange error when compile vpnc

I was playing around with Arch linux recently. It’s a minimalistic distro which lets you configure your system the way you want. Advatanges are booting time ( man it’s fast ), rolling release system so it doesn’t require you to install new release every 6 months like other distros, good package management tool alongside with [...]

Posted 08 March 2008 § VPN ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged: ,

Cisco VPN now runs on linux 64 bit systems

Errm … with a patch. Cisco hasn’t released a new version for Linux yet. Quick guide: ( I assume you knew all the requirements to install the Cisco client ) Go to the extracted vpn directory wget http://tuxx-home.at/projects/cisco-vpnclient/cisco_skbuff_offset.patch patch < cisco_skbuff_offset.patch sudo ./vpn_install That’s it.

Posted 18 January 2008 § VPN ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged: ,

Acer Extensa 5520 wireless problem under linux

This laptop has a Broadcom 4311 wireless adapter and it doesn’t work under openSUSE. An ifconfig eth1 up shows SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory It turns out that we must patch the firmware although the bcm43xx driver is included in kernel 2.6.22: wget http://downloads.openwrt.org/sources/wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o wget http://linuxwireless.org/download/bcm43xx/fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2 tar -xzf bcm43xx-fwcutter.tar.bz2 bcm43xx-fwcutter/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta -3.130.20.0.o [...]

Posted 29 October 2007 § Computer ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged:

openSUSE 10.3 typopgraphy is suprisingly good

I must say incredible good looking. Even better than Windows typography. Heck, if Ubuntu’s fonts were this good … Maybe because of the 19″ monitor ? The only thing you need to do is to install MS font pack and the default dpi setting need to be tuned. But it looks so good that I’m [...]

Posted 25 October 2007 § Computer ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged:

Can not compile Cisco VPN client on openSUSE 10.3 64bit

Update: as i guessed, this appears to be a bug from revision 4.8.00.0640, the older 0490 works just fine on my Ubuntu 64 bit (with the patch of course) Just got the new openSUSE 10.3 on my work PC with 64 bit kernel set up and like i expected, there are errors during compiling the [...]

Posted 17 October 2007 § VPN ‡ View Comments ° Also tagged: , , ,