Hardware

Here is another small thing to make working with Linux more convenient: auto-mounting of hotplug-able devices. This is again specific to Debian GNU/Linux, but might be applicable to other distributions with only slight changes.

USB sticks are really useful. Not only for transferring files between computers, but also also rescue media, or more generally, to boot from. However, making a USB stick bootable can turn out to be tricky.

This is just a quick page describing what works on my notebook under Linux and (sometimes) how I got it working :-) It is no longer up-to-date, but might still be of use to somebody.

Howto use Debian GNU/Linux on a Thinkpad T42p Many of the hints on this page have actually been collected from similar pages scattered over the web; the Thinkpad series of notebooks already has strong support for running Linux on them and a wealth of information is available.

Using the SpeedTouch 330 ADSL USB modem with kernel 2.4 The SpeedTouch 330 USB ADSL modem is becoming quite popular, because a lot of ISPs now give it to customers for free.

Introduction For an upcoming research project, I needed to get data streams from simple 2-axis accelerometers. There are usually two types of accelerometers: one type with analog outputs that need an ADC (analog-digitial converter) to sample, and another type with pulse-width modulation outputs.