Ubuntu on Acer Aspire one AOD250 KAV60

I have Read a lot of people on the Ubuntu Fourms having issues with Acer AOD250 with Wifi, Webcam, and Sound. Lets get down to it…

****Note: Start with a Fresh Install if you can. If not this may or may not work due to other software/drivers installed. Also I used Ubuntu 9.10, on Acer Aspire One 250 Model: KAV60 1.13.

Wifi Fix I fixed the wifi issue by using the proprietary STA Driver After install I went into

System > Administration > Hardware Drivers

Removed B43 and Installed STA Driver Then Rebooted

Yay it works!

Webcam For this I just installed “luvcview”

sudo apt-get install luvcview

To test it I used “cheese”

Applications > Sound & video > Cheese Photo Booth

It does take 15 sec to start the video.

Yay! we got webcam!!

Sound

Download Alsa Driver and install it I used the following commands

wget ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/driver/alsa-driver-1.0.20.tar.bz2
tar xjvf alsa-driver-1.0.20.tar.bz2
cd alsa-driver-1.0.20
sudo apt-get install build-essential module-assistant
./configure –with-cards=all
make
Install it
sudo make install

Reboot
Yay we got our mic

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New IRC Server in UK & TTK New…

We got a new server “Lithium” witch is in the UK this will provide UK people a faster connections. Take a look at the speed update.

User 1 UK:   User to RedFire(US): 270 ms, User to Lithium UK: 32 ms.

User 2 UK:   User to RedFire(US): 589 ms, User to Lithium UK: 106 ms.

Now if you add Lithium to Hub its +89.1 ms.

This is a big update for TechToKnow, and to keep you connected to the fastest IRC Server you will be tested before you connect each server will ping you for the fastest server and load you to it. So You will know your chatters will always have the fastest server and if the ping fails we will load a default one.

Also like to take a Look at your ping to it? take a Look at the Servers page of TechToKnow IRC we added it so you can look at your ping, Its not Open for Public use yet but will be up ASAP.

Have Fun and happy chatting!

~RCP

Router, Antivirus, and Firewall Log Emailing

I have all my Logs from my Firewall, antivirus and router logs sent to me every day.

For this I used

NETGEAR WGR614v8(Comcast gave me).

Avast(I use the free it work nice).

hMailServer(Very cool Mail Server for windows)

For the Server I’m using IP: 192.168.1.100 and port(s), 25, 110, and 143. Now Install hMail Server on a windows Computer after installing it,

Log into the admin panel

  1. Domains
  2. Click “Add”
  3. Domain: homenetwork.local
  4. Click “Save”
  5. Under Domains “homenetwork.local” click “Accounts”
  6. Click “Add”
  7. Address: network
  8. Password: thepassword
  9. Maximum size (MB): 25 (That will do for now)
  10. Click “Save”
  11. Your set just Config your Email client to this server

Now Install Avast on Computers

Then after its done installing…

Restart -> Right click the blue “a-ball” in the bottom right corner of the screen, then left click “Program Settings..” -> STMP.

Then we just add our new Mail Server’s info.

  1. Server address: 192.168.1.100
  2. Port: 25
  3. From address: PC-NAMEHERE-advast@homenetwork.local
  4. SMTP server requires authentication: Cheak Box
  5. User name: network@homenetwork.local
  6. Password: thepassword
  7. Click ok

Right click the blue “a-ball” in the bottom right corner of the screen, then left click “Program Settings..” -> Alerts.

  1. Click “Add” then SMTP
  2. Net alert address:  network@homenetwork.local
  3. Click ok
  4. Then Click “Test all”

There you have emails when your computer get’s a Vrius.

Now in my Router I set it up to send the router logs aswell

  1. http://192.168.1.1/ (This is the ip of the netgear I have)
  2. Login -> admin -> Password
  3. Then when logged in go to -> Email
  4. Click “Turn E-mail Notification On”
  5. Your Outgoing Mail Server: 192.168.1.100
  6. Send To This E-mail Address: network@homenetwork.local
  7. Click “My Mail Server requires authentication”
  8. User Name: network@homenetwork.local
  9. Password: thepassword
  10. Click “Apply”

Now you have your router sending you emails when issues comes up.

Now I have also set this up on my SonicWall TZ 180 But cause most of you don’t have $400+ for a SonicWall I don’t think your going to need to know how to set that up.

The Firewall Emails:

12/18/2009 01:55:30.433 - 	Gateway Anti-Virus Alert: OnlineGames.ZWG (Trojan) blocked - 	76.208.39.148, 57135, WAN - 	192.168.168.65, 52568, LAN -
12/18/2009 00:32:17.216 - 	Possible port scan detected - 	70.42.186.83, 443, WAN - 	192.168.1.3, 64929, WAN - 	TCP scanned port list, 64913, 64919, 64923, 64925, 64927

and I have not had a virus so, the only email I got was the test email

My Small HomeServer

I have made a Computer with Windows XP Pro on it… that I use for a Small media/Server, Now I have a SonicWall Hardware Firewall Hooked up to it so it cant be hacked/gotten into…

The Server on the firewall can only output on HTTP only Min 50 kbs – 350 kps this is to keep bandwith low and my rest of the home network fast.

I’m on a Comcast home internet Service and that firewall gets hit 250 times a day with port scans, ICMP/SYNC flooding so that firewall works very good.

So back to my home server its a CPU: 933 MHZ  P3, RAM:  368 MB SD, HDD: 10 GB Seagate something, Connected to a SonicWall Hardware firewall(Sonicwall TZ 180) on Port E1, at 100 MB.

What do I run on this? Well Right now…

1 IRC Bot(MIRC).

1 VLC pumping a shoutcast stream to a Ventrilo I have running to Our Ventrilo server.

1 Ventrilo(Said Why above).

1 XAMPLite(with PHP and MySQL) used for Webserver.

1 Weather Bug(Used for a PHP Script I made).

1 Bittorrnt So if I need to torrent anything.

1 VNC  So I can easily remote into it to fix somthing.

1 hMail Server I can can send email locally with firewall and antivirus.

Thats it!

To Keep this Always on I have it up to a UPS and… I have a Generator if need to be…

The Screenshot(Taken with VNC),

homeserver(Real Size of Screen)

I will Take More Pictures  of it soon 😀

My hand is broken

draft_lens2183618module11609897photo_1221840891boxer Well I broken My Right 5th metacarpal Its hard to type now and I might not even be able to code anything new for TechToKnow for some weeks.

Is this going to be cheap?

come-on
What does this “$” mean? It costs too much for me? mother F@#$%@

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