Monthly Archives: March 2007

m0n0wall

Posted on March 24, 2007 by ward

I purchased a Soekris 4801-60 with a LAN1641 plugin board for my parents’ home, to replace a Debian-based internet gateway on an old pc that I set up way back in 1999. The idea was to replace the old, coax-based … Continue reading →

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Gigabyte m57sli-s4 LinuxBIOS build tutorial

Posted on March 19, 2007 by ward

I’ve written up a LinuxBIOS build tutorial for the Gigabyte m57sli-s4. This tutorial still works off Yinghai Lu’s big MCP55 patch, but a patch from Ed Swierk hit the list today which resolves the last issues for building the m57sli … Continue reading →

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MaxedOut

Posted on March 15, 2007 by ward

Went to see MaxedOut tonight in a special showing at Harvard Law. Highly recommended – catch it if you can. It’s also very timely now that (subprime) debt is “suddenly” a big issue because a couple of big lenders are … Continue reading →

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it boots!

Posted on March 12, 2007 by ward

I finally managed to get the Gigabyte M57SLI-S4 to boot LinuxBIOS today. Turns out that some kernel boot parameters were required to make it do the right thing with the IRQs. It’s not perfect yet: the network interface doesn’t work, … Continue reading →

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The road to hardware free from restrictions

Posted on March 1, 2007 by ward

Justin and I have written a paper on this topic titled The road to hardware free from restrictions: how hardware vendors can help the free software community The paper was published today on the Free Software Foundation website.