Using CentOS 4.1 as the Operating System on my laptop for all my work, I’ve been able to throttle down my CPU when running on battery power to extend my battery life, much like the modes that Windoze provides.

$ echo 5 > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling

If you want to go back up again:

$ echo 0 > /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling

Not to be thrown, the output of this file looks like:

[[email protected] ~]# cat /proc/acpi/processor/CPU0/throttling
state count:             8
active state:            T7
states:
    T0:                  00%
    T1:                  12%
    T2:                  25%
    T3:                  37%
    T4:                  50%
   *T5:                  62%
    T6:                  75%
    T7:                  87%

1. Download ndiswrapper from http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/

2. Install
make
make install
lspci
lspci -n

3. Identify and download Windows Driver.

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List

# Laptop: Dell Inspiron 5100
Card: Wireless 1350 (802.11b/g) WLAN miniPCI Card
Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) notice this is revision 02, below is revision 03, Idon’t know if it matters or not
pciid: 14e4:4320
Driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R90501.EXE
Other: This card is in the miniPCI slot of the Inspiron 5100. The driver below (R83097.exe) did not work, but this one did. To install unzip (program “unzip” works on the .exe) the exe file and use bcmwl5.inf.

ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/Linux-x86/1.0-7174/README.txt

Directly following the Fedora Core 3 installation I had to get the video to
work. Therefore, at boot time, I went into the grub config file by pressing “e”
and added the following to the end of the kernel line.

linux single

sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1.run
vi etc/X11/xorg.conf

Driver “nv”
(or Driver “vesa”)

with

Driver “nvidia”

In the Module section, make sure you have:

Load “glx”

You should also remove the following lines:

Load “dri”
Load “GLcore”

Reference:

http://www.ccs.neu

* Analog www.analog.cx

* Report Magic for Analog www.reportmagic.org

* WebStats for Analog & Report Magic patsplanet.com/software/webstats

* AWStats awstats.sourceforge.net

* Webalizer www.mrunix.net/webalizer

* wwwstats http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/websoft/wwwstat/

* WUsage www.boutell.com/wusage/ (Free Trial, has cost)

Java J2SDK 1.4.2_4 http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/download.html
Tomcat 5.0.25 http://jakarta.apache.org/site/binindex.cgi
JSTL 1.1 http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/doc/standard-doc/intro.html
MySQL 5.0.20 http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.0.html

Apache HTTP 2.0.49 http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi
PHP 4.3.7 http://www.php.net/downloads.php
PHPMyAdmin 2.5.7 http://www.phpmyadmin.net/

Eclipse 3.0 http://eclipse.org/downloads/index.php

Eclipse 3.0 was released today.
PHP 5.0 is in RC3
MySQL 4.1.2 is still in Alpha

If say you want to run apache and tomcat both on port 80 (default), you can create a seperate IP address on an internal network.

For RedHat Distros

$ cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
$ more ifcfg-eth0:0

DEVICE=”eth0:0″
BOOTPROTO=”none”
ONBOOT=”yes”
IPADDR=”XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX”
NETMASK=”255.255.254.0″
BROADCAST=”XXX.XXX.XXX.255″

$ ifup-aliases eth0

When getting an error stating the PGP key is not correct

rpm –import http://mirror.centos.org/centos-3/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-3

The PGP Key is also reportedly on each CD.

More info at http://www.centos.org/modules/smartfaq/faq.php?faqid=29

For RedHat 9

$ redhat-config-date (except this requires X)

or

$ clock
$ rm /etc/localtime
$ ln -s /usr/share/zoneinfo/Australia/Brisbane /etc/localtime
$ /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov
$ /sbin/hwclock –systohc

The last two commands can be added to cron for regular syncing with running ntp

0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/rdate -s time.nist.gov >/dev/null 2>&1
1,31 * * * * /sbin/hwclock –systohc >/dev/null 2>&1