Month: December 2006

Configuring a Bluetooth GPS receiver on Gentoo was pretty straight forward for me. This assumes that you already have the bluetooth stack up and running on your Gentoo box. # emerge -p gpsd # hcitool scan Scanning … 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A iBT-GPS # sdptool browse 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A Browsing 00:0B:0D:6E:65:8A … Service Name: SPP slave Service Description: Bluetooth SPP…

I run into some problems when I upgraded udev to version 103 on Gentoo. In order to have it working I needed to: emerge -C coldplug emerge -C hotplug emerge -C hotplug-base emerge -C udev rm -rf /etc/hotplug rm -rf /etc/hotplug.d rm -rf /etc/udev emerge udev emerge baselayout etc-update rc-update del coldplug rm -f /etc/init.d/coldplug…

For the first time ever, the Linux Kernel includes a stackable file system. The new file system name is eCryptfs and it is based on FiST. “eCryptfs stores cryptographic metadata in the header of each file written, so that encrypted files can be copied between hosts; the file will be decryptable with the proper key,…