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I bought one of the Linksys WPC11 (11Mbps 802.11b) WLAN-cards. The card works fine on linux-systems with the following settings in /etc/pcmcia/config:

card "Linksys WPC11 11Mbps 802.11b WLAN Card"
  manfid 0x0274, 0x1612
  bind "orinoco_cs"

Hint: notice the 0x1612 – especially if your are using debian ;-). With the orinoco-0.13e-patch from http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html you are cabable of monitoring (see iwpriv for details whether the driver supports monitoring or not) e.g. with kismet.

Also my FreeBSD (5.2.1-RC1) detects the WLAN-card and with the following settings using it works for me:

#!/bin/sh
ifconfig wi0 $IP netmask 255.255.255.0
ifconfig wi0 ssid $VALUE
route add -ifp wi0 default $GATEWAY

ifconfig wi0:

wi0: flags=8843<up ,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::206:25ff:fe29:8f15%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
inet $IP netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast $BROADCAST
ether 00:06:25:29:8f:15
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
status: associated
ssid labor 1:labor
stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
channel 6 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
wepmode OFF weptxkey 1

Today we (some guys of Security Treff Graz) made a hacking session at competence centre of mur.at. We had some WLAN network-cards and used kismet for wlan-sniffing. Well, mur.at has it’s centre beneath a street where GVB’s trams are driving, have a look: screenshot ;o)

Very fast reply by abuse@aon:

Der Account des Kunden, von dessen Rechner diese Virenmails versandt wurden, wurde gesperrt.

English information: the account of the telekom-customer has been disabled

I received 12 spammails with the “Dear user of “Michael-prokop.at” mailing system, […] Kind regards, The Michael-prokop.at team” from host n632p031.adsl.highway.telekom.at (62.47.22.255). So I sent a mail to abuse@aon.at and today I got the following response:

From: Abuse Intern [schnipp]
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 13:07:58 +0100
Subject: AW: Abuse-Meldung

[...]
Um den/die tatsächlichen Verursacher dieser Mails eruieren zu können benötigen wir die vollständigen Header dieser Emails.

So finden Sie den gewünschten E-Mail Header in Ihrem Outlook Programm:

- Markieren Sie das betreffende E-Mail
- Rechtsklick darauf
- Optionen auswählen
- Hier steht unter "Internetkopfzeile" der gewünschte Header

Header aus Outlook Express:

- Rechtsklick auf betreffende E-Mail
- Eigenschaften
- unter Details "Internetkopfzeile" finden Sie den vollständigen Header
[...]

Of course I attached the original mails (without the “application/octet-stream”-stuff) to my abuse-mail [but the mailsystem of telekom removes them automatically]. And I don’t have to mention that I am not using Outlook [Express] and that the abuse-Team uses Exchange. grml

Now I was very creative and created a new 404-page ;o)

I just found palcal, a “calendar with events” for the commandline. It looks quite very nice and seems to be the best available calendar-tool for the commandline. Now I’ll create an at.pal-file :-).

Update: at.pal is online – improvements/feedback is welcome :)

http://linuxmusician.com
http://sound.condorow.net/ – Sound- & MIDI-Software for Linux
www.hitsquad.com/smm/linux/ – Linux Music Software
www.djcj.org/LAU/guide/ – the Linux Audio User guides
www.midi-howto.com – MIDI-HowTo

Update:
www.linuxsound.at – Sound & MIDI Software For Linux
HOWTO Use MIDI Sequencers With Softsynths
Midi mit Alsa (german)

I am considering to change my writings from english to german in my weblog. But I am not sure whether I should. Any pros and cons?

Due to the fact that I received more and more spammails in my personal inbox in the last few days (even spamassassin and some procmail-rules couldn’t catch them) and because the schema is always the same I created a new procmail-rule:

:0 BD
* http://www.(affiliatedrugs)|(moderndrugstore).biz
{
  :0 fwh
  | formail -i "X-Caught-by: biz-spam"
  :0  
  $MAILDIR/spam_drugstore/
}

Sunday evening/night is spamming-time – but today I am really prepared ;o).

http://irc.evtek.fi/urllog/2004/03/11/roflcopter3.gif

70% of network traffic is produced by IPX! 497 IPX-packets within 3 minutes doing nothing related to networking on the box. Argl!

FreeSBI (version 1.0) is FreeBSD as a live system on CD (like Knoppix). On 2nd March I copied the FreeSBIE-ISO to the TUG-ftp-server and today I plugged in the CD to the CD-ROM of one of the many computers at work ;-)

A windows-like desktop (XFCE) welcomes the user running xinit. The italian menu is a little bit strange ;-) (FreeSBIE is developed by an italian BSD-usergroup called GUFI), but the software works as it should and FreeSBIE is definitely nice for people who want try running a BSD-system.

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ghouli/fitness.jpg

http://koti.mbnet.fi/~ghouli/windowsownzj00.jpg

I am at home again since one hour past midnight. Chemnitzer LinuxTag was really great and together with Thorsten and Jimmy it was fun :-). I’ll write a (german) report in the next few days. Mails, newsgroups, university, work and projects are calling for me ;-)

Update: The (german) CLT2004-Report is online:
http://www.michael-prokop.at/sonstiges/clt-2004-report.txt

2nd Update: Webgallery is online:
http://dufo.tugraz.at/clt2004/

CLT 2004 is going to start tomorrow. Today I will go to a “Ausstands-Feier” (some special kind of party ;)) and tommorow we (Jimmy, Thorsten and me) will drive to Chemnitz by car early in the morning. So I should prepare my baggage now :)

Today I tried to check out rrdtool. It’s quite powerful but it’s documentation sucks IMO and using it is quite painful, at least for beginners. I wrote a small shellscript which automatizes some stuff and writes a html-file.

Konq Rellinks is a very nice addon for konqueror, you can use document relations with this plugin in konqueror as in opera and mozilla. Due to that Kevin Krammer is one of the developer of the program he was the one who pointed my to it :-) Have a look at it: screenshot

Today I am really tired. Yesterday I went to bed at around 2 o’clock because of Security Treff Graz. First of all I felt asleep in a very boring softskills-lecture at university, profile-migration on the windows-box (from local to serverside) at work was really ###censored###. The only ray of hope was the lecturer of “control systems I” Nicolaos Dourdoumas who has made a really exciting lecture. Now I will try to go continue on my lectures for GLT04, I hope I don’t sleep in front of my laptop ;o). BTW: On Saturday I am going to drive to Chemnitzer LinuxTag 2004.

Today I installed the dvorak keyboard layout on my happy hacking keyboard, and I am feeling like a small boy who has never seen a keyboard in his life before :-) but I am getting faster and faster. Of course I am using a special Xmodmap. Check out the abcd-dvorak-tutorial (thanks for the URL Thomas Quaritsch!).

As I’ve said some days ago I want to set up ipv6 at home. Now I am running an ipv6-tunnel on my workstation via freenet6.net. I had to change tspc host_type to “router” in /etc/freenet6-client/tspc.conf and due to a bug in the freenet-client I had to restart the tunnel with if_tunnel=sit0 and again with sit1. But now it works like a charme (thanks ak!):

grml:~# ifconfig -a | grep -v "^\ "  | grep Link
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr «censored»
ip6tnl0   Link encap:UNSPEC  HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00  
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
ppp0      Link encap:Point-to-Point Protocol  
sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  
sit1      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  
grml:~# ping6 -c3 tintifax.v6.synflood.at
PING tintifax.v6.synflood.at(3ffe:bc0:a25:1:260:94ff:fe8a:44c6) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 3ffe:bc0:a25:1:260:94ff:fe8a:44c6: icmp_seq=1 ttl=62 time=848 ms
64 bytes from 3ffe:bc0:a25:1:260:94ff:fe8a:44c6: icmp_seq=2 ttl=62 time=1299 ms
64 bytes from 3ffe:bc0:a25:1:260:94ff:fe8a:44c6: icmp_seq=3 ttl=62 time=1279 ms

--- tintifax.v6.synflood.at ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 848.513/1142.582/1299.815/208.104 ms, pipe 2
grml:~# ping6 -c3 www.kame.net
PING www.kame.net(orange.kame.net) 56 data bytes
64 bytes from orange.kame.net: icmp_seq=1 ttl=55 time=334 ms
64 bytes from orange.kame.net: icmp_seq=2 ttl=55 time=332 ms
64 bytes from orange.kame.net: icmp_seq=3 ttl=55 time=332 ms

--- www.kame.net ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2003ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 332.256/333.177/334.292/1.074 ms
grml:~#