http://www.misers.org/blog A million dollar ideas Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:30:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/06/pstack-for-linux/ http://www.misers.org/blog/2010/06/pstack-for-linux/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:47:48 +0000 Covener http://www.misers.org/blog/?p=1571 somewhere along the line, it became common for linux/IA32 systems to have a /usr/bin/pstack that wasn’t just a scripted gdb session! Cool stuff.

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1. install the new kernel — apt-get install linux-image-2.6.21-2-686
2. apt-get source linux-image-2.6.21-2-686 ,
3. sed -e ’s/CONFIG_PARAVIRT=y/CONFIG_PARAVIRT=n/’ /boot/config-2.6.21-2-686 > linux-2.6-2.6.21/.config
4. cd linux-2.6-2.6.21 && make-kpkg –bzimage –append-to-version cov –initrd buildpackage
5. Install the packages generated in working directory
6. m-a get madwifi # prepare to install madwifi on next boot when wireless goes away
7. reboot
8. m-a a-i madwifi, reinstall ATI drivers

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