I just found that
Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Breaking out of a Frozen SSH Terminal Session
For a long time I have found that if the internet connection is broken during a ssh terminal session that the terminal hangs and the keyboard is un-responsive - CTRL-C, CTRL-D etc. do not do anything. I have always just cursed and closed the terminal window.
I just found that~. will break out of the frozen session, giving you access back to the terminal. ~? gives a list of other escape commands, but I am not sure what I would use those for.
I just found that
Tuesday, 8 November 2011
Using Android Phone as a Modem
For quite a while I had been able to use my Samsung Galaxy Apollo phone as a modem - I just plugged it into my work laptop (running Windows XP) and it appeared as a modem, which I could use to connect to the internet nicely.
Then I tried (and failed) to update my phone using Samsung Kies and it stopped working. I remembered as part of trying to get Kies to work I found an obscure code to type on the keypad to switch the phone between 'PDA' mode and 'Modem' mode. I have just managed to switch it back to modem mode, and this has got my modem working again!
To do this I had to type *#7284# on the phone dialer keypad. This brought up a menu where I selected the USB option to be 'Modem'
Now plugging it into my computer shows it up as a Samsung Mobile Modem. I have the phone number set to *99***1#, which seems to work ok.
I disabled the internal modem in the laptop because sometimes windows tried to dial that one instead, which is not connected to anything.
Then I tried (and failed) to update my phone using Samsung Kies and it stopped working. I remembered as part of trying to get Kies to work I found an obscure code to type on the keypad to switch the phone between 'PDA' mode and 'Modem' mode. I have just managed to switch it back to modem mode, and this has got my modem working again!
To do this I had to type *#7284# on the phone dialer keypad. This brought up a menu where I selected the USB option to be 'Modem'
Now plugging it into my computer shows it up as a Samsung Mobile Modem. I have the phone number set to *99***1#, which seems to work ok.
I disabled the internal modem in the laptop because sometimes windows tried to dial that one instead, which is not connected to anything.
Sunday, 6 November 2011
Samsung Colour Laser Printer and Ubuntu Linux
Note: You might find a more recent post more useful.
I have got sufficiently sick of my Epson inkjet printer suffering from clogged print heads, and noticed how cheap colour laser printers have become, so decided to give one a try.
I settled for a Samsung CLP-325W (w=wireless) colour laser printer. The reason for this is that Samsung provide linux drivers for it, and I had an old Samsung laser printer a few years ago that worked nicely with linux.
To start with, the CD that came with the printer would not mount on my daughter's Ubuntu 11.04 machine - no idea why, so we downloaded the Samsung unified driver for linux from the Samsung UK support web site.
We installed the driver by running install.sh as root, plugged in the printer and it detected ok and seems to work. We had to select the "Samsung CLP-300 Series (SPL-C)" driver, because the recommended "CLP-325 foomatic...." one only printed black and white.
So far, so good!
The fun came when I tried to set up wireless printing so I could print to it from my laptop without my daughter's computer being switched on. The first attempt was to repeat what I had done for the other computer, and install the Samsung unified driver on my laptop. Unfortunately it refused to detect the printer, even when it was plugged into the USB port on the laptop. I never found out why and tried a different approach.
I plugged the printer into my ethernet network and re-started it. I found out that to print the diagnostics you hold the 'cancel' button (with the triangle symbol on it) for a few seconds. This printed out a network diagnostic page that said the network type was 'dhcp' and the ip address was 192.0.0.192. This is odd because my router, which would act as dhcp server should give out addresses 192.168.1.*, so I assumed that it was lying about using dhcp and had a static default address.
Re-configured laptop to use the 192.0.0.* subnet and tried looking for the printer - tried a web browser, ping and nmap, and no sign of it.
Had a look at my router's dhcp list, and realised that the printer had been assigned an ip address by the router, which was not the one on the network diagnostics!!!!!
Re-printed the network diagnostics and got the correct ip address - don't know what happened there.
Pointed a web browser at the printer's IP address and got a nice status web page, with a 'login' option at the top right hand corner of the screen (once I had scrolled across because I couldn't see it on my laptop screen for some reason....). Had to search on the internet for the default login credentials - found out that it is user name - "admin", password - "sec00000".
Once logged in, I could set up the network to use a static IP address (so I always know where it is, and connect it to my wireless network).
Disconnected the lan cable from the printer, and sure enough, I can see the printer from my laptop. Used the Samsung printer configuration tool to set it up as a network printer on the laptop and....it works!!!
phew!
I have got sufficiently sick of my Epson inkjet printer suffering from clogged print heads, and noticed how cheap colour laser printers have become, so decided to give one a try.
I settled for a Samsung CLP-325W (w=wireless) colour laser printer. The reason for this is that Samsung provide linux drivers for it, and I had an old Samsung laser printer a few years ago that worked nicely with linux.
To start with, the CD that came with the printer would not mount on my daughter's Ubuntu 11.04 machine - no idea why, so we downloaded the Samsung unified driver for linux from the Samsung UK support web site.
We installed the driver by running install.sh as root, plugged in the printer and it detected ok and seems to work. We had to select the "Samsung CLP-300 Series (SPL-C)" driver, because the recommended "CLP-325 foomatic...." one only printed black and white.
So far, so good!
The fun came when I tried to set up wireless printing so I could print to it from my laptop without my daughter's computer being switched on. The first attempt was to repeat what I had done for the other computer, and install the Samsung unified driver on my laptop. Unfortunately it refused to detect the printer, even when it was plugged into the USB port on the laptop. I never found out why and tried a different approach.
I plugged the printer into my ethernet network and re-started it. I found out that to print the diagnostics you hold the 'cancel' button (with the triangle symbol on it) for a few seconds. This printed out a network diagnostic page that said the network type was 'dhcp' and the ip address was 192.0.0.192. This is odd because my router, which would act as dhcp server should give out addresses 192.168.1.*, so I assumed that it was lying about using dhcp and had a static default address.
Re-configured laptop to use the 192.0.0.* subnet and tried looking for the printer - tried a web browser, ping and nmap, and no sign of it.
Had a look at my router's dhcp list, and realised that the printer had been assigned an ip address by the router, which was not the one on the network diagnostics!!!!!
Re-printed the network diagnostics and got the correct ip address - don't know what happened there.
Pointed a web browser at the printer's IP address and got a nice status web page, with a 'login' option at the top right hand corner of the screen (once I had scrolled across because I couldn't see it on my laptop screen for some reason....). Had to search on the internet for the default login credentials - found out that it is user name - "admin", password - "sec00000".
Once logged in, I could set up the network to use a static IP address (so I always know where it is, and connect it to my wireless network).
Disconnected the lan cable from the printer, and sure enough, I can see the printer from my laptop. Used the Samsung printer configuration tool to set it up as a network printer on the laptop and....it works!!!
phew!
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