This is a quick start guide for people who want to use iproute2 tools (eg. the ip command instead of ifconfig, route etc). It assumes that you are familar with the older ifconfig, route commands. This does NOT cover netfilter.

It is very easy to setup a USB wireless keyboard and mouse with your iMac. The Logitech , which is a wireless ergonomic keyboard and wireless mouse combo, works great with the iMac, under YDL 2.0.

This guide shows how to get a Iomega Zip 100MB USB drive to work on your iMac with Linux. You need to have SCSI-Emulation, ATAPI/IDE Floppy Disk Support, SCSI Disk Support and USB Mass Storage support in your kernel. Please refer to the kernel guide for help on building your kernel. Read on for the guide.

This guide walks you through getting the D-Link DSB-R100 USB Radio working on your iMac. You will need to have a Linux kernel with Video4Linux, USB and D-Link USB FM Radio support compiled in. Please read the kernel guide for help on recompiling your kernel if needed. Ideally you should compile those three options as modules. Read on for how to get it running.

Why firewall your laptop? There are several reasons, not least of which is to prevent unauthorised access to your computer. You probably also don't want packets being sent accidentally from your computer out across the Internet; not only does this give away information about your setup, potentially making it easier to crack, it can also interfere with the operation of other people's computers and incur the wrath of your ISP.

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Quite as I had pointed out in the first version of this HowTo, FireWire support in Linux still is experimental. However that doesn't mean that it won't work or that it will cause serious problems. I use it on a daily base and I am quite happy with it.

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Due to the fact that the iBook2 uses a new type of sound chip (codename tumbler) which is directly connected to the i2c bus, sound on the iBook2 in Linux has not been supported by the default kernel PowerMac sound driver so far.

A hack had been found soon, however it was not suitable for the "normal" user as it was nothing you could use straight forward.

As of now, however, it is possible to get sound support on the iBook2 with not too much effort. Above all, we are speaking of full sound support by the kernel, including the mixer device, allowing you to set the sound volume.

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This article guides you step by step to allow you to deploy ReiserFS journaling system on PPC Mac.

I found this interesting on using Linux as a net-boot server for MacOS. At least a portion of it works as advertised, as I used it last night to restore MacOS from a backup on my server to my MacOS-less Powerbook, after upgrading my hardrive.