Author: pankaj

  • Fedora Core 3

    Fedora Core 3 was released on Monday. By early Wednesday morning I had the DVD ISO downloaded and burnt onto a shiny new DVD+R. I popped the freshly burnt DVD into my laptop ( an IBM Thinkpad T40 ) and upgraded an existing Fedora Core 2 installation. The installation ran longer than I hoped it…

  • Apache 2, Tomcat 4, and mod_jk2 on Fedora Core 2

    Apache 2, Tomcat 4, and mod_jk2 on Fedora Core 2 I am amazed at how cryptic the documentation for Tomcat, mod_jk2 and Apache is. Getting these three components installed and running was pretty easy ( especially using prebuilt RPMs ). However, configuring all the components so they work together was incredibly difficult to figure out.…

  • Centrino on FC2 Part 2

    It’s been a while since I promised to post instructions on getting the Centrino working on my Thinkpad T40 with Fedora Core 2 and unfortunately, I forgot eveyr step I took in order to get it working. The most recent problem I faced was that one of the yum repositories posted an updated firmware driver…

  • Centrino on Thinkpad T40

    This turned out to be pretty easy. I installed the RPMs from ATRpms for the hostap and ipw2100 kernel modules. Initially, I couldn’t load the modules without rebooting the laptop. Upon reboot, the Centrino was recognized by Kudzu. I logged in and my Centrino chip was connected to the closest AP with DHCP. I love…

  • Fedora Core 2 Update

    I’ve been away on vacation, buried with work and spending time with the lovely wife and relatives so it’s been a little tough to spend time on the computer. I’m finally getting some time today to get back to tinkering. Mozilla Foundation released Firefox 0.9 recently. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to get it to…