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Drivers and firmware for WL-330NUL and ASIX AX88772 based USB ethernet adapter
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/05
Just in case I need this ever again: WL-330NUL | Networking | ASUS Global?
ASUS WL-330NUL
Why? Well, I have such a device (see below), and somehow managed to kick it out of the network adapters list (it was “USB Network Interface”) and re-inserting it didn’t make it appear in the list of network adapters.
The solution should be this:
They just release new firmware Version 3.0.0.41, which work well with OSX 10.10.2
Source: OS X Yosemite problem with ethernet adapter/eth… | Apple Support Communities
That isn’t the full story though, as I had to follow these steps:
- update the firmware (from a Windows VM: VMware Fusion allowed me to pass the USB through)
- reboot the Mac
- insert the WL-330NUL USB adapter
- in the “Network” part of “System Preferences”, press the Plus sign in the lower left
- add the “USB Network Interface” (which wasn’t available before step 1, and isn’t available when you forget step 3) and press “Create”
- press “Apply”
- choose the “USB Network Interface” and click “Advanced”
- in the dialog, click “Hardware”
- verify if there is information for “MAC Address”
- click on “TCP/IP”
- insert a network cable connected to a DHCP network
- check if the WL-330NUL gets an IP-address through DHCP
- cancel out of the dialog
- close the “Network” window
I’m using the WL-330NUL (I have a few of them) because of Is it my thunderbolt ethernet adapter, or is it… | Apple Support Communities. Though it does no gigabit (the WL-330NUL does 10/100 Mbit/s and 2.4 Ghz WiFi but it is a WiFi to WiFi router which is very useful for being on the road). I hardly need gigabit speeds and when I do, I can usually cope with the flaky thunderbolt ethernet adapter.
ASIX AX88772 based
I also have a ASIX AX88772 based USB ethernet adapter that I bought way back earlier. That one has two drawbacks: a much longer and fragile USB cable and the need to download additional drivers. They are very cheap though, for instance at DX (plain, a, b or c) or Alibaba (plain, a, b or c).
If you want to use an ASIX AX88772 based ethernet adapter (most only do 10/100 Mbit/s), then:
- Check if you have the kext (as you might need to uninstall it) using the steps at OS X 10.10 “Yosemite” Ethernet Adapter Problems? We can help! | Plugable
- Follow the steps at Getting non-Apple (AX88772) USB Ethernet to work on Mavericks ← Putztastic Tech, summarised:
- Obtain the latest driver from AX88772 – ASIX Electronics Corporation
- If you had an old driver: uninstall the old one
- Install the new driver
- Reboot
For the future, I’m considering gigabit USB (likely future Macbooks don’t have Thunderbolt any more) based on AX88179 (USB 3). They are relatively cheap as well at DX (AX88179) or Alibaba (AX88179). There is also AX88178/A (USB 2, limiting it to 480 Mbit/s) but they are not available on DX or Alibaba.
–jeroen
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Sacrificial Architecture: design your software to live for a limited time.
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/05
Today I revisited a post by Martin Fowler on Sacrificial Architecture from last year because I was looking for this quote:
“design for ~10X growth, but plan to rewrite before ~100X”
Thanks Lars Fosdal for pointing me to it in the first place back then.
–jeroen
via:
- SacrificialArchitecture.
- Sacrificial Architecture Interesting piece on why writing code that you plan or….
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May the …
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/04
Say “May the 4th Be With You” out loud and you’ll hear the pun that Star Wars fans worldwide have turned into a rallying cry to proclaim their love of the saga.
Source: Star Wars Day: May the 4th Be With You | StarWars.com
Image Source: “May The Source Be With You – Stars Wars Parody for Programmers” Women’s Fitted Scoop T-Shirts by ramiro | Redbubble
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Visual Studio 2013+: printing with syntax highlighting has moved to the “Productivity Power Tools”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/04
Back in the Visual Studio 2010 days there was a request for Printing source code with syntax coloring.
Then, the Visual Studio team released an extension that did just that: Color Printing Extension Now Available! – The Visual Studio Blog – Site Home – MSDN Blogs.
It got updated for Visual Studio 2012 in the gallery Color Printing extension, but that does not mention it has moved to the Productivity Power Tools 2013 extension.
Both tools are from the Visual Studio IDE team, and mentioned on their blog.
–jeroen
via: printing – How to print XML from Visual Studio 2013 with syntax colouring? – Stack Overflow.
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Latest Tumbleweed distribution update likely kills sshd
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/03
After a recent big update to OpenSuSE Tumbleweed, I could not ssh into my system any more.
Symptoms
The ssh client side would report a Read from socket failed: Connection reset by peer which I misinterpreted as the sshd not running at all.
Luckily the server is a VM, so I could reach the console. There I saw this:
sshd trying to load files it shouldn’t
The files should not be loaded as they are not specified in the sshd_config file:
dsa and ecdsa not specified in the config file
So I knew something was broken. After reading some messages in the forums.opensuse.org I got at Bug 977812 – sshd killed by SIGSYS on client connection
The cause
As usual with such issues the cause seems a combination of factors:
And we have the culprit, I believe: together with the glibc upgrade, openssl
was updated from 1.0.2g-1.1 to 1.0.2-2.12 which brought, among others, patch
openssl-urandom-reseeding.patch.
Temporary fix
A temporary fix is to comment out a line in /etc/sshd_config so you get this diff:
-UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox # Default for new installations.
+# UsePrivilegeSeparation sandbox # Default for new installations.
Be sure to undo this as soon as you’ve received a final fix.
Final fix
A final fix is being fast-tracked so it appears in Tumbleweed soon.
I will report after deployment of [opensuse-factory] New Tumbleweed snapshot 20160502 released! as I think it contains the fix.
Aftermath
I already knew about openQA: Test summary which lists the builds, but not the changes in the builds.
Reading through Information Board or the like for Tumbleweed I found the openSUSE Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory which does the announcements and release notes for Tumbleweed.
It had both the announcement of the “big patch”, ssh bug report and temporary fix:
- [opensuse-factory] New Tumbleweed snapshot 20160422 released!
- [opensuse-factory] lost ssh from 13.1 server, Re:New Tumbleweed snapshot
- [opensuse-factory] SOLVED: lost ssh from 13.1 server, Re:New Tumbleweed
–jeroen
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Mac OS X and python “ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8”
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/03
On Mac OS X, to solve the Python error “ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8“:
Add some lines to your ~/.bash_profile then re-start bash (or re-login):
export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
export LANG=en_US.UTF-8
–jeroen
via python – Pelican 3.3 pelican-quickstart error “ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8” – Stack Overflow.
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Obsolescence Guaranteed – PiDP-8 – powered by a Raspberry Pi
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/02
If you have a Raspberry Pi left, then you can make this:
The PiDP-8/I is a modern replica of the 1968 PDP-8/I computer. It’s open-source hardware, so schematics, design files & software are available.
via: Obsolescence Guaranteed | PiDP-8
–jeroen
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Firebird News » Migration Guide to Firebird 3
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/02
Reminder to self so I buys this: Firebird News » Migration Guide to Firebird 3
–jeroen
via: Ondrej Kelle
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Lantronix SpiderDuo Remote KVM Switch: Affordable KVM Over IP Switches
Posted by jpluimers on 2016/05/02
Lantronix SpiderDuo Remote KVM Switch: Affordable KVM Over IP Switches.
Interesting KVM-over-IP solution.
–jeroen
via: A bunch of stuff broke this month, learned a lot fixing it all | TinkerTry IT @ Home.
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The Wiert Corner - irregular stream of stuff 