I recently configured a Netgear WGT634U access point running OpenWRT Kamikaze 8.09.2 to use a HUAWEI E1750 3G modem. The HUAWEI E1750 is sold under different names, some people report it as E220 or E1752. You should check in /proc/bus/usb/devices what is the vendor and product id of your 3G modem. You should see the [...]

I use Skype to make video calls mainly to a couple of contacts. I didn’t want to enable video automatically for all calls and at the same time I find it tiring to search for the contact name and place a video call. I wanted something easy to automate that. Here is a simple Automator [...]

I recently came across a nasty problem. I have a Linux box (let’s call it LinuxFW) with three ethernet ports: LAN: 192.168.0.1 connected to eth0 ADSL1: $IP1 connected to eth1 ADSL2: $IP2 connected to eth2 $IP1 and $IP2 are my public IP addresses. Their respective default gateways are $GW1 and $GW2. I use IP source [...]