Network adapter "failed to uninstall" error

Solution is here

Hot swapping SATA drive utility for XP/Vista

Supported controller:

Silicon Image SATA Host Controller (SiI3112A, SiI3114, SiI3132, etc)
Silicon Image SATA-PATA (Parallel ATA) Bridge Controller (SiI3611)
SUNPLUS SATA-PATA Bridge Controller (SPIF3611)
SATA Host Controller (AHCI mode) (e.g. Intel Controller Hub (ICH), JMicron JMB363)

http://mysite.verizon.net/kaakoon/hotswap/index_enu.htm

Texas Instrument flashmedia controller driver for vista

The SD reader (TI PCI7411)on my Sony vaio bx546 does not recognize 4gb card in either xp or vista without a driver update, and sony only provided solution for xp but not vista. Fortunately someone found out the driver for HP nc8430 works on Sony:

http://www.notebookforums.com/thread170075.html

Widcomm (Toshiba) bluetooth stack on Vista

http://www.dev-hack.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1297

BIOS chip models

http://www.ioss.com.tw/web/English/RD1BIOSSavior/Select/RD1ModelSelectionGuide.htm

ATI Radeon softmod to FireGL

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=23&t=227800&page=1&pp=15&highlight=softmod

http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=199951

UPEK fingerprint reader software for Vista

Sony does not provide the buildin upek fingerprint reader support in vista for my vaio notebook. Software from ASUS works just as well, see:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=101461

ATI Radeon Mobility driver for Vista

ATI does not provide driver for their Radeon mobility products. They refer you to OEM maker website to find driver for your notebook video card. If you want to change the OS on your notebook, often you won't be able to find appropriate driver because notebook manufacturer is either too lazy or they just don't care about it. Fortunately some hackers have figured out a way to mod ATI catalyst driver for notebook use, works great on my radeon mobility x700.

http://www.driverheaven.net/modtool/

Windows XP Hotfix for SDHC support

http://thehotfixshare.net/board/index.php?automodule=downloads&showfile=3340

DD-WRT & Tomato WRT on Buffalo WHR-G54S

Factory firmware does not work quit well, network slows down significantly once someone starts torrent download, and connection is unstable while using encryption.

Flashed ddwrt firmware, succeeded with v23sp2 mini. Standard version always fail, luckily didn't brick the router. So far so good. The router seems able to dynamically adjust the output power depending on the activity.

Update: Network still isn't perfect, even after QoS was setup. With five people sharing, connection would randomly lost, need to reboot almost every day.

Loaded TomatoWRT, QoS function much better, and no odd disconnections, everyone happy now.

Grabbing video embeded in a webpage like YouTube

www.orbitdownloader.com

Works great! and it's free.

ASUS wl-500w as wireless repeater

Flash the router with DD-WRT v24rc7 mega version, instruction:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Installation#Asus_WL500W

Repeater setup instruction:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Universal_Wireless_Repeater

Web servers of Fortune 1000 company

http://www.port80software.com/surveys/top1000webservers/

Format USB drive to NTFS

http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm
FAT32 can not handle file size over 4GB

Choosing a radar detector

Radar detector test:
http://guysoflidar.com/august-2007/radar-detector-test.html

Ubuntu Bluetooth Dial Up Networking with Sprint

Ubuntu 8.04
Samsung Upstage

*Edit /etc/default/bluetooth:

…
# Change from 0 to 1.
DUND_ENABLED=1

*Edit /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf:
…
rfcomm0 {
# Automatically bind the device at startup
bind yes;

# Bluetooth address of the device
device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX;

# RFCOMM channel for the connection
channel 1;

# Description of the connection
comment “Name of the phone here”;
}

*Edit /etc/ppp/peers/ppp0:

/dev/rfcomm0
115200
connect "/usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/ppp0"
defaultroute
lcp-echo-failure 0
crtscts
usepeerdns
user ""
password ""

*Edit /etc/chatscripts/ppp0:

TIMEOUT 60
ABORT 'ERROR'
ABORT 'BUSY'
ABORT 'VOICE'
ABORT "NO CARRIER"
ABORT "NO DIALTONE"
ABORT "NO DIAL TONE"
ABORT "NO ANSWER"
SAY 'Starting Sprint...\n'
"" "ATZ"
OK 'ATE0V1'
'OK' 'AT+CSQ'
'OK' "ATDT#777"
CONNECT

*In terminal run command
sudo rfcomm bind 0 device-mac-address device-channel
pon ppp0

*In firefox, click file, uncheck work offline, tada! connected!

*To find device MAC and channel info, run command
sdptool search DUN

*When done with DUN, turn it off with command
poff ppp0