297. WakeOnLan with etherwake, ethtool -- working with onboard NIC

I've looked at this on and off during the past two years and never managed to get it to work -- until today. I leaned heavily on https://wiki.debian.org/WakeOnLan to get it to work.

Not sure what made the difference -- probably the ethernet-wol g line -- but here's what I did:

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First activate wake on lan in the bios on whatever computer you're using. In an ideal world that'd just be a matter of changing 'Wake On Lan' to enabled, but it's not always that easy. Typically, you'll be looking under power options.

On Optiplex 990, go to power options, and enable Wake On Lan.
On Gigabyte 990-fxa-d3 there's no such option. Just make sure that ErP support is NOT enabled.
On Biostar N68S3+, just enable Wake On Lan and you'll be fine.

On none of these could I boot using the PCI/PCIe NIC devices i.e. only the onboard NICs worked.

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Next on each computer which you wish to boot, install ethtool.
Then edit /etc/network/interfaces and add ethernet-wol g for each IF that you want to boot with:

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
ethernet-wol g

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet static
address 192.168.1.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.1.1
ethernet-wol g

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Finally, on the computer you wish to boot from, install etherwake from the repos. Then do

sudo etherwake -i eth3 78:2b:cb:b3:a4:a5

where eth3 is the interface on the local computer that is on the same LAN as the interface on the remote computer that you wish to boot, and 78:2b:cb:b3:a4:a5 is the MAC address of the remote computer's interface.

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I've tried this successfully on:
* Optiplex 990 -- onboard NIC only
* gigabyte 990-fxa-d3 -- onboard NIC only
* Biostar N68S3+. Bios: American Megatrends 08/26/2010. On-board NIC only.

296. Building Wine 1.5.19 on Debian (Wheezy/Testing) without errors

UPDATE 16 May 2013: See here for Wine 1.5.30: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/05/416-wine-1530-in-chroot.html

UPDATE (10th Jan 2013): See here for Wine 1.5.21 using the multiarch approach: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/01/308-compiling-wine-1521-on-debian.html

This time we'll be cheating and using the carbon-dev.org debian rules to build wine 1.5.19, which works amazingly well with a tiny bit of editing. In spite of what it looks like, this build is easy.

This is also my first encounter with multiarch since libgsm was causing issues (think it's moved out of ia32). Ultimately, multiarch will be the proper way to build 32-bit wine anyway, but I'll deal with that some other day.

Interesting fact: if you try to build with ... 1>build.log 2> build.err the build will fail since files are changing in the main directory during build. Make sure that you do e.g. .. 1> ../build.log 2> ../build.err if you want to track the build.

Finally, I've also built wine 1.5.18 this way, in addition to wine 1.5.19.

The build starts here:

Here's my current best guess at dependencies (Note that multiarch on ubuntu is a little bit different from Debian.):

sudo dpkg --add-architecture i386
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs ia32-libs-dev bison flex gcc libc6-dev libfontconfig-dev libfreetype6-dev libglu-dev libgsm1-dev libice-dev libjpeg-dev libldap-dev libmpg123-dev libncurses5-dev libopenal-dev libpng-dev libsm-dev libssl-dev libusb-dev libx11-dev libxcomposite-dev libxcursor-dev libxext-dev libxi-dev libxinerama-dev libxml2-dev libxrandr-dev libxrender-dev libxslt-dev libxt-dev libxxf86vm-dev make libcapi20-dev liblcms-dev libsane-dev libhal-dev libdbus-1-dev valgrind prelink libcups2-dev opencl-dev lib32opencl1 oss4-dev gettext lib32v4l-dev lib32ncurses5-dev lib32asound2-dev libtiff4-dev libgphoto2-2-dev libxkbfile-dev libxxf86dga-dev freeglut3-dev unixodbc-dev gcc-multilib
sudo apt-get install libgsm1:i386

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.7-base:i386 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 libgcc1:i386
Suggested packages:
  glibc-doc:i386 locales:i386
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  gcc-4.7-base:i386 libc6:i386 libc6-i686:i386 libgcc1:i386 libgsm1:i386
0 upgraded, 5 newly installed, 0 to remove and 2 not upgraded.
Need to get 5,412 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.9 MB of additional disk space will be used.
[..]

Once you've got that sorted, it is time to download the sources:

mkdir -p ~/tmp/wine_1.5.19_carbon/
cd ~/tmp/wine_1.5.19_carbon/
wget http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/wine/source/1.5/wine-1.5.19.tar.bz2 -O wine-unstable_1.5.19.orig.tar.bz2
tar xvf wine-unstable_1.5.19.orig.tar.bz2
cd wine-1.5.19/
wget http://dev.carbon-project.org/debian/wine-unstable/wine-unstable_1.5.5-0.1.debian.tar.bz2
tar xvf wine-unstable_1.5.5-0.1.debian.tar.bz2
rm wine-unstable_1.5.5-0.1.debian.tar.bz2

We could do the editing the proper way, or the quick way. Since I'm not really that familiar with build debian packages the right way (I cheat using checkinstall) we're doing this the quick and dirty way:

sed -i 's/1.5.5/1.5.19/g' debian/changelog
sed -i 's/\-4.5//g' debian/rules
sed -i 's/\-4.5//g' debian/control
sed -i 's/\-4.5//g' debian/control.in

Next, edit debian/patches/series and change it from

  1 debian-changes-from-1.1.32-1.patch
  2 readd_xpm.patch
  3 function_grep.patch
  4 Bug#29669_proposed-fix.patch
  5 fix-winegcc-paths.patch
  6 Bug#28898_squashed-proposed-patches.patch
  7 Bug#28201_proposed-fix-modified.patch

to

  1 debian-changes-from-1.1.32-1.patch
  2 readd_xpm.patch
  3 function_grep.patch

And build:

time dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us

The entire build takes about 40 minutes and gives the following files:

../libwine-alsa-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-dbg-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-ldap-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-sane-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-bin-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-dev-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-openal-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-capi-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-gl-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-oss-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../wine-bin-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-cms-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-gphoto2-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../libwine-print-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb
../wine-unstable_1.5.19-0.1_amd64.deb

To install,

cd ../
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

And you're done.
To confirm what version you're using (and get a screenshot like above) do

winecfg

and click on 'about'.

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Links to this post:
http://www.debian-srbija.iz.rs/p/kako-da.html

295. Patching kernel 3.7.1 to fix the azx_runtime_suspend bug

(For a general approach to compiling kernel 3.7,see http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/compiling-kernel-37-on-debian.html )

Note that it is NOT necessary to patch version 3.7.2

If you're seeing the following error messages during boot of kernel 3.7.0:

azx_runtime_suspend
pci_pcm_runtime_suspend
snd_hda_intel returns -11

you will want to patch your kernel. Technically I should be patching 3.7, but we might as well go straight for kernel 3.7.1.

So, here's how to patch it:

wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/linux-3.7.1.tar.bz2
tar xvf linux-3.7.1.tar.bz2
cd linux-3.7.1/
cat /boot/config-`uname -r`>.config
make oldconfig
wget https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/1865521/raw/
mv index.html hda_intel.patch
patch -i hda_intel.patch -p 1

patching file sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c
Hunk #1 succeeded at 2557 (offset -134 lines).
Hunk #2 succeeded at 2571 (offset -134 lines).

make-kpkg clean
time fakeroot make-kpkg -j3 --initrd --revision=3.7.1 --append-to-version=-amd64 kernel_image kernel_headers

Once building is complete

mv ../*3.7.1*.deb .
sudo dpkg -i *.deb

and reboot.

Tried it and it works.