Month: September 2010

A while ago, I got a crazy cheap ATI TV Wonder HD 600 USB TV Tuner from Woot for $20.  They’re still on Amazon for almost $50.  The original XO doesn’t even come close to having the horsepower to use it, but the XO 1.5 does. Now why in the world would you want to… Read more Watching TV on the XO 1.5 with a USB TV Tuner

Really, the main reason you’d want to use an external wifi adapter on the XO is so you can use the XO as a portable kismet machine.  The XO’s native wifi doesn’t support monitor mode.  I’ve got a cheapo ZyDAS wifi adaptor I got from Overstock.com a couple of years ago and luckily it works… Read more A ZyDAS Wifi Adapter, an XO 1.5, and Kismet

I tried, but couldn’t get this to work on the XO 1.5 itself.  But that gave me the impetus to finally get my dual boot Ubuntu Lucid / F11 machine sorted out. As we all know, compiling a kernel takes a lot of dependencies and getting all those is usually the most time consuming part… Read more Compiling the XO 1.5 Kernel on an F11 Desktop

Here’s how I got this working: Install Ubuntu like normal Boot with a Live CD and use gparted to resize the Ubuntu partition, making a new partition with room for Fedora.  I went ahead and formatted it as ext3 in gparted. Install Fedora on the partition you just created.  Install the boot loader on the… Read more Dual Boot Ubuntu Lucid and F11