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Jun 18th

PCMCIA on MicroXP

- Post Category: Nickness

For all of those with problems gaining access to the internet on your old Laptops with PCI to CardBus slots (where the Ethernet card just so happens to be parked), and were lucky enough to not know that MicroXP DOESN'T come with the PCMCIA driver for old PCI/CardBUs adaptors...I have Great news.

It's extremely hard to find these old drivers, but I found 1 place for the TE drivers (texas Instruments), and I had to figure it out myself for the Toshiba toPCI100 PCI to CardBus adaptor which I just so happen to have as well....

If you have the Texas Instruments CardBus, please Go here.

For those in my situation (with an old Toshiba Satellite) you will need a Copy of the XP SP3 CD, or a copy of the XP SP2 CD. These both contain the precious PCMCIA driver for your CardBus (Please Note: the Vista driver doen't support this old hardware, and thus the reason you need XP's Version of the driver).

Once you install, disable the use of the CardBus adaptor in the Device Manager, then restart your computer...once restarted, insert your Disk, so the Automatic Hardware discovery sees the disk.

You will likely need to Browse manually to the i386 folder and select it, since it for some reason might not on it's own. Do this for both existences of the PCMCIA CardBus, and restart Again. Shazam, you've got a working CardBus, make sure to install the appropriate drivers for your Ethernet card before hand as well. Just like that, internet is born.


Jun 14th

New Server Certificate!

- Post Category: Tensioncore

We finally have a root, trusted certificate for our web server, provided by StartSSL.

With this certificate, I'm going to get the highest level of verification for Tensioncore's main site, and add regular ones to other Tensioncore Sites.

Something that is very interesting to me as well is the CA's WoT program, which sees Notary's to the Online presence of StartSSl, meaning People can issue Certificates, as well as verify users/site owners in person rather than online.

First on the list was to take the Start SSL Test, verifying that I know the rules of the program...Passed 10 out of 10.

The next step is to provide "Class 2 Identification", meaning I will need to provide 2 pieces of Photo Identification to StartSSL over Fax, email etc, or to meet with a Notary.

After this, I will need to meet with 2 notary's to prove my existence, and then become a notary myself.

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