30 Mar
2018

Sierra Wireless EM7455 issues on Win 10 Fall 2017 and Workaround

By: grelbar Category:Howto, Howto's, Windows 10Tag: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , :Comments on Sierra Wireless EM7455 issues on Win 10 Fall 2017 and Workaround

As a somewhat ambivalent user of a Lenovo Thinkpad T460s laptop loaded with Windows 10 Enterprise and latest updates. After the Fall 2017 Creators update from Microsoft, the built in 4G Modem, a Sierra Wireless EM7455 stopped working. But not in an obvious way. You could still connect the 4G modem, and you’d have “bars” […]

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19 May
2017

Patching ScaleIO 2.0 VMware Hosts

By: grelbar Category:Hardware, Howto'sTag: , , , , , , , , , , :Comments on Patching ScaleIO 2.0 VMware Hosts

Recently did an ESXi patch run, along with some BIOS and firmware updates on a ScaleIO 2.x environment (more precisely 2.0.5014.0). The environment consists of some Dell PowerEdge servers, some of which are ESXi 6.0 build 3380124, some are Linux based, non-virtualized hosts. Luckily this environment was ScaleIO 2.x, because this version has a real maintenance […]

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26 Oct
2013

Pi musings

By: grelbar Category:Hacking, Hardware, Howto'sComments on Pi musings

So now I’ve gone and done it! I am doing something with my Pi. What I’ve done is, install nginx in a jail on it. Why? Just because I haven’t done that before. I’ll talk a bit more about what I did, and how in this post. Why nginx? Well, the primary reason is that it’s […]

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1 Oct
2013

LSI Updates and Pi

By: grelbar Category:Hacking, Hardware, Howto'sTag: , , , , , , , , , :Comments on LSI Updates and Pi

There’s no possible way to make a Raspberry Pi-joke that hasn’t already been made. LSI So far so good. Things’ve been working fine, though I have to look into disabling the bios since I’m not booting from any drives that are behind the LSI card. Boot times are three times as long as without the […]

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30 Aug
2013

Blabbity blab

By: grelbar Category:Hacking, Hardware, Howto's, randomComments on Blabbity blab

Nothing specific to talk about, but I felt like writing anyway. Don’t multihome vmk ports in ESXi Multihoming vmk ports on ESXi 5 (?) and later is not kosher. It’ll allow you to make the config, and it’ll even work, for a random period of time. You probably want separate physical ports for management and […]

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