@TMFS: I can't work out what's going on within that box. In my spirit of being a cheap skate :D I junior hack-sawed through an IDE cable to provide a 13 way and 6 way female to female socket. One end plugs into P1 the other is convenient for male/male breadboard jumpers. I could only find 6 suitable...

@dresseslady539 Sorry if your post wasn't directed at me. For the sake of argument I'll assume it was. unetbootin is a utility to write boot images to a usb flash drive. You can then boot from the flash drive. It is generally easier and quicker than downloading an image to disk, writing the image to...

Consider using unetbootin to create a Windows bootable usb stick from the parted magic distribution. This will boot into gparted which gives a simple gui to rearrange your partitions. This sounds daunting but if you download and run unetbootin it will soon become apparent it is quite straightforward...

I'm using a Samsung phone 5v/700ma/micro USB charger.

Slightly worrying is that the tp1/tp2 voltage shows as 5.5v (even when a wifi usb dongle is in use).

Emboldened by the success of others I thought I'd make my own case. Not an unmitigated success. :( I found a plastic case in the loft. 4" by 2.5" by 1.5". I araldited 4 rubber washers in the corners of the case to act as spacers (making sure the washers were small enough not to get in the way of the...

Debian squeeze and Debian testing. I have the same device (lsusb: 148f:2573 Ralink Technology, Corp. RT2501/RT2573 Wireless Adapter) packaged as a Sweex. Mine just works "out-of-the-box". lsmod shows Module Size Used by ipv6 290227 24 fuse 73593 1 aes_generic 36429 1 arc4 1319 2 rt73usb 23490 0 rt2x...