Chhers

I am trying to connect my Fritz wlan repeater and can see your explanation above, but cant make it work. Can you please describe in more details how you did (even if it was a long time ago)?

Thanks

The user interface – especially on the device itself – is quite enigmatic and far from intuitive.

I agree that some work would’ve been nice but there have been substantial upgrades to the firmware already (compared to the time when it was released fresh in the wild) so there’s some hope.

Tried it at a friend’s place, worked for 1 hour.
Then took it to my own appartement, what a surprise when I understood that it could not be reconfigured for another network!

It keep displaying a running clock and there’s nothing I can do.

I don’t see in the list of Wifi network around me.

Thanks to your poste (and not to the manual that does not exist), I saw that there’s a menu behind the LCD screen, when touching it.

Found the reset option (the one that looks like a Reload button) but pressing the middle of the screen does… nothing. It does not react.

I think the device is much too young and not ready for public release, it was a mistake to buy it so early.

Preferably not from an Apple fanboy .

Anyway, in minor objection to your universal panning of flat laptop keyboards I offer another IBM as a counterexample: the Thinkpad keyboard (circa 2002) remains my gold standard. I have a Thinkpad T23 that I love, but its 1GHz PIII can’t handle modern software. If firefox 1.5.0.7 on a 2.4.27 kernel could cut it in this world, I’d still be using that machine.

I would also love to see a pc keyboard with apple’s design, just to give it a try. the keys are so silky. but I’ve never used a mac long enough to know whether it holds up for the duration, though.

Just for reference: The Evolution already died on me, several keys just wouldn’t work anymore. And I’m not even an excessive gamer or have anger-management problems I take out on my hardware. Which brings me back to what I have always known: Flat keyboards are crap. We need more old-school IBM keyboard copies .

i’ve got a kinesis freestyle, and the slant is nice, but i need better keys. i’ve been through the evoluent verticalmouse2, and at one point i had a logitech revolution mx as my secondary mouse, and nothing compares to the kensington expert mouse (trackball).

thanks for the good review!

i do not have administrator privileges at work and hence can’t run RegisterFont without getting the error: “The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click on OK to terminate the application.”

if i did have administrator privileges i would be able to install .NET Framework 2.0 but in that case i would just be able to install the fonts i need, and wouldn’t need this fix

this application should be usable by the target audience, namely users without administrative privileges or any other special software that doesn’t come with windows out of the box

If you have trouble navigating to the web interface, you can try this: Since the repeater acts as a DHCP and DNS server when unconfigured, it will send it’s own IP when you connect to it and receive an address.

You can try accessing the repeater by that address directly (thus skipping the hostname), the protocol is definitively http and not https .

pushd c:\temp\fonts; For %f in (*.*) do registerfont %f; popd

Ensure registerfont is either in the folder or the path.

This has been discussed at length at
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w7itprosecurity/thread/9a0938f5-9851-48bd-bbe8-8078647b6fd2/

Hope this helps
Chris

You can reset the repeater through it’s OSD menu:
Tip the left lower edge of the screen with your finger, repeat that until you see an icon that looks like a round arrow (sort of like a browser “reload” icon) with the letter “R” on the right side of it.

Tip the middle of the screen and tip again when the check-mark icon pops up. The repeater should be reset now.

For testing purposes I suggest you plug-in the Fritz! repeater somewhere close to your laptop and have a look whether you can find the Fritz! network after that (give it 2-5 minutes). Depending on the WLAN adapter in your laptop you might need to disconnect from your previous network to see all networks in your vicinity.

You DO need to disconnect from your previous network when you find the Fritz network, because in it’s initial/unconfigured state the repeater sports it’s own dhcp server so you can later access http://fritz.repeater to configure it.

As long as you don’t see the repeater’s network you can’t access it and configure it to relay data from another wireless network, thus rendering the repeater useless.

Note: I wrote the initial password for the Fritz network would be 00000 while it is 00000000 (8 times zero).

I just looked it up in the manual and the “clock” thingy is actually supposed to be a radar, indicating the repeater is searching for WPS compatible devices/networks. If you’re somewhat annoyed by the icon you can also try to tip the repeat, thus accessing it’s OSD menu… but there’s nothing you can setup, the configuration is all web-based.

Another thing to be all happy about: The web-interface is completely German without any chance of changing language to anything else. I’ll translate the dialogues for you and upload them as pictures later on, if you want me to .

sorry, I don’t skype, but I’ll try to put in easy terms

Just let me assume now that you’re one of the 95% of the World that is using Windows .

If you use XP:
- Click start, Control Panel, Network Connections
- Select your wireless connection (usually indicated by a set of green bars or an antenna symbol)
- Right click, select Properties, select TCP/IP
- Make sure you didn’t assign an IP address or DNS server manually (just make sure the radio boxes use the “automatic” settings)

If you use Windows 7:
- Click Start, Control Panel, in the search panel enter “adapter” and select “Show network connections”
- Select your wireless connection (usually indicated by a set of green bars or an antenna symbol)
- Right click, select Properties, select TCP/IP
- Make sure you didn’t assign an IP address or DNS server manually (just make sure the radio boxes use the “automatic” settings)

After that just search for wireless networks (right click on wireless connection, search for wireless networks) and connect to the Fritz one.

After that just follow the instructions from the previous comment.

Hope that helps you, feel free to talk back if there are any questions .

setting it up is rather easy:
- Disconnect your WLAN adapter and make sure DHCP is active for the adapter.
- Plug in the Fritz! WLAN Repeater into a power outlet.
- Let your WLAN adapter search for networks, it will find the Fritz! adapter.
- Connect to it, open your browser and navigate to http://fritz.repeater
- The default password is 0000 methinks, click your way through the wizard and you’re done.

Since hdparm changes soft parameters on runtime there’s nothing you need to revert. If the service is not running and invoking hdparm, all your hard-drive settings are set to the manufactor’s default.

I was wondering if you could help! I installed this service on vista & want to fully remove HDPARM so my hardrive is back to it’s default APM settings. I unstalled HDPARM but still have a HDPARM.XML file. I basically want to know correct way to uninstall HDPARM so hardrive back to default power management.

Thanks very much if you can help!

Ubuntu 9.10