Gargoyle Router with IPv6 Support

I run Gargoyle Router (based on OpenWRT 12.09) on my TP-Link WDR4300. It works great, and I like the interface and features better than plain OpenWRT w/ LuCI.

Unfortunately, the latest experimental release of Gargoyle (1.5.9) does not seem to support IPv6:

root@Gargoyle:~# insmod /lib/modules/3.3.8/ipv6.ko
insmod: can't insert '/lib/modules/3.3.8/ipv6.ko': unknown symbol in module, or unknown parameter

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iTunes 11 AppleScripts – Search and Show Up Next

iTunes 11 was released today. Liking it a lot so far, but I really wish they added a global keyboard command to bring up the search in the MiniPlayer (one of my favorite additions). Now, through the magic of AppleScript, you can add it yourself.

Open Automator and create a new Service with no input. Then add the “Run AppleScript” action. Paste in the following code:

on run
	tell application "iTunes"
		activate
	end tell
	
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "iTunes"
			click ((buttons of window "MiniPlayer") whose description contains "Search")
			click ((text fields of window "MiniPlayer") whose description is "Search Music")
		end tell
	end tell
end run

Save and give your script a name. Then open System Preferences, go to Keyboard and Keyboard Shortcuts. Under Services you should see the new service you created. Select it and give it a keyboard command (I chose Command+Shift+Space). That’s it!

Pressing the keyboard shortcut once will bring up the MiniPlayer and activate the search field. Pressing it a second time makes the search field disappear.

Bonus: You can also write a simple script to bring up and close the Up Next display. This one does not activate the MiniPlayer window.

on run
	tell application "System Events"
		tell process "iTunes"
			click ((buttons of window 1) whose description contains "up next")
		end tell
	end tell
end run

NVG 510

Interesting.. Just received a NVG 510 from eBay and it also failed authentication on first startup. After a few minutes, it started a firmware updated and rebooted itself. Then it was able to connect. I wonder why the 2210-02-1ATT wasn’t built with this fail-back mechanism.

Motorola 2210-02-1ATT 7.8.7r27 Firmware

If you want to save yourself the trouble of hacking your way into the 2210-02 to simply get your modem online due to AT&T’s foolishness, you can just update your modem using this firmware file. It was downloaded directly from AT&T’s server, and a few people have told me it works. Use at your own risk, though!

nta787r27_attsw.bin MD5 (nta787r27_attsw.bin) = 715b2b5d3071731fffbb91ca686a5377

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Getting into the Motorola 2210

For some backstory, check out this post. To summarize, AT&T’s security cert expired. Without it, you cannot sync your modem. They could easily release the firmware update binary file to allow users to connect, but they won’t. (insert name calling here)

This policy motivated me to get my 2210 online at any cost. And now I’m documenting all my results so anybody else can also get their older 2210s online.

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