Sunday, 5 January 2020

Setting it up again

This week I have reinstalled my good old Raspberry Pi from latest NOOBS. As I keep using my good old Apple aluminium keyboard with it I was very happy to find this wiki about the enhanced support of it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Apple_Keyboard

This configuration made my Hungarian keyboard working just fine and allowing the use of ctrl+alt+f1 to invoke tty0 and ctrl+alt+f7 to switch back to GUI:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ more /etc/modprobe.d/hid_apple.conf
options hid_apple fnmode=2 iso_layout=0

I have installed gucharmap also as characters for alt + keys are not printed on the keys and I needed a bunch of special characters to configure WPA passphrase on TL-MR3040 WiFi Ethernet adapter.

I also installed dnsutils and tcpdump to troubleshoot TL-WR702N of which DHCP capture I kept in ~/Captures/boot but eventually I could not make it work on Wifi of Vodafone broadband router Huawei HHG2500.