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Every time starting a new project, I think about if Typo3 is really the best, easiest and fastest soltution. Ok, I managed to get it working which is not that easy for the first time. But still, I think the usability in the backend is far away from beeing called "user/admin friendly". Also the amazing amount of extensions doesn't mean a lot. Many extensions are quite old, not really maintained, too simple or too complexe and very often to difficult to understand in about one hour.

So I've started yesterday to do a small CMS contest on a quite slow VIA desktop PC. I installed the following CMS and "curled" some pages as fast as possible:

1. drupal 6.9
2. redaxo 4.2.0-RC
3. typolight 2.6.7

[...]

The result in short: Redaxo is the fastest and the others show no big differences. But... I don't like Redaxo so much, so I stay tuned on Typo3.

 

I'm using a Via Epia Mini-ITX board (EN1200) as simple office computer and music box. One of it's main tasks is to provide an internet access via 3G network. The USB-3G modem is a Huawei E620, sold in Germany as "O2 Surfstick".

The Huawei USB modem uses just the common option.c driver which works quite well. But from time to time, there occures some warning in the dmesg and the connection stops working:

------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:324 serial_write_room+0x44/0x51 [usbserial]()
Modules linked in: nls_iso8859_1 nls_cp437 vfat fat iptable_nat nf_nat nf_conntrack_ipv4 nf_conntrack 
ip_tables x_tables sierra pl2303 tvaudio bttv videodev snd_via82xx v4l1_compat ir_common 
snd_ac97_codec compat_ioctl32 i2c_algo_bit ac97_bus v4l2_common videobuf_dma_sg snd_pcm 
ideobuf_core btcx_risc tveeprom snd_timer option snd_page_alloc snd_mpu401_uart snd_rawmidi 
snd_seq_device snd soundcore i2c_viapro usbserial i2c_core 8250_pnp 8250 serial_core button 
via_agp evdev dm_mirror dm_log dm_snapshot usbhid ide_cd_mod cdrom ohci1394 via_velocity 
ieee1394 thermal processor thermal_sys
Pid: 18450, comm: amarokapp Tainted: G W 2.6.27.2 #1
[<c0113736>] warn_on_slowpath+0x40/0x63
[<c011affe>] send_signal+0x1cf/0x1e4
[<c011b1fe>] __group_send_sig_info+0x7/0x9
[<f8ed44d7>] option_write+0x123/0x1aa [option]
[<f8e9a59e>] serial_write+0x6f/0x7a [usbserial]
[<f8e9a522>] serial_write_room+0x44/0x51 [usbserial]
[<c020fad4>] tty_write_room+0x15/0x16
[<c020e141>] opost+0x13/0x1ab
[<c020f62f>] n_tty_receive_buf+0x87b/0xc4b
[<c0287bf9>] sock_aio_write+0xe8/0xf5
[<c0152c8e>] core_sys_select+0x22c/0x27b
[<c010fd14>] place_entity+0x89/0xc2
[<c0110b2c>] check_preempt_wakeup+0xbf/0xf6
[<c020b80e>] flush_to_ldisc+0xd3/0x158
[<f8ed4b08>] option_indat_callback+0x89/0xd9 [option]
[<c0253982>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x60/0x8a
[<c0264416>] uhci_giveback_urb+0xde/0x159
[<c0264a87>] uhci_scan_schedule+0x51c/0x761
[<c0266395>] uhci_irq+0xe3/0xed
[<c025370b>] usb_hcd_irq+0x24/0x58
[<c012cf7b>] handle_IRQ_event+0x1a/0x3f
[<c012dbde>] handle_level_irq+0x50/0x85
[<c01043a3>] do_IRQ+0x48/0x5d
[<c0102cb3>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30
=======================
---[ end trace 251442a461df9b9e ]---

That's why I'm currently upgrade my linux kernel to current stable release 2.6.28.7. Maybe the driver got more stable? Let's see...

 

As usual, I do the following steps to compile and install the kernel:

• download the kernel from ftp.eu.kernel.org
• move the /usr/src and unpack
• cp last .config to current linux directory

• make menuconfig the build new .config-file

• make-kpkg -rev ab.1 kernel_image -init 
  

• install: dpkg -i linux-image-2.6.28.7_ab.1_i386.deb

• reboot

 

done :-)

 

Postscript two days later:

The kernel is working fine. But the warning in usb-serial still occures from time to time.

On linux.bigga.de/blog I've installed now some Typo3 blog and I will try to tell you from time to time my solutions and problems with Typo3 and other software monsters (especially Linux).

This blog uses the t3blog extension which is written by snowflake.ch. It took me some time to setup the Typo3 to use this extension. That's always the big task in Typo3: to install a new extension is quite simple but to get it working in the way _you_ want, may take hours. Afterwards everything is simple, of course.

Currently I am only using the bloglist, tagcloud and calendar widget of the t3blog. I can't stand social networking icons, rss-feeds and other garbage for the eyes. This is quite a nice feature of t3blog: either use all with a provided template-page or use only some widgets on any page you want.