A Free "Wheezy" based Raspberry Pi distribution maintained by a commercial electronics company.

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Connecting the HMC6352 compass module to a Raspi using I2C

I am trying to connect a HMC6352 compass module to my Raspberry Pi. According to the datasheet I need to send an "A" for a read command. However, I am somewhat new to I2C and do not know how to ...
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Is it possible to upgrade occidentalis with latest wheezy upgrades

Is it possible to upgrade occidentalis 0.2 with the latest wheezy upgrades to improve the distro performance with sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade. Or can't I get the improvments if ...
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What are the Modprobe commands for the w1 module in Occidentalis

As the title says! I know two of them: modprobe w1-gpio -> start the module? modprobe w1-therm -> Attache temperature submodule! Are there more? How do I remove them? Kind Regards
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How do I install MySQL?

I cannot find any guides on how to install MySQL on a Raspberry Pi running Occidentalis 0.2; Occidentalis is a Raspbian derivative. I cannot use apt-get to install it even after running apt-get ...
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Why won't my Raspberry Pi overclock?

I edited the file /boot/config.txt to increase the CPU speed to 800MHz. dmesg includes the following line bcm2835-cpufreq: Freq 800000->700000 (min=700000 max=800000 target=700000 request=700000) ...