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random musings about computers, life, and everything
random musings about computers, life, and everything
2009-12-10 17:58:47 +0100
mad wifi? madwifi!
seems I'm only blogging about wifi problems on my laptop. anyway, status
update:
I'm visiting friends, & I really want to sit in their kitchen/living room
with my thinkpad & wifi. – as usual it didn't really work
(dropouts, incredibly long RTTs, terribly slow connection, ...). but I think
I found a solution:
like in summer I tried with madwifi instead of ath5k. but this time not
with the madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz tarball but with the
madwifi-0.9.4-current.tar.gz from http://snapshots.madwifi-project.org/.
so I again created a madwifi-source package & then built a
madwifi-modules package against my current (2.6.31, 2.6.32 had funny issues
yesterday) kernel. & lo&behold – I seem to have something that
feels like wifi again.
the madwifi-source package is available at the Toastfreeware Debian
Repository's experimental/non-free area.
(& now let's see if I have to revoke my success story or not.)
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