[ from advogato, entry #23 ]

Yay, I'm finally doing some hardcore driver work for a change. I can't talk about it now, but let's just say it's a driver for a very sweet wireless chipset. What makes this more interesting is that I'll have to port it to the 2.0 ucLinux kernel, but I want it working under 2.4 first.

The SBus PCMCIA driver has been stalled for a while; not due to any particular technical reason, though. My Ultra2 still doesn't quite work right, and I haven't had the time to code blind. kernel problems, basically -- the stock auroralinux kernel doesn't quite work, and my custom kernels are locking the box hard on startup. :)

And in other news, I now have a 480GB array up and running. As soon as I get a new case (the controller is a full-length PCI board and won't fit..) I'll have the whole pile of hardware on its way to get filled up with about 400GiB of MP3s. Yes, that's 114,343 tracks.

Oh, and ShaftNet's upgrade a week ago went well, except for the other half of the RAID1 array dying ~12 hours before the upgrade. Neither hard drive is recognized by a controller now -- but they're under warranty. Yay!

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