[ from advogato, entry #58 ]

linux-wlan-ng

0.2.1-pre7 released this morning. Not much changed from -pre6, mainly a few more USB tweaks and changes to the tx_timeout code to make it work properly. Unfortunately there seems to be some kind of pcmcia-related issue on some systems; it would appear to be a script problem. Still soliciting feedback.

IEEE 802.1x

Adding in support on the supplicant side is actually pretty simple; primarily script work, plus the integration into the supplicant. Need to get one of these off-the-shelf APs flashed up and working so I have something to test against, and then the fun can commence.

Other hax0ring

My Dell Inspiron 4100 now has a 32M GeForce2Go grafix card in it. Managed to get my hands on that rare item, and replaced the 16M Radeon M6. They're more or less equivalent feature- and speed-wise, but the extra 16 megs of texture RAM makes an incredible difference. Unfortunately, on 2.4 rivafb doesn't work at all, and under 2.5, I can't switch beyond 640x480. X locks up if I quit and restart it (both with the XFree 'nv' driver and binary 'nvidia' driver). And so far, apm suspend seems to be busted too. *sigh* Granted, the ATI card needed a lot of patches to the radeonfb code, but it did work with everything else. As for the suspending problem.. I may just go ahead and try to get the ACPI event scripts written and just abandon APM entirely. More experimentation is still needed, but the patched DSDT tables took care of the glaring ACPI problems, at least.

In other news

Ended up at Orlando Speedworld for the bi-annual Crash-a-rama. This is quite a social event, as evidenced by the amount of beer consumed and vehicles destroyed. The title event was the crazy-eight school bus races. Lots of blurry pictures are here, if you're interested. Other events included boat-trailer races and three different destruction derbys.

That evening was proof that I "need" to buy a better digital camera. One that handles low-light better. But in the mean time, it's not in my budget, and what I have works quite well most of the time.

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