In light of my new found love for Realtek, here’s a list of the hardware that’s still an issue for me in my new laptop: ipw3945 WiFi adaptorMostly working, provided I don’t try to make my WAP support 802.11b as well as g. See Novell bug #202619. Integrated SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro readerThis is a Ricoh R5C822/R5C592 host …
Monthly Archive: August 2006
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Aug 31 2006
Kudos to Realtek
This morning, I emailed Realtek‘s NIC support line to ask about the Linux driver they offer for download for the 8168 NIC in my laptop. It’s a source-code download (nice one) but it has never compiled on SUSE (not so nice one). Having sent the email, I went out, had some lunch and did some …
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Aug 30 2006
Yesterday
…oh I believe in Yesterday! I do – I was there, it really happened. Morning was ‘fun’. There was a coffee morning at college, part of the welcome assault for new students. I was planning to go but also hoping to not get rained upon. When the rain stopped I seized upon my chance but …
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Aug 30 2006
Miriam
Congratulations to Michael and J. on the arrival on Mirriam Julia Mercy. One question: What channel had back-to-back All Creatures… at that time of night?
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Aug 28 2006
Wi-Fi
Well, having sorted out my Ogg Vorbis playback issues on the Life Drive yesterday, I decided to address the issue of it not talking to my Wireless Access Point. Initially I thought it might be a problem with it authenticating via WPA-PSK. It then occurred to me that it might be that it doesn’t talk …
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Aug 28 2006
Mad Penguin
Users of Mad Penguin who are syndicated on Planet SUSE (Fred, Narayan) should drop me an email as soon as they know what arrangements they’re going to make for their blogs once MP apparently goes the way of the (mad) dodo.
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Aug 27 2006
Derby
Had a lovely day yesterday. We had lunch together at the Cadland before heading over to Derby. We spent the afternoon with Liz and it was just wonderful to see her. When it got to the evening we popped round the corner to Simon and Jo’s and, once they’d put the boys to bed, we …
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Aug 26 2006
YaST2-GTK+ on x86_64
Many thanks to Bjørn Lie who gave me the information I’d requested. The yast2-gtk packages have now been updated and build on x86_64 too. If you install it, remember to read the contents of /usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-gtk before trying to use it.
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Aug 24 2006
Home!
We’re home and our house now has a drive – yay! Pack-down last night went well with just a minor hiccup when the crew dealing with the kids work venue pulled the power on the CTP machine in there while I was taking an image of the Presenter install so that we can ensure that …
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Aug 23 2006
Blogging from my Palm
Rather than try to use a text editor and FTP client, an SSH client with a half-decent soft QWERTY keyboad will do the job. Christoph has very kindly sen me he spec and tarball that will form the yast2-gtk package du to land in FACTORY soon. In a day or so it’ll be in my …
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