Posted on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007
Well, I fixed the wireless issue that I was having. The solution was to add the rt2500 module (which doesn’t support WPA) to the blacklist (/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist). After I did that and restarted, the ndiswrapper module took control of the card, and I was able to connect to my wireless access point.
Posted on Monday, June 25th, 2007
I just upgraded my computer from openSUSE 10.1 to Ubuntu 7.04. I chose to go to Ubuntu instead of upgrading SuSE because I have grown to hate YaST (It’s incredibly slow on this computer), and Ubuntu’s configuration tools are so much better. I’d never been able to get SuSE to update any of my packages, or even to play mp3s. In Ubuntu, this did not take very long to setup at all.
Now that I can play music on my computer, I am streaming my iTunes library downstairs to my computer. I had to buy some new speakers, because my current ones weren’t great. I got some really good Logitech speakers for $40 (down from $70) which sound great.
The only problem that I have now is my wireless card. Ubuntu comes with a driver for my chipset, but it is limited to WEP encryption. So instead of this, I am trying to use NDISwrapper instead (it was working great in SuSE). I just can’t work out how to change it’s driver from rt2500 to nidiswrapper…
Posted on Saturday, June 23rd, 2007
I saw this on Digg – it’s the first of an interesting series about Linux gaming. Includes a brief history of gaming on the Linux platform, and some of the best Linux games available (both commercial and open source). Look in the comments too – a lot of other interesting games have also been suggested.
