There’s a new driver in 2.6.12-rc1, for the zd1201 chipset found in some USB wifi sticks. As I have one, I tried it. I had to patch a Makefile to get it to build.
The driver works really well, I found only two glitches: monitor mode wouldn’t work. I finally found out why. This is so [...]
I found a nice applet by Robert Love that lets one handle his network connections conveniently. It has the inconvenient of working only with Suse, and requires a daemon to run.
Since a while, I use a little sudo’ed bash script named gnet to make all this switching between eth0 and wlan0 and all these APs [...]
Sylpheed-Claws: We finally released, officialy, the 1.9.6 version which is gtk2 ! Yay :-) Comments on the mailing-list are quite encouraging.
Wifi & the kernel: After another kernel upgrade, Linux works flawlessly with sleep on my iBook. I needed only two USB-related patches so that the USB subsystem survives sleeps ok: one by Paul Mackerras, that [...]
I just tried pyMusique; after having subscribed and wasted 0.99 due to a bug in the saving code (probably due to something in my python setup), I downloaded one song. Got a .m4a file that plays well with mplayer and rhythmbox, and is convertible to mp3. Nice work!
Update: Too bad, Apple fixed this. Well, that [...]
I just put 1.0.3cvs2.1 online. Been a bit late on this, I’m currently quite busy with real-life stuff.
Politicians did not get it once more. Idiots.
I got a new server ! A nice 170MHz Ultra 1, that should have replaced entirely the old server; it was beginning to get slow under the load. After almost 24 hours struggling with disk copies and strange stuff, the new one is in place, and the speed gain is very visible here on this [...]