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Lots of driving today; about five hours worth, to be specific. My neck, shoulders, and left arm hurt like hell - I think I badly need to readjust the driver's seat, as this happens every time I drive for a long time in that car...
Driving into downtown Albany to pick up Adrienne from the train station[1] was...weird. The ramp complex coming off 787 and the brief glimpses of the city that I got made me feel like I was inside some immense machine, built by giants for some unknown purpose.
I got the ipw2100 card Alex lent me working in snark. Well, mostly working - I get "Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart" in my system log every few minutes, but it does seem to work overall. Will test WPA with it when I go home for intersession - hopefully I'll have better luck than I did with the Atheros card snark came with[2].
It snowed while I was gone. Everything's white, and thecratergiant pothole in the driveway is under a deceptive white blanket. I feel sorry for whoever fails to notice it and breaks an axle.
The end of the semester is nearing. Doom.
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[1]: Not that I was in downtown Albany for long - I ended up missing my turn and going quite a ways down 9/20 before realizing "hey, I was here when I dropped her off before" and turning onto 4 and going from there to pick her up, on the off chance that anyone cares.
[2]: God, the drivers (both madwifi and madwifi-ng) for Atheros cards are such an unbearable clusterfuck. Even this thing that spams my syslog has got to be better.
Driving into downtown Albany to pick up Adrienne from the train station[1] was...weird. The ramp complex coming off 787 and the brief glimpses of the city that I got made me feel like I was inside some immense machine, built by giants for some unknown purpose.
I got the ipw2100 card Alex lent me working in snark. Well, mostly working - I get "Fatal interrupt. Scheduling firmware restart" in my system log every few minutes, but it does seem to work overall. Will test WPA with it when I go home for intersession - hopefully I'll have better luck than I did with the Atheros card snark came with[2].
It snowed while I was gone. Everything's white, and the
The end of the semester is nearing. Doom.
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[1]: Not that I was in downtown Albany for long - I ended up missing my turn and going quite a ways down 9/20 before realizing "hey, I was here when I dropped her off before" and turning onto 4 and going from there to pick her up, on the off chance that anyone cares.
[2]: God, the drivers (both madwifi and madwifi-ng) for Atheros cards are such an unbearable clusterfuck. Even this thing that spams my syslog has got to be better.
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Date: 2005-11-28 05:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 05:06 am (UTC)The (now old) Atheros drivers didn't have working WPA with my card, even though it supports it. The new (still pre-alpha!) ones probably do, but, among other things, require futzing around with some new custom overkill tool called wlanconfig before it even deigns to give you a network interface you can poke with wireless-tools. Oh, and did I mention that power management support is iffy in the new ones and nonexistant in the old ones? If I unplugged with the atheros card, I could sit and watch my battery meter go down alarmingly quickly.
The ipw2100 drivers support WPA (yes!) and power management (yes!!), but turning it on is useless, as I get a firmware restart and lose the PM setting every few minutes anyway. Lose, lose, LOSE.
The Network
ManglerManager guys wrote a rant about how much the current state of wireless on Linux sucks. I don't think they even scratched the surface of the crust over the bottomless pool of suck that is wireless on Linux now.</rant>
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Date: 2005-11-28 05:43 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-29 01:24 am (UTC)Jake and I did 4987 miles over thanksgiving break, so, what, figure a conservative average of 80 mph, thats about 62 hours in the car.