[ale] My iBook

[Mike Murphy]

I've been tinkering with waproamd on my suse 9.2 dell d600 since last 
week. Some of the flakiness has been remedied by making waproamd's 
scripts do the ifuping and ifdowning of the interface instead of letting 
ifplugd do it (this was suse's modification, not mine, but it works).

So, I have the 2 wireless nets I use (home and work) configured with 
waproamd, and it seems to be figuring it out ok. It also seems to find 
other nets pretty well too. I've combined that with some modifications 
to ifplugd's script for upping and downing interfaces  so that it will 
down the wireless if the wired one is plugged in, and up the wireless if 
the wired one is unplugged. This has me happy as a clam with the 
networking on that machine.

In fact, I can heartily recommend Suse 9.2 for laptops (as I noted last 
week). The only outstanding issue I have is that for some reason 
powersaved won't throttle down the cpu when the machine is unplugged. I 
haven't figured out why, but I wrote a little shell script that runs as 
a daemon that does that for it. Battery live is about what I got with 
windows -- just short of 3 hours continuous use. I think I could get 
even longer, but I don't like it when it gets too hot, so I have the fan 
running a lot...

Mike


On 02/15/2005 02:39 PM, James Sumners wrote:
> I most certainly agree that things have gotten a lot better since I
> switched from Windows to Debian/Slink. However, things still have a
> long way to go to fully catch up to the other two big players. I can
> stream stuff fairly well on my home machine using the mplayer plugin,
> I loathe Xine, but on this machine, my laptop, it just won't work. The
> audio and video drivers are the major culprits. I only have one audio
> channel to work with and the drivers for the ATi card just plain suck.
> Whereas Real streams will play flawlessly on my home machine they
> don't play at all, like it is constantly buffering, on my laptop using
> the same network connection.
> 
> Your network drawer looks like a rather handy solution. The waproamd
> package is too flaky so right now I am just associating with networks
> by hand. If I get the motivation I think I will set up something like
> what you have going; I just never thought of it before :)
> 
> For my office needs I use OpenOffice. It works well for what I need:
> taking notes and writing essays. I do, however, look forward to trying
> out iWork '05.
> 
> 
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:48:29 -0500, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>On Tue, 2005-02-15 at 13:28 -0500, James Sumners wrote:
>>
>>Your assessment is pretty valid, just keep thinking of the glass being
>>half-full.  Things have gotten a LOT better in the past two years, the
>>next year can only improve.  Have you looked at GXine for streaming
>>media (i listen to online stations all the time, video feeds too)
>> 
>>My activities mimic that.  I frequent various wifi networks, customers,
>>public, home, work, etc. Some secure (not really), some not.  I created
>>a user ifup script in ~/bin that uses sudo to load modules ect.  Then I
>>created ~/.network-connections that has 6 or 7 .desktop files in it.  I
>>dragged a copy of it to my Desktop panel and it created a drawer like
>>this:  http://jimpop.net/stuff/debian-wireless-select.jpg  (let me know
>>if you want more info on how to do this)
>>
>>While i do have VMWare, I only use it to run other Linux distros.  I use
>>Crossover Office to run MS Office, chiefly because it works, it works
>>well, and everyone i work with uses it (on CXO or otherwise).
> 
> 

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