Category Archives: wireless

Use Infocast Offline

Posted on April 18, 2011 by phh

Normally, the Insignia Infocast 3.5″ downloads its content including the main control panel from the Chumby server on the Internet. When everything is working fine that is the desirable way to use it. If you want to listen to the … Continue reading →

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A Kindle for $25 less?

Posted on April 15, 2011 by phh

Would you buy a Kindle reader if it included advertisements and was $25 less? Amazon is offering a version of the already low priced, $139 WiFi Kindle for $114. The “Kindle with Special Offers” version replaces the screen saver featuring … Continue reading →

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Yet Another Wifi Radio

Posted on March 30, 2011 by phh

I find MightyOhm’s WiFi radio project really inspirational. It uses an Asus WL-520gu router, Arduino and a usb audio adapter to create a very low power consumption WiFi radio. It also makes use of small, yet powerful, open source software … Continue reading →

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Insignia Infocast 3.5

Posted on March 19, 2011 by phh

Best Buy USA finally gave me an opportunity to get a Chumby powered device very similar to the Chumby One. As with the WikiReader, I had noticed that Best Buy USA had started selling the Insignia Infocast 3.5″ and it … Continue reading →

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Tweaking the rt2500pci for Jaunty

Posted on April 25, 2009 by phh

With the release of Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) it is time to dust off the tweaks I perform with each new version. I have a few RaLink rt2500 based wireless (wifi) pci adapters from MSI . One issue I tweak … Continue reading →

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Oops, Not So Fast

Posted on February 5, 2009 by phh

A few days after installing the Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Mini PCI Express Adapter the Acer Aspire One stopped working. It would make it through the POST. It wouldn’t boot up either with the SSD or from Flash. I wasn’t … Continue reading →

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Fixed Wireless on Acer Aspire One

Posted on December 9, 2008 by phh

I feel like I have cheated. I have found a solution to the general flakiness of wireless on the One. Wireless has been troublesome on the Acer Aspire One (aao). Kernel 2.6.27 support has been a “work in progress” but … Continue reading →

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No Wireless After 2.6.27-9 Kernel Update

Posted on November 28, 2008 by phh

After the update to kernel version 2.6.27-9 on Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex), wireless stopped working on my Acer Aspire One. I added ath_pci to the blacklist in /etc/modprobe.d: sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and added to the bottom: blacklist ath_pci Saved and … Continue reading →

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Auto Login Prompts for Keyring Password for Wireless Connection

Posted on November 20, 2008 by phh

The kitchen computer is configured to login auto magically using an unprivileged user account. It is using Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) and it has the annoying habit of asking for the password to allow access to the local keyring for … Continue reading →

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Gutsy Beta Wireless Working Well

Posted on October 11, 2007 by phh

We are about a week away from the release of Ubuntu “Gutsy Gibbon” 7.10 and the release candidate should come out today. I am very happy to report that my rt2500 wireless pci cards and usb Airlink 101 (ZyDAS zd1211b) … Continue reading →

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