Author archives: Mike
The key is to ignore what the package says (Orinoco Gold is actually an Atheros Chipset)
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The reason the bloody wifi card wouldn't work is that I was trying to load it with the wrong driver with a borked pcmcia bus. I eventually got the yenta-socket module loaded and that let me see Proxim Orinoco Gold wifi card was actually an Atheros AR5211. That card is supported by the madwifi-driver package. ...
No Orinoco Gold love (Silly pcmcia subsystem no longer has an ioctl operation it requires...)
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I came down to Linux Caffe to work today. So far no real work done as it turns out the Orinoco Gold network card can't be loaded. Have tried it with both Kubuntu and Knoppix, neither recognised it and both crashed whenever I touched the touchpad.
Apparently I'll have to upgrade to pcmciautils in order ...
PyGTA is tomorrow (Tuesday) (Toronto Python User's group meeting...)
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Tomorrow at 7PM is the monthly PyGTA meeting at Linux Caffe. It'll be a less formal meeting than normal, with short talks and discussions and more free socialisation time. If you want to do a 5-10 minute presentation on a project or topic, let me know and I'll put you on the schedule.
No suspense yet (Suspend2 doesn't just magically make it work, apparently...)
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Well, have spent a good couple of hours trying to get software suspend working on the new laptop. I've got the kernel compiled, but I can't get it to boot. I'm using:
kernel /kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.15-suspend2-r8 root=/dev/ram0
init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hda4 resume2=swap:/dev/hda3 noresume2
in grub to boot and the kernel is panicking because it can't find the /dev/ram0 ...
Apparently joy in technology derives from ownership! (Or at least possession...)
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Pleasant VexMeet this evening. I sometimes wonder just how bored people must get hearing me prattle on about things. I really need to get out more so I'm not so driven to talk when I see people... coincidentally...
ACI has loaned me a laptop so I can work on various projects in locations other than ...
Need to speed up PySNMP 3.5.x (PySNMP-se (let alone PySNMP) is still too slow...)
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In one of those cases where I'm too clever for my own good, I coded Cinemon to automatically back off from SNMP v2c to SNMP v1 when there were timeouts with the v2c software. The problem is that with v2c I get timeouts all the time due to the rather slow processing of the (large) ...
Minor TwistedSNMP release is up (0.3.13)
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This release just adds an errback so that failures during tabular-retrieval message integration (which shouldn't, but apparently can, occur) will cause the overall table retrieval to raise the error (instead of reporting an uncaught exception). You can get it from the TwistedSNMP homepage, as normal.
Why isn't the inclusion of ctypes the biggest news in 2.5? (I would be sleeping, but the poor little project stared at me with its big brown eyes...)
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Did well over a full day's work on Cinemon yesterday, another full day today, but when I was wrapping up today I figured I really did need to get some work done on the VoIP project. So here I am, hours later, with a bit of a caffeine buzz.
Did anyone else note that the ...
A Few Hours Walk
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Vindaloo.
Some ruby light
In the far distance
A few hours walk
Across the rooftops
Wants me to leave
Walk away from this
Too constrained life
With white-washed
Hope-crushing walls
It wants me to walk
Dreaming toward it
To some other day
Down some other path
Where arms embrace
Smiles are simple and
To walk is ...
Cleaning up the history of a project (Things you need to do on really long-running projects...)
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I spent much of yesterday (when I wasn't trying to recover from multiple caffeine-driven nights this week and last) working on code cleanup for Cinemon. Cinemon is a rather old project, having had 3 or 4 major revisions (despite the 2.0 version number). The current code-base started off as a spike test to rewrite the ...
Mike C. Fletcher, the VRPlumber, is a philosopher of design turned computer programmer based in Toronto, Canada. He works primarily in the Python programming language, and maintains a large number of Open Source software packages. You can reach him at: mcfletch@vrplumber.com.