fc7

Mar 14 2008

Fedora 7 Wireless weirdness

Since I first started using my Fonero I had some weird behavior with my Laptop's wireless card. Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network I could usually see 2 of my 3 wireless networks but not my MyPlace network. Sometimes I couldn't see any wireless network untill after a rmmod iwl3945 modprobe iwl3945 sequence.

Somewhere last weekend I was fed up with my slow booting laptop and decided it was time to clean up my bootorder and remove unused services that I had installed for test purposes only from it's boot procedure. One of the steps I took was removing the default enabling of my wlan0 interface.

The result was pretty astonishing, not only is my laptop booting much faster, but also whenever I now manually start NetworkManager it actually finds the MyPlace network and connects to it.

Yes I know I should upgrade to FC8 someday , and probably this is a known fact/fix but I never bothered to look further. Lazyness you know ;)

Sep 24 2007

Latitude D830

The thing with a new laptop is that you have to transfer your data again and again and again .. and that you forget to install packages you installed once..

All the theory about large scale installs and reproducability isn't worth a dime on a tool you install stuff to on a daily base.

Anyone has a good recipe to manage his own workstation t?