http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/taxonomy/term/694/0 en http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/620 <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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.</p> <p>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 ;)</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/620#comments fc7 fon fonero iwl3945 Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:41:32 +0000 Kris Buytaert 620 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/546 <p><a href="http://www.paeps.cx/weblog/activism/using_open_wifi_not_theft.html" rel="nofollow">Philip</a> points us to <a href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080103-the-ethics-of-stealing-a-wifi-connection.html" rel="nofollow">The ethics of stealing a wifi</a> . I too love the sprinkler anlogy.</p> <p>However <a href="http://ploum.frimouvy.org/" rel="nofollow">Ploum</a> in the comments is right about being afraid of the morons that <cite> are proud to say that they used the open wifi of their neighbor to download movies and they took away all of the monthly 15Go limit in a few days !</cite></p> <p>Thats why you should use <a href="http://www.fon.com/" rel="nofollow">Fon</a>. it gives you both bandwith limitation,<br /> security, logging and other things. You get to see who has been using your AP , for how long, how frequent etc .. You can Limit the bandwith someone uses. etc. And because off course you choose to be a Linus, you get to surf on other peoples connections when roaming around.<br /> What else would you be running on a Linksys ?</p> http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog/node/546#comments fon open secure wifi Fri, 04 Jan 2008 11:24:21 +0000 Kris Buytaert 546 at http://127.0.0.1:8080/blog