It's oh so quiet....

I'm pretending to be a single parent. My better half has gone off on a work assignment to Germany so I'm home alone. Well... As alone as one can be with a small child who won't go to bed until its rabid urge to watch Thundercats has been sated.

So I've made the best use of my time so far by finally getting the right drivers for my wireless card working on OpenSuse 10.3. The problem with my shiny, black HP Pavilion DV6000 is that the Atheros AR5006EG reported using lspci is, in fact, an AR5007EG. So, for those of you with the same problem, I would direct you here, then unpack, make, make install and, once you've done that, then modprobe ath_pci and it works. I've tested it fully and it works with Kismet and aircrack-ng, effortlessly putting the card into monitor mode. A much more elegant solution than using ndiswrapper.

More chatting to people I haven't seen in ages today. Thank you Facebook! And hello if you're reading this! :)

My bike broke down on me yesterday morning. I made the stupid mistake of leaving the lights on overnight which killed the battery and almost running out of petrol. Both of which culminated in a dead stop at a busy junction during rush hour. Thankfully a friend came and saved me by jump-starting the bike to get me home. Mental note: don't leave the lights on and fill regularly with petrol.

So.... For the rest of the evening I shall mostly be drinking wine and reading blogs.

It's simply marvellous

After several months of fighting with various installations of SuSe Linux Enterprise Desktop I finally made the switch to OpenSuSe 10.3. It is quite simply amazing. All the problems I've had trying to get WPA working in Linux were solved in one fell swoop. All I had to do was install the firmware for the bcm43xx chip and restart the interface and lo and behold it worked. No need for poxy ndiswrapper solutions any more, it works with KNetworkManager and the WPA encryption is on! :)


So if there is anyone out there having difficulties with wireless and Linux I would highly recommend that you switch to OpenSuSe immediately. Not only has it resolved my wireless issue, but the Build Service is amazing and contains all the packages I've been installing from source, so I can now install them using YaST.

*big grin*