Tag: Wireless
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Lousy wireless on OS X Mavericks
To be honest I have not noticed any improvement on upgrading to OS X Mavericks on this laptop, but I have noticed a significant degradation in the performance of the wireless networking – notably dropped connections and long re-connect times. Not impressed. And, of course, it is proprietary software so there is little chance of…
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A broadband commons and economic prosperity
Much internet traffic in recent weeks has been devoted to efforts by US lawmakers to give the executive the power to “shut down the internet”, but other news shows that not all the ideas from the regulators over there are bad ones: FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski said, “With today’s approval of the first TV white…
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Wireless bridge again
Can confirm that I need both commands: /etc/init.d/hostapd restart iwconfig wlan0 mode master to get my wired to wireless bridge to come back up on my Ubuntu box. Not quite sure why as obviously the hostapd service comes up on boot and the /etc/network/interfaces file has that exact mode setting line. But the bridge comes…
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Using old Prism 2 card for the wireless bridge
So, I have taken the Belkin RT2500 card out and replaced it with a decade old DLink DWL-650 (a locked down PCMCIA <–> PCI bridge) – this has a Prism chipset and so should work. But right now I cannot even get the wireless card to come up, never mind bridge it… adrian@dragoneye:~$ sudo hostapd…
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