I've been on holidays for a couple weeks hence the lackluster blogging performance recently. I am back to work next week so hopefully this will fall into my routine somewhere and things will start moving along a little quicker.
Not much has really happened for me in Linux land, after the spectacular failure of Fedora a few weeks ago I have been relatively content to just leave well enough alone.
There is one thing that is niggling at me. I run OpenSuse on my macbook pro which has a Broadcom wireless chipset and for whatever reason the wireless firmware and driver on it are as buggy as hell. I actually currently hate it so much that I just leave it plugged into wired because getting the wireless to work is such a pain. Here are a few of the annoying things that happen
1. If I turn it on and want it to connect to my router I have to start with a wired connection to it
2. It connect to the mobile AP on my android Galaxy S no problems
3. occasionally it just won't see my home router
I don't know why it does any of this and I have tried having yast deal with the internet and NetworkManager. I have installed and reinstalled firmware/driver and I have done everything that I am supposed to and still it hates my router and loves my phone. The router is a netgear WDN1000.
Please if you have any idea what is going on please leave a comment I trawled through every forum and still have found no answers.
Anyways apart from that the rig has been running really strong I have made the move to XFCE on the desktop and it is performing so much better because of it, XFCE has to be one of the best lightweight desktops out there.
I did buy a new graphics card for the desktop but it turned out to be faulty. I will give a full run down of how it performs when I have a working version.
anyways, hope you have had a wonderful Christmas/ New years break and as always, any comment, criticisms or suggestions are more than welcome
Talk Soon!
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