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emperor at 10:19pm on 08/04/2008
emperor at 10:19pm on 08/04/2008Well, the USB-serial dongle still doesn't work under Macos, but I did get Ubuntu to start talking to the wireless. This is achieved by a script which unloads the 80211 modules as well as the bc43xx module, cps the firmware files into /lib/firmware and /lib/firmware-architecture, loads bc43xx again, ifups the interface, then does iwconfig interface essid='name of our network' after a pause of 4 seconds (some pause seemed critical).
I therefore used this setup to scan my books. I have 577 books (excluding some oddments like yearbooks), of which 54 have no ISBN. I'm not sure if I CBA to put them online in any way.
I have worked around the printer problems. Further testing showed that it would work with any port with a switch in the middle, but not directly. Pursuing a possible auto-negotiation option, I used
I therefore used this setup to scan my books. I have 577 books (excluding some oddments like yearbooks), of which 54 have no ISBN. I'm not sure if I CBA to put them online in any way.
I have worked around the printer problems. Further testing showed that it would work with any port with a switch in the middle, but not directly. Pursuing a possible auto-negotiation option, I used
mii-tool --force to specify 10baseT-FD, and lo! it worked. A bit annoying that 100baseTx-FD no longer works, but 10MBps should do for most purposes...
Printer
One of the things I've learnt through reading about network speed issues is that it frequently isn't the actual speed that is the problem, but it is the negotiation of the speed. I would guess that putting the switch in the middle allowed the negotiation to work correctly.
IANANG (I am not a network guru)
Re: Printer