So, as I blogged previously, I’ve been re-appropriating some old PCs and sticking Ubuntu 11.10 on them. I had one doing exactly what I wanted it to do in the context of my home automation network with one small but annoying exception. Whenever I would play music through headphones or speakers, there would be a…
Previously, I posted about odyssey to get belkin wireless dongles working with Ubuntu. Actually, the previous post was tame compared to what I’ve hacked together with these things over the years, including getting them to work on Damn Small Linux where I had to ferret out the text for the entire wpa_supplicant configuration using kernel…
This is another one of those posts that’s more for my reference, but if anyone else finds it useful, so much the better… So, a few years ago, I bought some Belkin wireless USB dongles (F5D7050 is the chipset, I believe). I’ve gotten these working with a few different Linux distros, but the one I…
As I’ve previously mentioned, one of the things that I spend a good bit of time doing is home automation. For prototyping, I have a bunch of very old computers that I’ve acquired for free. These are scattered around the house (much to the dismay of anyone with a sense of decor) and I use…
