Posts Tagged ‘Wireless’

So At&T is no longer It’s bullshit – complete bullshit in order to facilitate a way to charge the end-user in the long run.

Sure go ahead and get the ‘power-user’ plan, if you think it’s really going to allow you to be one.  What shit plan name – something to make you feel good about loosing a good thing.

“Ok so, they just want to cut out the people taking advantage of the unlimited plan by tethering their PC’s”

Get real people – if your going to use an excuse like that to justify the end of the ‘unlimited’ your insane.  What’s  so different compared to getting broadband Internet?  I currently pay more for my smart phone unlimited plan than I do for my broadband access.   How does that make sense?  Phone?  Shiiiit…I could add digital phone to my service and still probably pay less every month.

If my provider (*cough” Verizon Wireless “cough*) decides to implement something like AT&T does – I will drop VERIZONS service.

I encourage everyone else to do the same with their providers when these ‘new’ plans hit the waves – its bullshit.

First off, I would like to give a big middle finger to Yahoo! for not making an official messenger for Linux.  Yeah, we have Pidgin, Kopete and the others, but things like webcams, voice, even that dumb little Buzz feature are unavailable.

You would think that a company like Yahoo! would at least make some half-assed client for Linux that would support some of those features… we are a pretty decent sized community now…  Plus, Yahoo Messenger wont work under Wine.  I’ve tried it, others have tried it, it just wont happen.  If you were to install it under Wine, it would look like it installs perfectly, but when you try to login you wont make it past the “Connecting” screen.  Total Bullshit.

Also another bonus finger goes to Nullsoft for not making a WinAmp for Linux.

Someone posted a question in their offical forums asking if they make a version for Linux, one of the moderators replied arrogantly something along the lines of “Use XMMS” (a clone program made by a bunch of some guys).  Nullsoft, with their edgy-looking graphics, splash screens, and their “whips the llama’s ass” sound clips, always tries to come across as some kind of rebelleous, Gen-X type company and they don’t even port their flagship software to the most right-wing operating system?

Posers.

Secondly, I have deleted my post on how to install ndiswrapper and my example of how I installed my PCMCIA card because I found out that my card (Encore Electronics model:ENPWI-G) was slightly incompatible with Linux.

It was the strangest thing, it would connect to my home wifi sometimes. I can’t figure out a more intellegent/ knowledgeable way of describing it: It would just connect some of the time.   If I removed my security from my router (wpa) and made it a completely open network, it would connect every time.  Whenever I enabled wpa, it would… sometimes..  connect, sometimes the first try, sometimes the twentieth try. The issue wasn’t isolated to my home router, I had the same problem whenever I tried to connect to routers at my friends’ houses.   So in short, if you’re looking for a solution to get your Encore Electronics PCMCIA wireless card ENPWI-G to work with wpa, you’re screwed (yes I tried everything, I tried wpa_supplicant, I tried kwlan even though I use gnome and it unsurprisingly doesn’t work right in gnome, I opened nm-applet through console and searched the web with the error message it returned and found out nobody else had my problem, it just isn’t compatible.. at least without being some fucking programmer with a week’s worth of free time).  I saw on Encore’s website that they make another model called ENPWI-G2 that they’ve actually made a driver for linux…  So my advice would probably be to step up the extra dollar or whatever and buy that one.   I ended up trading my Encore card with some of my friends for a Linksys WPC54G ver 1.2 card that actually works with Linux.

Now I’m living the dream, using Linux with Wifi….  Ain’t life grand?

Special thanks Anthony and Karrah for trading WiFi cards with me.  (“Dude, give me a shoutout or something…”)