Mike Cohen

Linux ported to Sony PSP

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Via LinuxDevices.com: A self-described “world famous celebrity hacker” has managed to boot uClinux on Sony’s MIPS-based PSP (Playstation Portable). Chris Mulhearn’s port so far lacks support for key PSP peripherals such as the screen, but could interest hackers able to connect serially to the PSP’s “remote headphones” port.

New residents find downtown condos too noisy

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Residents who paid half a million or more for new hi-rise condos in Downtown Fort Lauderdale are complaining about the noise. Now I’m sure these people knew what they were getting into when they bought those condos. They wanted to live downtown for the night life and now they’re complaining about the same night life they were attracted to in the first place. Who was there first? They shouldn’t have moved there if they want quiet.

Wireless is working

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I finally got wireless working on my Dell laptop under Linux. It turned out my Linksys 802.11g PC card was v2 which uses a TI chipset rather than Broadcom. Installing the v2 Linksys driver with ndiswrapper got it working.

One annoying thing about Linksys and many other network hardware manufacturers is that they often use very different chipsets in the product while using the same model number. You can only tell by the serial number or version which one it uses. The WRT54G is especially notorious for this.

Linux Wireless

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Wireless support in Linux just plain sucks. After trying to get WPA working on my Dell Inspiron for a few days, I finally gave up and switched my network back to WEP. I’m still having trouble to get it to connect to my network using my Linksys 802.11g PC card, even though it seems to recognize the card and is able to see the network.

links for 2007-01-23

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