ten billion butterfly sneezes

I spent yesterday afternoon in my chair, one eye on the NASCAR race, and the other eye and two hands on gypsy, my Fedora-powered laptop.

My wireless connection had been going up and down like a yo-yo, not offline for a long enough time to disconnect sessions, but enough to absolutely kill throughput on downloads. I noticed that wpa_supplicant was running bunches of times, and concluded thet my setup was out of kilter. After a little experimantation, here’s what works for me:

iwconfig ath0 essid "your network name"

wpa_supplicant -Dmadwifi -iath0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -B

dhclient ath0

Secondly, sound had never worked on the machine. My audio device is listed as:

 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)

A quick trip to Uncle Google took me to Help Me Chris!, who proffered

options snd-hda-intel model=3stack

added to /etc/modprobe.conf.

I added it, rebooted, the the gypsy has a voice. Some of the system sounds grated on SWMBO’s last good nerve, so I guess I’ll shut those off. It is nice to know that I can listen to mp3s, podcasts, etc, though.

Thanks, Chris!
-k-