{"id":457,"date":"2004-08-04T14:12:00","date_gmt":"2004-08-04T14:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=457"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T07:00:00","slug":"wireless-in-linux-and-doom-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/2004\/08\/wireless-in-linux-and-doom-3\/","title":{"rendered":"#*$)#@ WIRELESS IN LINUX!! And Doom 3 %)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I got up a little after 6 this morning, made myself a cup of coffee and wandered upstairs. I decided that I was going to tackle my laptop’s wireless issues once and for all.<\/p>\n

7 hours and a burned knoppix 3.4 cd (which didn’t work with my card either) later I was actually further from my goal than when I started. I managed to uninstall all pcmcia stuff only to realize too late that I didn’t have the debs backed up anymore so my testing was done for the day HAHAHA. I rock. My only hope now is either burning the debs to a cd, or using knoppix + Michael’s card to get the debs back on my laptop. Bleh. There are a couple how-tos I might try tomorrow, but they both require entirely new kernels, possibly patches, which I’d also need to move over to the laptop.<\/p>\n

I’m quickly losing my faithfulness to debian on this laptop. At this point I’m not sure I care what distro the stupid thing runs on, as long as it works. Windows still is not an option, because I’d hate it, I know it is possible to get this card to work in linux!<\/p>\n

I shouldn’t beat myself up over this, this is a tricky card even for really smart linux people, and what do I understand about modules? Very little. What do I understand about PCMCIA? Uh, that’s a thing for laptops right? So I probably should have tried something a bit easier for my first venture into poorly documented module meddling in debian. But I wanted so badly to get this working %(!<\/p>\n

I was a bit frustrated after spending so much time on this, especially since toward the end I felt like I had no idea what I was doing. Mostly I wanted to throw my laptop out the window and shoot it a few dozen times.<\/p>\n

So I went to Mars 2145.<\/p>\n

YAYAYAY DOOM 3!!!<\/p>\n

I installed Doom 3 on my Windows partition this afternoon. It’s nice to have a Windows game now and then so that harddrive doesn’t die from lack of use %) And boy did my computer have a work out! This game is so crazy, my geforce3 could handle it but it was choppy at times. And load times, oh boy, 2.0ghz p4 + 512mb ddr ram was not enough to lower load time for levels to under a minute (estimate, I didn’t actually count, it felt like a while…). Still, it was quite playable, even if it was a pretty dark game.<\/p>\n

\"Doom<\/a>
\na couple more shots here<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n

And of course I got to kill things, which is what I was in the mood for.<\/p>\n

I’m currently baking some potatoes to make some twice baked potatoes<\/a> (without the bacon) for dinner. Yum yum!<\/p>\n

So now I must attend to those. *wanders off*<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/b> These Doom3 screenshots were taken at lowest graphics intensity for the game.<\/lj-cut><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got up a little after 6 this morning, made myself a cup of coffee and wandered upstairs. I decided that I was going to tackle my laptop’s wireless issues once and for all. 7 hours and a burned knoppix 3.4 cd (which didn’t work with my card either) later I was actually further from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/princessleia.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}