[ale] Cisco Valet connector, Ubuntu 14.04, and me.

[bugyatl at gmail.com (Boris Borisov)]

Looks like you are back in early Linux days, fighting with drivers. Do you
remember Slackware with vanilla kernel and you just purchased exotic
wireless card :-)
On Apr 21, 2014 5:56 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> so, noticed my sound has been all distorted since I upgraded to 14.04 the
> other day.  Thought it was feedback through a skype connection (playing a
> game and talking to my brother, playing the same game).  so today, played
> some music and sounds like the speakers were blown.  OK confirmed problem
> with the sound system.
>
> swapped out speakers.  Same issue.  What?  Ubuntu has crappy sound drivers
> or my sound chip on the MB is bad.
>
> Swapped out OS (rebooted into win).  Played same game.  Perfect sound.
>  Dang.  time for a sound card, no need to buy a new MB.
>
> well, maybe it IS crappy drivers, try an  update.  Yup, there was one.
>  installed it, it modified linux headers in some way and a new boot image
> was generated.
>
> reboot.  no wireless.
>
> no connection with wireless extension.  Pluged in my spare, not seen.
>  modprobe rt2870sa, no module found.  Pluged in a different brand usb
> wireless adapter,  modify WICD to say "wlan1" vs wlan0, refresh, BAM!
>  wireless.  bummer.  I picked up a spare Valet for $12.99  just because it
> worked so well for Ubuntu 13.10.  Uname says 3.11.0-19-generic
>
> Reminds me that Ubuntu is an old African word that means "can't configure
> Debian, and distrusts RedHat"
>
> Remind me again WHY I want to keep up with Ubuntu and don't run Debian or
> Fedora on my desktop (run Debian on my laptop in a kick but openstack that
> eats up 554MB of RAM while running htop, gkerllm, pretty desktop,
> cairo-dock, and firefox).
>
> anybody else run into issues with the Cisco Valet?
>
> When I feel like playing with it, I will take it over to my laptop, but
> since I also do this for a living, it has kinda lost it's shinny allure to
> troubleshoot a home issue.  Now days, I just act more like the water than
> the rock.  OHM, OHM.
>
> --
> Damon L. Chesser
> damon at damtek.com
> http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
>
>
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