Sunday, April 30, 2006

Using SuSe 10

Today I installed SuSe 10 and even though my Broadcom wireless is not even detected. I did get my D-Link DWL-G650 card working, I do want to try and get the Broadcom going because I don't like carrying more than I have to. I have installed Kismit. So far it has been pretty cool, but I am still learning what I am doing with it, but I like what I see right now. I have also been looking at a few other things like maybe using XFCE for my desktop as I really want to do some more war driving. The main reason for the war driving is to try and get some more customers when they see what I can do with a bare minimum of effort. Now, as of this afternoon I will no longer be providing Internet to anyone other than my family because I have recieved some complaints that the service is slow. It is slow because I choose to limit the people who don't pay for what they recieve, thus as of this afternoon, they will no longer be able to connect to the wireless aspect of my home network. Maybe now that I will have a secure, (or atleast as secure as wireless is) I will be able to do some of the other things that I would like, such as building a base Comodore 64 Emulator. This has been a goal for a little while but as with most things I get flustered and the idea goes to the waste and the computer just sits there and does nothing. This is going to change as I am going to take that computer to a friend and we will sit there and research which OS to use because SuSe 10 will just be too much for it. The computer is a 466 MHZ with 64 MB RAM that was given to me for the purpose of playing around and seeing what all is possible with older hardware. I may have gotten into some good ideas for getting the wireless to run. I found a setting and am waiting for a reply from one of the lists I belong to as to what to do for what it is asking me for, then maybe I will have it.