Johns Blog » NSLU2 http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr Making your brain invert and fall out of your ear since 2007 Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:37:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Me? Lucky? http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2007/12/29/me-lucky/ http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/2007/12/29/me-lucky/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 20:42:32 +0000 John Carr http://blogs.gnome.org/johncarr/?p=47 I don’t know why, but I seem to be good at buying hardware that works well with Linux. My friends have (brand spanking new) PC’s that won’t even load an Ubuntu live CD, yet I have two laptops that work great, straight out of the box. Yesterday I went to Tesco and purchased myself a Philips SNU 5600. Just found it all alone on a shelf and a quick phone google showed it had a native driver (zd1211rw).. And there I was thinking i’d never find a USB Wifi adaptor that would just work.

So I went home, dug out my NSLU2 and booted it up. I run Debian on it with a 2.6.21 kernel, so all I had to do was install the firmware (apt-get install zd1211-firmware) and plug it in.

I had a slight moment of fear though:
SoftMAC: Open Authentication with XX:XX:Xx:XX:XX:XX failed, error code: 12

A bit of kernel grepping later: Turns out that error 12 is WLAN_STATUS_ASSOC_DENIED_UNSPEC, and my router was set to only let known MAC addresses connect! Doh!

So now I have a wireless linux box tucked away in the wardrobe, serving my OGGs to anyone of my devices thats interested… Now to setup streaming to my smartphone!

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