Babbling of funkytoad

ASUS Eee PC 901 Wireless Pending

Posted by Funkytoad on October 15th 2008 to Regular Ramblings

So to start, this isn’t my fix. I found this fix after many many hours of searching. Here’s the source: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=11650 (pj’s post below)

Now the author is “pj”. Don’t know nuthin’ ’bout pj, but the person got it right. Out of the box my ASUS linux beauty worked every time connecting to my wireless. However after some haphazzard BIOS upgrades I started receiving the ole “wireless pending” non-sense.

After many attempts at “sudo boulderdash” and “stand on head, press ctrl-alt-t, yell ‘IE is bloated cheese’ ” and do the same, but only after the earths polar shift - confirmed by the toilet flushing the other direction etc. , did I find pj’s post which has proved effective now 30 for 30 boot ups - easy or advanced mode. I give you Pj’s fix:

“run sudo XandrosFileManager (open the file manager as root)
find file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-enter-hooks.d/debug
open the file and change the line:

RUN=”no”

to

RUN=”yes”

This is intended to debug the file by putting the results in /tmp/dhclient-script.debug. It does, but the system worked immediately afterwards!

There is a file file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-exit-hooks.d/debug, but I have not changed that - yet!

Hope that this works for you too”

And that’s all she wrote. You might be wondering what’s a goofball like funkytoad, who codes for windows, be doing with a linux box? Simple, enjoying far far less non-sense, despite what this post may indicate… Why Pj’s fix works is well beyond me? Just hoping to save someone some time. -ft

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Holiday Reminder

Posted by Bob on December 09th 2007 to Bob's World, Welcome & Announcements

As the Holidays come around, it’s time to remind everyone that you need to be careful with those fancy Holiday plants. Check to be sure they are not poisonous to your Cats before bringing them into your house! And also not poisonous to those big hairy dopey house pets, the dawgs.

-Bob

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Homer Pro v1.4

Posted by Funkytoad on September 15th 2007 to Beta Releases, Regular Ramblings

Homer Pro v1.4 is ready for a few good testers. I am looking for a couple XP testers and particularly a couple Vista testers. First come first serve.

Homer Pro will be sold and not a freebie, Testers will receive 1 seat license for their efforts. Email me here if interested: Contact Funkytoad

Advantages and Changes in Homer Pro:

Includes Start-up options via the registry.
Hide Homer at start up.
Runs under limited user accounts.
Full install/uninstall.
Reports total “hits” versus actual “Images served”.
Better java script handling, no or very few script errors under IE.
Image Directory selection.

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HostsXpert 4.1 beta 1

Posted by Funkytoad on August 11th 2007 to Beta Releases

Greetings,

Long time no blog activity! But back now with a beta.
This beta brings the ability to retrieve the current file date
of HpHosts and MVPs Hosts files so you can compare it
to your last download date (also reported).
In addition, the color changing of HostsXpert, which it could do
since v4.0 though never mentioned :) will now be ”remembered”.
Both changes result in the creation of an ini file that will
appear in your HostsXpert directory. Oh also - a slightly
larger file size, ie. new components needed
to be used for the file date checking.

Where to check for updates:

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