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Comment on Getting the Alfa AWUS036H working on Ubuntu by rxt

rxt — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:53:04 +0000

Thanks for posting this guide! I was having those same problems with my Alfa AWUS036H w/ 5dbi antenna.

Comment on Getting the Alfa AWUS036H working on Ubuntu by anyonymous

anyonymous — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:08:06 +0000

Thank you, I tried using the backtrack Operating system but it failed so I’m going to use Ubuntu.

Comment on Getting the Alfa AWUS036H working on Ubuntu by static

static — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 02:47:42 +0000

i had trouble getting this to work at my parent’s house. it would connect to the network but then it would get like 30-40% packet loss when i pinged the router and it wouldn’t load web pages.

then i took it to my house and it got on my own wireless network no problem. i put the sucker on top of my car and i could load web pages from about a block away. _nice_. i hope it keeps working for me.

Comment on Remove GRUB from a Mac under OSX by Mikael

Mikael — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:37:25 +0000

Hi there.
I’m also having these weird scenarios and it’s good that there are more people like that so we can find solutions fast Cheers!
Mikael

Comment on Linux not ready for the mass market…why is this a bad thing? by Rei

Rei — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:17:29 +0000

Trust me, I know it’d be far from practical to fork glibc, but part of me just knows there’d be some dumb software company out there who’d rather fork development and put together their own hotch potched version rather than fix their dang code.

But ultimately I don’t think community will matter too much when the mass software industry invades. Its whatever is “profitable” and makes “business sense”, not how to do things properly.

Comment on Linux not ready for the mass market…why is this a bad thing? by proidiot

proidiot — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:51:29 +0000

Perhaps the answer to this potential problem is not to discourage other companies from developing for GNU/Linux, but instead to place even more emphasis in the community on the “worse is better” philosophy of doing only one thing and doing that right. Someone has said (I’m afraid I can’t remember who right off, but I’ll paraphrase) that if a project is big enough to fork, it should have already been split. On the one hand, glibc is one of those few projects that should be large and complex, but on the other hand, by the very nature of libc, not only should it not matter which version of libc you are using, but the potential for forking should be ridiculous since any additional features would belong in a different library, and any fewer features would necessitate a completely new code base. I realize that this in the real world, projects are always going to get bigger than they need to be, but I believe effort towards more common usage of “worse is better” will give better results and be better at achieving those results than efforts to try to slow the coming wave of GNU/Linux development by every warez house on the planet.

Comment on Getting the Alfa AWUS036H working on Ubuntu by Rei

Rei — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 00:09:48 +0000

Most of the problems I’ve found related to the AWUS036H on Linux are due to this particular issue in general. The drivers have a few bugs too, like it will report you have a -89db signal when you in fact have a rather strong connection (and a much higher signal rate than actually reported).

I think part of the problem may also be related to NetworkManager which has a tendency to create chaos on a sane network at times. But ultimately following the steps I prescribed to the letter will get you online at least 9 out of 10 times. I’ve not really seen it not work on my machine

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Comment on Getting the Alfa AWUS036H working on Ubuntu by scotty

scotty — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:13:15 +0000

In reply to your post i think you have a valid point about tx settings as the tx power of the awus036h proberbly exceeds the power of the router your trying to connect to.

I have the problem of connecting to a network with a good signal and not being able to browse the internet? But if i put the adapter on my windows vista system it will connect to the same network and browse the internet. where as most networks do connect and i can see the internet but not to the degree of windows. I am baffeled mabee its a driver prolem i don’t know but it just seems the performance of this adapter is not so good running it on ubuntu. If anyone has experienced this prob I would love to hear from you

Comment on Utilizing the internet as a modern student: Tips from a Master Googler by Rei

Rei — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 21:50:12 +0000

Ah crap, you’re right. I messed up that one.

Comment on Utilizing the internet as a modern student: Tips from a Master Googler by Chris

Chris — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:51:24 +0000

1 Petabyte = 1,048,576 GB just thought I should throw that out there