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		<title>Sound setup for Skype on Gentoo Linux</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I use Skype extensively for communication with clients as well as low cost international calls. But, I have to admit that every time the configuration of the sound system on my Asus V6J (Gentoo powered) it takes me several days to get the microphone working again (even though it continues to work with every other [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wireless (wifi) setup with iwl3945</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 08:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since my last kernel upgrade (linux-2.6.25-gentoo-r7) on my Asus V6J laptop wireless networking, which was working perfectly, suddenly stopped. 



The setting up process goes like this&#8230;





ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:30:bd:9b:94:5c
wlan0: Initial auth_alg=0
wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:30:bd:9b:94:5c
wlan0: RX authentication from 00:30:bd:9b:94:5c (alg=0 transaction=2 status=0)
wlan0: authenticated
wlan0: associate with AP 00:30:bd:9b:94:5c
iwl3945: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Netgear WiFi WG311 on Mepis Update</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have just completed upgrading a workstation from Mepis 6.5 to Mepis 7

After this finished (relatively painless) my WiFi did not start. Turns out that the same issues, and the same solution, applied as I described in my earlier post.]]></description>
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		<title>Netgear WG311 (Ver 3) Wireless Network Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Sep 2007 23:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wireless networking is ideal for home and small office networks avoiding the costs of cabling, patch panels and allowing complete freedom of workstation location. Also, visitors with laptops can easily use your internet connection or share files easily.

In both my home and office I use a combination of wired and wireless networking. Basically, servers are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Realtek RTL8168 and Gentoo</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nigel Ball</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My ASUS V6X00J (V6J) has a Realtek 8168 gigabit PCI ethernet card. Since getting the machine I have been painstakingly compiling the driver from http://realtek.com.tw (firstly R1000 and more recently R8168).

However, since kernel version 2.6.22 these no longer compile. But&#8230;

The kernel driver for the Realtek 8169 also works for the RTL8168, even though there is [...]]]></description>
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