Zero Signal

The wireless network is now working on Fedora 10 on Cell Linux. Lets start with the PS3 Wireless howto - now out of date, but sufficient to configure wpa_supplicant. Once connected, fire up dhclient, and we are online. This is glossing over the faff to get the connection brought up on boot, see the forums and random other pages for that.

I also had to remove the -u option in the /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant file in order to get the service to start on boot. Hmm.

I should write a decent guide on setup, but its late, I'm tired, and quite sure it would be obsolete in a little time anyway.

The elinks browser is sufficient to read the BBC, albeit in a horrendous default colour scheme.

Be Quick or Be Dead

Cell Linux - now I remember why I haven't bothered to administer or install Linux for years. Some documentation on the (many) steps needed for the particular version I have to install is here. Got to love any system this decade that fails to support WiFi. Once the obsolete and buggy packages get dumped on disk, apply ~1.0GB of patches and updates as detailed in the yum FAQ on updating and upgrading. The admin docs are a work in progress.

Its fun to try and seperate generic Linux config tweaks from distribution and architecture specific ones. Its like going back to Slackware vs Redhat in 1996....

On an aside, the IP address of this particular router is 192.168.1.254 for now.

The by now familiar refrain for Linux is that it all works better in a more recent version. This may be true. Got to love a website that is simply the directory layout of the FTP server over HTTP.