[ale] Cisco Valet connector, Ubuntu 14.04, and me.

[Damon L. Chesser]

On 04/22/2014 01:41 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>
> Roll back to 13.10? Test 14.04 on a VM?
>

Hmm, I could, if by rollback you mean re-install and restore data. 
should have installed in a vm and attempted to passthrough the usb 
wireless card.  Now that sounds interesting...

Most likely, I will test on my Debian laptop and get it running there, 
and refresh my memory on how I got it to work on 13.10.  Then revisit 
Ubuntu again on my desktop.  I am at a loss to explain why that kernel 
module just "went away" when it was there in 14.04, was there for three 
days, a (rather) small update of (who knows what packages, I was not 
looking) was performed and it went away.  I thought it died, but the new 
wireless of the same make does not register either.  Strange.


> On Apr 21, 2014 5:56 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon at damtek.com 
> <mailto:damon at damtek.com>> wrote:
>
>     so, noticed my sound has been all distorted since I upgraded to
>     14.04 the other day.  Thought it was feedback through a skype
>     connection (playing a game and talking to my brother, playing the
>     same game).  so today, played some music and sounds like the
>     speakers were blown.  OK confirmed problem with the sound system.
>
>     swapped out speakers.  Same issue.  What?  Ubuntu has crappy sound
>     drivers or my sound chip on the MB is bad.
>
>     Swapped out OS (rebooted into win).  Played same game.  Perfect
>     sound.  Dang.  time for a sound card, no need to buy a new MB.
>
>     well, maybe it IS crappy drivers, try an  update.  Yup, there was
>     one.  installed it, it modified linux headers in some way and a
>     new boot image was generated.
>
>     reboot.  no wireless.
>
>     no connection with wireless extension.  Pluged in my spare, not
>     seen.  modprobe rt2870sa, no module found.  Pluged in a different
>     brand usb wireless adapter,  modify WICD to say "wlan1" vs wlan0,
>     refresh, BAM!  wireless.  bummer.  I picked up a spare Valet for
>     $12.99  just because it worked so well for Ubuntu 13.10.  Uname
>     says 3.11.0-19-generic
>
>     Reminds me that Ubuntu is an old African word that means "can't
>     configure Debian, and distrusts RedHat"
>
>     Remind me again WHY I want to keep up with Ubuntu and don't run
>     Debian or Fedora on my desktop (run Debian on my laptop in a kick
>     but openstack that eats up 554MB of RAM while running htop,
>     gkerllm, pretty desktop, cairo-dock, and firefox).
>
>     anybody else run into issues with the Cisco Valet?
>
>     When I feel like playing with it, I will take it over to my
>     laptop, but since I also do this for a living, it has kinda lost
>     it's shinny allure to troubleshoot a home issue.  Now days, I just
>     act more like the water than the rock.  OHM, OHM.
>
>     -- 
>     Damon L. Chesser
>     damon at damtek.com <mailto:damon at damtek.com>
>     http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
>
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