Thu Mar 27 20:12:04 PST 2003

Serious setbacks today.

I tried giving my Intel Create and Share camera another try with the drivers over at http://sourceforge.net/projects/spca50x/ and gqcam http://cse.unl.edu/~cluening/gqcam/ in the hopes that I could clearly identify the functionality to write up exactly what wasn’t working and send it into the mailing list. Unfortunately after it ran for a bit and poked at a few options and then suddenly the machine crashed… Oops!

So after it rebooted I decided that maybe I shouldn’t be playing around with highly experimental drivers.

Next up, wireless drivers under Windows XP. I found the Proxim RangeLAN-DS drivers for XP on their web site. Unfortunately while they installed smoothly and the drivers seemed to work OK, but I couldn’t get it to DHCP off the WAP. I tried all the settings suggested in the README. The "open mode" found the AP, but couldn’t DHCP. When running in "shared key" mode it couldn’t find the AP. And the weird thing was that the "eject devices" stuff didn’t ever show the card.

So, then it was time to retry the Lucent Orinoco card again. I stuck it in to and tried to uninstall the default driver that came with XP in the hopes that replacing it with the Lucent driver to try and prevent the card from blue screening XP (Yes, I managed to BSOD XP using only the code provided on the hard drive). It BSODed when I tried to uninstall the driver, but it must of worked since I reinstalled the Lucent stuff it appeared as the driver when I plugged in the card. Unfortunately, less than a minute in, it BSODed again. I even tried using my other Lucent card with more reboots.

Seems like it’s time to by a D-Link or a Linksys. I know people have used them sucessfully with the IBM WinXP laptops.

I’m almost afraid to try getting my Zaurus to work with the Linux box. Too many things going wrong tonight…