I was just upgrading WordPress and noticed I haven’t said much in a while! Not for lack of anything going on, but it’s mostly been personal stuff and work stuff. Seeing as this is already a meta post, I’ll summarize for those following my stream that care (hello, facebook).
I use ubuntu (now kubuntu, whatevs) and had the little network manager applet go AWOL on me - it was stuck with “manual configuration” and wouldn’t do its magic for me. Now, I’ve had to write my own nastiness for ifup/down scripts before, so I could cope, but it sucked. I have looked around, but only recently found a page with the solution to the problem. Life is tastes better now.
http://www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/3562391
Unfortunately this article doesn’t mention that Linksys did stop selling this unit. They sell a different unit (which does not run Linux) under the same name, and took the Linux version and renamed it the WRT54GL (the L is for Linux… GET IT?!?) and added $15 to the price. Because of this stupid maneuver I have to ship the one I bought back, and get the new one. Grrr. Hopefully the new firmware is as good as people say, because the WRT54G v5 that I bought (without Linux, with VxWorks) crashed every 4 hours for no reason.