
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Back to the blogosphere
Life happens the way it happens. Seems rather bizarre I haven't blogged in such a long time, but it's time to get back to it. I'm still mucking with QEMU on Solaris, but not much these days as I've been working on extending the open solaris zyd driver (USB 2.0 WIFI). Funny how a $15 device can make you spend weeks of time trying to make a driver work for it, especially when the openbsd folks basically have all the bits.
Oh well. it's moving forward. I just wished I'd known what I was getting into when trying to expand a driver whose hardware encompasses something like 70 different vendors, 2 chipsets, and at least 5 known working radios.
Other fun stuff has been sticking a USB 2.0 card in the 64-bit, 66Mhz slot of the LX50 I just loaded up with Solaris Express B84 and Ubuntu 7.10 so I can do some performance testing on the zyd driver. Now if I could only get the Radeon 9100 actually displaying in the 66Mhz slot, since Ubuntu saw it in the /var/log/Xorg.0.log file.