You might remember several months ago, when I finally had fiber installed and was able to get rid of the slow, nasty cable broadband we'd been using.The fiber gets installed into the garage, necessitating the use of a purely wireless network. Not a problem, I said; I had a nice wireless router and wireless devices all over the house. The only computer that would need to be swapped to wireless was the server. Alas, the server kept having connection problems. I noticed the router kind of sucked, so I upgraded to a fancy new Netgear router. Same problem. Bought a new wireless PCI card. Same problem. Formatted, installed a new OS. Same problem. Bought ANOTHER new card. Same problem. Bought a new motherboard. Same problem. So we've gone through two routers, three wireless cards, and two motherboards. Today, I think I've finally settled on what the problem is: wireless cards don't like sharing IRQs with other devices. Fine, then. I'll give it its own IRQ. Except Windows doesn't let you set IRQs manually. Sure, I could reinstall Windows (again) only this time overriding the ACPI HAL and making it use a standard one, but... It would take hours, and hours, and hours to reinstall all the software on there. So I'll probably be going back to stealing the xbox's wireless adapter for the time being, until after christmas or so.If there was any audio production software worth a damn for Linux, I'd have switched a million years ago. If I had any money whatsoever, I'd have purchased a Mac a million years ago. Of course, the money I've dumped into all these extra parts is adding up anyway.. *shrug*God, I hate Microsoft.
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