dreaMING of Fusion

Just some long over due update.... I have upgraded to Kubuntu Jaunty 9.04 This time, they have finally got it rt73usb wireless drivers right. I have disabled my own complied driver before upgrade. Now I am using default driver. I have been using it for a few weeks and so far no connection dropping and download speed is good. One little surprise after upgrade was that my display was corrupted when it enters KDM, I can't even go to console mode with Ctrl-Alt-F1. I had to SSH into my machine from another computer and type: aticonfig --initial This configures a default set of display settings into my xorg.conf. After this, everything is working great. The only slight disappointment is that lm-sensors module for my phenom processor is still not available. I can only monitor using mobo sensors. Perhaps I'll try to compile my own module when I have some time later. Now I am just too busy at work and also all the wedding preparation.. sigh..

Recently, my wireless connection seems unreliable. It keeps dropping from time to time unpredictably. I cannot just reconnect it with network-manager. I had to unplug my Linksys WUSB54GC usb stick and plug it again to work. After getting frustrated with this, I finally did a quick google search and found out that this is somewhat a know issue with as describe in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/283759 The suggested solution is to install linux-backports-modules-generic package. I am trying it out now and I'll update this later if it works out well. UPDATE: Nope, not working for my current intrepid kernel: $ uname -rv 2.6.27-9-generic #1 SMP Thu Nov 20 22:15:32 UTC 2008 The kernel module won't even load due to some "unknown symbols" error in the syslog Next, I have also tried compiling the compat-wireless from http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Download but also could not work. This time, the kernel modules could load, but could not connect at all due due to time...