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From: Ben Bacarisse on 26 Nov 2007 20:09 I have a nasty WiFi dead spot at home, so to solve the problem of poor signal I bought a pair of Devolo 'HomePlug' AC Ethernet devices. To give you some degree of security, they must be configured with an encryption key and the set of devices that can join your local net. Imagine my surprise to find a Linux directory on the CD containing source and instructions for building and installing a utility to do this under Linux! I just thought it worth posting good news story for once... -- Ben.
From: Geoffrey Clements on 27 Nov 2007 04:17 "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> wrote in message news:87oddg1okf.fsf(a)bsb.me.uk... >I have a nasty WiFi dead spot at home, so to solve the problem of poor > signal I bought a pair of Devolo 'HomePlug' AC Ethernet devices. To > give you some degree of security, they must be configured with an > encryption key and the set of devices that can join your local net. > > Imagine my surprise to find a Linux directory on the CD containing > source and instructions for building and installing a utility to do > this under Linux! > > I just thought it worth posting good news story for once... > Darn these manufacturers making things easy for us Linux users, they're taking all the sport away ... :-) -- Geoff
From: mike on 28 Nov 2007 20:59 Geoffrey Clements <geoffrey.clementsNO(a)spambaesystems.com> wrote: > "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> wrote in message > news:87oddg1okf.fsf(a)bsb.me.uk... > >I have a nasty WiFi dead spot at home, so to solve the problem of poor > > signal I bought a pair of Devolo 'HomePlug' AC Ethernet devices. To > > give you some degree of security, they must be configured with an > > encryption key and the set of devices that can join your local net. > > > > Imagine my surprise to find a Linux directory on the CD containing > > source and instructions for building and installing a utility to do > > this under Linux! > > > > I just thought it worth posting good news story for once... > > > Darn these manufacturers making things easy for us Linux users, they're > taking all the sport away ... > :-) Bought a new landline phone recently. It came with a printed copy of the GPL think it's the first time I've seen it on paper.
From: Geoffrey Clements on 29 Nov 2007 11:52 <mike(a)emgee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:c1j125-73i.ln1(a)emgee.demon.co.uk... > Geoffrey Clements <geoffrey.clementsNO(a)spambaesystems.com> wrote: >> "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> wrote in message >> news:87oddg1okf.fsf(a)bsb.me.uk... >> >I have a nasty WiFi dead spot at home, so to solve the problem of poor >> > signal I bought a pair of Devolo 'HomePlug' AC Ethernet devices. To >> > give you some degree of security, they must be configured with an >> > encryption key and the set of devices that can join your local net. >> > >> > Imagine my surprise to find a Linux directory on the CD containing >> > source and instructions for building and installing a utility to do >> > this under Linux! >> > >> > I just thought it worth posting good news story for once... >> > > >> Darn these manufacturers making things easy for us Linux users, they're >> taking all the sport away ... > >> :-) > > Bought a new landline phone recently. It came with a printed copy of > the GPL think it's the first time I've seen it on paper. Just out of interest did they supply the source code or tell you how to get it? -- Geoff
From: Whiskers on 29 Nov 2007 14:23
On 2007-11-29, Geoffrey Clements <geoffrey.clementsNO(a)SPAMbaesystems.com> wrote: > <mike(a)emgee.demon.co.uk> wrote in message > news:c1j125-73i.ln1(a)emgee.demon.co.uk... >> Geoffrey Clements <geoffrey.clementsNO(a)spambaesystems.com> wrote: >>> "Ben Bacarisse" <ben.usenet(a)bsb.me.uk> wrote in message >>> news:87oddg1okf.fsf(a)bsb.me.uk... >>> >I have a nasty WiFi dead spot at home, so to solve the problem of poor >>> > signal I bought a pair of Devolo 'HomePlug' AC Ethernet devices. To >>> > give you some degree of security, they must be configured with an >>> > encryption key and the set of devices that can join your local net. >>> > >>> > Imagine my surprise to find a Linux directory on the CD containing >>> > source and instructions for building and installing a utility to do >>> > this under Linux! >>> > >>> > I just thought it worth posting good news story for once... >>> > >> >>> Darn these manufacturers making things easy for us Linux users, they're >>> taking all the sport away ... >> >>> :-) >> >> Bought a new landline phone recently. It came with a printed copy of >> the GPL think it's the first time I've seen it on paper. > > Just out of interest did they supply the source code or tell you how to get > it? You dial an answer-phone number and have it read out to you at dictation speed? -- -- ^^^^^^^^^^ -- Whiskers -- ~~~~~~~~~~ |