[ale] Cisco Valet connector, Ubuntu 14.04, and me.

[Wolf Halton]

A couple of years ago (2010, IIRC) I had my sound module disappear for 6
months and when the new version of Kubuntu came out, the sound module was
back.  Sometimes you take the rough with the smooth.

Wolf Halton

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On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 4:20 PM, Damon L. Chesser <damon at damtek.com> wrote:

> On 04/22/2014 01:41 PM, Wolf Halton wrote:
>
>>
>> Roll back to 13.10? Test 14.04 on a VM?
>>
>>
> Hmm, I could, if by rollback you mean re-install and restore data. should
> have installed in a vm and attempted to passthrough the usb wireless card.
>  Now that sounds interesting...
>
> Most likely, I will test on my Debian laptop and get it running there, and
> refresh my memory on how I got it to work on 13.10.  Then revisit Ubuntu
> again on my desktop.  I am at a loss to explain why that kernel module just
> "went away" when it was there in 14.04, was there for three days, a
> (rather) small update of (who knows what packages, I was not looking) was
> performed and it went away.  I thought it died, but the new wireless of the
> same make does not register either.  Strange.
>
>
>  On Apr 21, 2014 5:56 PM, "Damon L. Chesser" <damon at damtek.com <mailto:
>> damon at damtek.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     so, noticed my sound has been all distorted since I upgraded to
>>     14.04 the other day.  Thought it was feedback through a skype
>>     connection (playing a game and talking to my brother, playing the
>>     same game).  so today, played some music and sounds like the
>>     speakers were blown.  OK confirmed problem with the sound system.
>>
>>     swapped out speakers.  Same issue.  What?  Ubuntu has crappy sound
>>     drivers or my sound chip on the MB is bad.
>>
>>     Swapped out OS (rebooted into win).  Played same game.  Perfect
>>     sound.  Dang.  time for a sound card, no need to buy a new MB.
>>
>>     well, maybe it IS crappy drivers, try an  update.  Yup, there was
>>     one.  installed it, it modified linux headers in some way and a
>>     new boot image was generated.
>>
>>     reboot.  no wireless.
>>
>>     no connection with wireless extension.  Pluged in my spare, not
>>     seen.  modprobe rt2870sa, no module found.  Pluged in a different
>>     brand usb wireless adapter,  modify WICD to say "wlan1" vs wlan0,
>>     refresh, BAM!  wireless.  bummer.  I picked up a spare Valet for
>>     $12.99  just because it worked so well for Ubuntu 13.10.  Uname
>>     says 3.11.0-19-generic
>>
>>     Reminds me that Ubuntu is an old African word that means "can't
>>     configure Debian, and distrusts RedHat"
>>
>>     Remind me again WHY I want to keep up with Ubuntu and don't run
>>     Debian or Fedora on my desktop (run Debian on my laptop in a kick
>>     but openstack that eats up 554MB of RAM while running htop,
>>     gkerllm, pretty desktop, cairo-dock, and firefox).
>>
>>     anybody else run into issues with the Cisco Valet?
>>
>>     When I feel like playing with it, I will take it over to my
>>     laptop, but since I also do this for a living, it has kinda lost
>>     it's shinny allure to troubleshoot a home issue.  Now days, I just
>>     act more like the water than the rock.  OHM, OHM.
>>
>>     --     Damon L. Chesser
>>     damon at damtek.com <mailto:damon at damtek.com>
>>     http://www.linkedin.com/in/dchesser
>>
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