Weekly Shaarli
Week 48 (November 29, 2021)
No need for crossover cables anymore, (yay) and a couple of simple NetworkManager commands are all that is needed.
A Raspberry Pi WiFi Extender is a cheap and power efficient way of increasing the total range of your WiFi Network by just using two Wi-Fi adaptors.
Extended media server / home server setup for ARM devices, but the setup configuration can presumably also be mostly applied to X86 devices.
Fixing the network performance of a very specific laptop wifi chip pretty easily (especially for NetworkManager).
Currently the best approach on my Lenovo is the parameter set:
modprobe rtl8723be fwlps=0 ant_sel=2 ips=0 swlps=0 swenc=0 disable_watchdog=0
But it also worked with other configurations and does not seem stable. Some suggest turning swenc and swlps on for better perfomance.
Explanation of options here