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From: Les Cargill
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:56
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 17:56
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William Sommerwerck wrote: >>> Using anything shortens its working life. > >> I can vouch for the remark made but I can give you more details too: > >> I use smartphones, tablets and laptops to listen to internet radio all the >> time and I've only had one device that suffered because of that. What >> happened to that particular device is the WiFi quit working and it doesn't >> even work after a factory reset. > > Who knows why the WiFi quit? The radio could have failed simply because the > chip went bad. > > HP has had problems with the radios in some of its notebooks. > > This might be where a Knoppix disk can help arbitrate between a software/configuration problem and a hardware failure. Any time I have something fail, I do the "Remove Device"/"Add Device" dance, then update drivers. If that fails, out comes the Knoppix disk. If it *still* fails, it's most likely hardware. I've been lucky so far and nothing has needed a lot of scrounging for Linux device drivers. -- Les Cargill
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From: Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com>
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Subject: Re: Using mobile phone as an internet radio
Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2012 12:56:06 -0500
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