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Hurricane Ike was a major event in South East Texas and I apologize for the off topic post.

My family and me survived the hurricane OK. The house sustained minor roof damage but thanks to modern engineering it was able to withstand strong category 1 (119–153 km/h 74–95 mph) hurricane force winds. We were also not affected by floods. The only problem we have is no electricity, no phone, no internet and the cell phone service is very erratic. Overall we are in much better shape than the rest of Houston and surrounding areas. Driving around you can see all the destruction. TV images do not do justice to what has really happened here.

I do not know when we can expect power but will have my next post up as soon as possible …

In March I had written a post related to Wireless using W200 on openSUSE 10.3 which happens to be one of the most viewed entry on this blog. Since I wrote that post openSUSE 11.0 has been released and hence am posting an updated version of this howto.

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