If you are calling Skype to Skype and sharing Internet connection with roomies Skype calls can be sometimes painful. I have always used qos-scripts package in OpenWRT distro. But doing Skype qos is not easy without L7 protocol filters. I got finally fed up with choppy Skype calls and installed l7-protocols package. The only [...]
Wireless was a little iffy on the laptop when running 64-bit Karmic. It worked but the signal I was receiving was weak even though I was close to the AP. It would even drop completely once in a while. Often enough to be problematic. The solution was to blacklist ath_pci module, loading ath5k module and [...]