Fix for Asus Chromebook Flip C302CA Not Charging

I had a mild heart attack this evening when I tried to charge my Asus Chromebook Flip C302CA and nothing would happen. Unfortunately those who have a USB C charger here were already in bed, so I couldn't check if it was the charger or the Chromebook itself. Turns out it was the latter. A quick Google search turned up this Reddit post with a solution. I just had to hold the reload button and then tap the power button. Apparently that does an EC reset that resets the charging controller. Now it is safely recharging. Crisis averted.

Brother HL-L2350DW and WiFi

I bought a new Brother HL-L2350DW because my old Brother printer was needing a new drum and had some other minor issues. It served me well for many years. However, I noticed with the HL-L2350DW that after it went to sleep, it wouldn't wake up to print. Hitting buttons, opening and closing the lid on it, etc. didn't help. After a little Googling I found a culprit. I had to change a setting on my router (Asus RT-86U). It's under Wireless->Professional. I had to switch "Airtime Fairness" to "Disable." Thankfully it just has to be on the 2.4Ghz channel so it shouldn't be a big deal to my network (hopefully).

Now if I could just figure out how to get my Chromebook to work with it without using Google Cloud Print . . .

UEFI and Slackware 14.2

I inherited my dad's computer that has Secure Boot/UEFI. Here's what I had to do to get elilo to work:

1. Create an initrd (I'm using the generic kernel). I used this command in the /boot directory:
   mkinitrd -c -k 4.4.115 -m ext4 -f ext4 -r /dev/sda3
   This assumes that you are using ext4 and that /dev/sda3 is root
2. Copy initrd.gz, vmlinuz-generic-4.4.115, and vmlinuz-huge to /boot/efi/EFI/Slackware
3. Edit elilo.conf to reflect the boot parameters you want. Mine looks like this:
   default=generic
prompt chooser=simple
delay=100
timeout=100
#
image=vmlinuz-generic-4.4.115
     initrd=initrd.gz
     root=/dev/sda3
     label=generic
     description="Slackware64 14.2"
     read-only

image=vmlinuz
     root=/dev/sda3
     label=huge description="Slackware64 14.2 Huge"
     read-only
     append="root=/dev/sda3 vga=normal ro"