On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:19:15 I wrote: > Two problems remain (until I solve those and expose the next layer!): > > 1. On starting X I find that the keyboard and mouse are not connected. I > can ssh in and reboot the machine, so it's still alive - just not > responsive to me at the keyboard. I've tried an xorg.conf from X > -configure, and I've tried without. More investigation to do here.
This one was easy, though I didn't find the answer straight away - it seems I'd omitted to add hald and dbus to the default run-level. > 2. The wireless network. This uses an Atheros chip, device 168c:002b, not > quite the same as the chips described on gentoo-wiki. Has anyone here got > this system working? Do I need madwifi, for instance? The old laptop this > netbook will replace has a madwifi installation that I could plagiarise. No problem here either. If anyone wants to know what I did to get the wlan working they've only to ask. -- Rgds Peter
