Re: SpeedStep-Problem
Hi There, Looks like you've got a Pentium 4-M system, not a centrino. This is the same as my machine (Dell Inspiron 8500). So, build the speedstep-ich module: Intel Speedstep on ICH-M chipsets (ioport interface) rather than the 'enhanced speedstep' module. This module should load cleanly into your kernel and you should be fine from there. I've been using the powernowd daemon (http://packages.debian.org/powernowd) with good success on my machine - note for this you'll need sysfs mounted and the userspace governor loaded as well. Hope all this helps. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:23, astryx wrote: > FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino > (/lib/modules/2.6.7-rgw/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko): > No such device > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 13 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz > stepping : 6 -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: SpeedStep-Problem
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:51, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> Looks like you've got a Pentium 4-M system, not a centrino. This is the
Argh - Looks like I jumped the gun :)
My machine says:
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz
> model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
So it looks like they're different machines after all - and if you're
machine is new, then it probably is a centrino - sorry about any
confusion!
M.
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Re: Wireless card recommendations
Hi Robert,
I've been using the Proxim a/b/g gold card in my debian system and
haven't had any problems with it at all. The driver is available at the
madwifi project at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi
Cheers,
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On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:42, Robert Goley wrote:
> I have to get 4 pcmcia wireless card for various Dell laptops that we
> have here in the office. All of these machines are dual boot Windows
> XP/Debian Sarge. I want to put "G" cards in these machines. I would
> also like to use native linux drivers if possible. Anyone have
> suggestions or recommendations or similar setup in use?
>
> Robert
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Re: cannot hibernate Dell Latitude D600 (priceless info)
Hi Alexandru, Alexandru Cabuz wrote: There is actually only one function that I would really like to have: the ability to turn the backlight off. I'd be happy just with that. Might good old apm do it? (I also have 1G of memory). I do this with Brightside, perhaps install it and set up an active corner to turn your display off. Hope this helps. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: minipci card for dell inspiron 4100
Hi Michael, Hope all is going well mate. I've got an Inspiron 8500, and I bought/installed the Proxim Orinoco Gold card, which was a 802.11a/b/g mini-PCI card. It works fine under Debian with the GPL madwifi (atheros) driver. There's also a debian package available for building kernel module source packages of the driver as well. Details are at: http://people.debian.org/~crafterm/inspiron8500.html Hope this helps. Cheers, Marcus Michael Perry wrote: I'm running a Dell Inspiron I4100 and it has a empty minipci slot which could take a wireless card. I've looked around a bit and found a atheros chipset which I think would work with the madwifi drivers and a few others. Has anyone installed a minipci card in something similar to the 4100? I'm just looking for minipci cards of the 802.11g variety which would not require ndiswrapper or linuxant ideally. If that cannot happen, I could do linuxant easily for it. Thanks! -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless network problems
Hi Tim, Hope all is well. Mate, you'll probably need to take a look at the madwifi project at sf.net to get the Gold card working (assuming it's operating with the Atheros chipset). I've got the 802.11/a/b/g gold card (miniPCI) and it works fine with this driver. Kernel wise, you'll need any 2.4.x kernel (check the madwifi docs), with it's associated headers so you can build the necessary madwifi kernel modules. Hope that helps. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:05:08PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having trouble getting an orinoco gold card to work on my > laptop with woody using the bf24 kernel. I'm a newbie and am thinking > about taking the plunge and trying to compile a custom kernel. Does > anyone have any recommendations for a kernel that would best support > wireless networking with woody? > > Thanks, > > Tim > > Andy Firman wrote: > > >>eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID: 1ecb13: Nickname: "Folger" > >>Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.412GHz Access Point: 00:02:2D:1E:CB:13 > >>Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm Sensitivity:1/3 RTS thr:off > >>Fragment thr:2347B Encryption key: off Link Quality:27/92 Signal level: > >>-69dBm > >>Noise level:-96dBm > >>Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag: 0 > >>Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > >> > >>When I run cardctl ident I get: > >> > >>Socket 1: > >> Product info: "Lucent Technologies", "Wavelan/IEEE", > >>"Version 01.01", "" > >>function: 6 (network) > >> > >>I'm wondering if my problem could simply be something to do with > >>permissions. I noticed that in one of your earlier messages you could > >>run cardctl at a $ prompt, but I had to be root. Same thing for > >>iwconfig. I added myself to the dialout and dip groups, but still can't > >>connect to the internet. > >> > >> > > > >Looks like your card is seeing the access point. Good. > > > >What does ifconfig say? > > > >You need to be root to run iwconfig, cardctl, and ifconfig. > >I use sudo most of the time. > > > >If you are not getting an IP from the AP, then you can try giving > >yourself and IP manually such as: > > > >ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.5 > > > >then do this: > > > >route add default gateway 192.168.1.1 > > > >(assuming your RG is 192.168.1.1 and you on a standard > >private network 192.168.1.0/24) > > > >Then see if you can ping the AP. > > > >Like I said before, the Orinoco cards did not work well for me until > >I compiled a custom kernel. This may be a bit of a challenge for you, > >but once you learn how to do thisit will make things easier. > > > >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > > >Debian is not easy for beginners. But if you stick with it, > >you will be happy in the future. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell 8600 WUXGA (1920x1200, 15.4", NVidia chipset)
Hi Tony, Hope all is well mate. Sounds like a nice machine :) Not sure if this helps much but I have an Inspiron 8500/WUXGA, with the NVidia chipset as well. I think the chipset you have could be newer than that in mine - however hopefully the binary driver from nvidia supports it just the same. I've got X running on my system at 1920x1200, attached is my XF86Config-4 file. Hope that helps getting X up at full resolution. It's quite nice to work with when you have that much screen real estate :) Cheers, Marcus On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:19:17PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > Hi, all. > > [ sorry if you got this twice- I sent it to debian-user > first, by mistake :-( ] > > Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display > (1920x1200). Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0 > (Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what > LindowsOS is based on), but trying to get it to the full width. > > lspci says it has an unknown NVidia chipset... > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0324 (rev a1) > > Does anyone know if this chip is handled in the newer > kernels (I ran 2.6.0 on my last laptop for a while, but > can't seem to get xandros to come up off a customized > kernel) or a newer version of XFree86. > > I've poked around tuxmobil etc, and there's supposed to be a > NVidia driver, but it's not clear that it would work with this > model, plus I'd rather avoid a proprietary driver (I've not > been able to back out installs of proprietary software very > well in the past). > > Any help (experience or speculation) appreciated, especially > combos and configs (XF86Config-4 and kernel) known to work > on this (a bit too proprietary in retrospect) beast. > > Oh, I'm running Xandros 1.0 but with a lot of stuff upgraded > to debian testing. Any tips for vanilla Debian are also > welcome, as I wouldn't mind switching back to that (I'm not > getting that much use out of the Xandros added-value stuff, > except for eye-candy, which is readily available elsewhere). > > By the way, Xandros' X startup seems to have a pretty good > try-and-fallback startup system for X; I'm trying to figure > out how it works. > > -- Tony > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section "Files" FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"record" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard&quo
Re: Dell 8600 WUXGA (1920x1200, 15.4", NVidia chipset)
Hi Tony,
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:57:26AM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Marcus.
>
> Any tips on how to install a proprietary driver "safely"
> (i.e. in a way that can be backed out if it doesn't work
> right)? I suppose I could just do a complete backup.
I installed the nvidia driver via the debian package (nvidia-glx and
nvidia-kernel-source) which should be reversible. Worked fine for me - I'm
running sid though - will these packages work with your debian-like
distribution?
Cheers,
Marcus
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Re: Dell & Debian ?
Hi James, I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 which i bought back in March last year. It's been running Debian sid since the day it was delivered and has been working well. X runs fine (I have an NVidia video card which works with their binary driver fine), as does sound, disk, usb1/2, pcmcia, etc. This particular machine has a 15.4" wide screen display on it, maximum resolution of 1920x1200. X works fine with this :) A few months ago I had suspend to disk working fine when suspending from the console, suspending from X had a restart issue - but I'm looking into that again soon with a 2.6 kernel rather than the 2.4 patched one I had back then. Hope that helps, feel free to ask any questions if you want more info. Cheers, Marcus On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:43, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us. > Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian? > Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weird screen sizes? > Battery power management success/failures? > > Weird MS style corrupted bios issues? Anyone successfully running > linuxbios on a dell? www.linuxbios.org > Anyone successfully running linuxbios on any portable? > > > James -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dell & Debian ?
Hi All, On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 17:33, Stephen Birch wrote: > Hi James > > My current laptop (like Marcus, above) is an Inspiron 8500. No > problems ... sound, NVidia X, and networking all worked well out of the > box. > > The internal 802.11g is a truemobile 1300 which initially did not work > because they seem to be ignoring Linux. Yes, thanks James, I forgot to mention this. I decided to purchase the system without this WLAN card, and opted to get one outisde of Dell. After some research I bought a miniPCI Proxim 802.11/a/b/g Gold Card from a local reseller and it works fine under Linux using the madwifi driver. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$$$$$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: wireless network problems
Hi Tim, Hope all is well. Mate, you'll probably need to take a look at the madwifi project at sf.net to get the Gold card working (assuming it's operating with the Atheros chipset). I've got the 802.11/a/b/g gold card (miniPCI) and it works fine with this driver. Kernel wise, you'll need any 2.4.x kernel (check the madwifi docs), with it's associated headers so you can build the necessary madwifi kernel modules. Hope that helps. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:05:08PM -0700, Tim Folger wrote: > Hi, > > I've been having trouble getting an orinoco gold card to work on my > laptop with woody using the bf24 kernel. I'm a newbie and am thinking > about taking the plunge and trying to compile a custom kernel. Does > anyone have any recommendations for a kernel that would best support > wireless networking with woody? > > Thanks, > > Tim > > Andy Firman wrote: > > >>eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID: 1ecb13: Nickname: "Folger" > >>Mode: Managed Frequency: 2.412GHz Access Point: 00:02:2D:1E:CB:13 > >>Bit Rate=11Mb/s Tx-Power=15dBm Sensitivity:1/3 RTS thr:off > >>Fragment thr:2347B Encryption key: off Link Quality:27/92 Signal level: > >>-69dBm > >>Noise level:-96dBm > >>Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag: 0 > >>Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > >> > >>When I run cardctl ident I get: > >> > >>Socket 1: > >> Product info: "Lucent Technologies", "Wavelan/IEEE", > >>"Version 01.01", "" > >>function: 6 (network) > >> > >>I'm wondering if my problem could simply be something to do with > >>permissions. I noticed that in one of your earlier messages you could > >>run cardctl at a $ prompt, but I had to be root. Same thing for > >>iwconfig. I added myself to the dialout and dip groups, but still can't > >>connect to the internet. > >> > >> > > > >Looks like your card is seeing the access point. Good. > > > >What does ifconfig say? > > > >You need to be root to run iwconfig, cardctl, and ifconfig. > >I use sudo most of the time. > > > >If you are not getting an IP from the AP, then you can try giving > >yourself and IP manually such as: > > > >ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.5 > > > >then do this: > > > >route add default gateway 192.168.1.1 > > > >(assuming your RG is 192.168.1.1 and you on a standard > >private network 192.168.1.0/24) > > > >Then see if you can ping the AP. > > > >Like I said before, the Orinoco cards did not work well for me until > >I compiled a custom kernel. This may be a bit of a challenge for you, > >but once you learn how to do thisit will make things easier. > > > >http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html > > > >Debian is not easy for beginners. But if you stick with it, > >you will be happy in the future. > > > > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&:
Re: Dell 8600 WUXGA (1920x1200, 15.4", NVidia chipset)
Hi Tony, Hope all is well mate. Sounds like a nice machine :) Not sure if this helps much but I have an Inspiron 8500/WUXGA, with the NVidia chipset as well. I think the chipset you have could be newer than that in mine - however hopefully the binary driver from nvidia supports it just the same. I've got X running on my system at 1920x1200, attached is my XF86Config-4 file. Hope that helps getting X up at full resolution. It's quite nice to work with when you have that much screen real estate :) Cheers, Marcus On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 05:19:17PM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote: > Hi, all. > > [ sorry if you got this twice- I sent it to debian-user > first, by mistake :-( ] > > Just got a good deal on a Dell 8600 with a WUXGA display > (1920x1200). Got it running at 1600x1200 with Xandros 1.0 > (Debian-based, the former Corel Linux, and apparently what > LindowsOS is based on), but trying to get it to the full width. > > lspci says it has an unknown NVidia chipset... > > 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0324 > (rev a1) > > Does anyone know if this chip is handled in the newer > kernels (I ran 2.6.0 on my last laptop for a while, but > can't seem to get xandros to come up off a customized > kernel) or a newer version of XFree86. > > I've poked around tuxmobil etc, and there's supposed to be a > NVidia driver, but it's not clear that it would work with this > model, plus I'd rather avoid a proprietary driver (I've not > been able to back out installs of proprietary software very > well in the past). > > Any help (experience or speculation) appreciated, especially > combos and configs (XF86Config-4 and kernel) known to work > on this (a bit too proprietary in retrospect) beast. > > Oh, I'm running Xandros 1.0 but with a lot of stuff upgraded > to debian testing. Any tips for vanilla Debian are also > welcome, as I wouldn't mind switching back to that (I'm not > getting that much use out of the Xandros added-value stuff, > except for eye-candy, which is readily available elsewhere). > > By the way, Xandros' X startup seems to have a pretty good > try-and-fallback startup system for X; I'm trying to figure > out how it works. > > -- Tony > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft GmbH $ o_)$$$: 82-84 Mainzer Landstrasse ;$,_/\ &&:' 60327 Frankfurt Germany ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&: ### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION # XF86Config-4 (XFree86 server configuration file) generated by dexconf, the # Debian X Configuration tool, using values from the debconf database. # # Edit this file with caution, and see the XF86Config-4 manual page. # (Type "man XF86Config-4" at the shell prompt.) # # If you want your changes to this file preserved by dexconf, only make changes # before the "### BEGIN DEBCONF SECTION" line above, and/or after the # "### END DEBCONF SECTION" line below. # # To change things within the debconf section, run the command: # dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 # as root. Also see "How do I add custom sections to a dexconf-generated # XF86Config or XF86Config-4 file?" in /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz. Section "Files" FontPath"unix/:7100"# local font server # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/cyrillic" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi" FontPath"/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi" EndSection Section "Module" Load"bitmap" Load"dbe" Load"ddc" Load"extmod" Load"freetype" Load"glx" Load"int10" Load"record" Load"speedo" Load"type1" Load"vbe" EndSection Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "keyboard" Option "CoreKeyboard&
Re: Dell 8600 WUXGA (1920x1200, 15.4", NVidia chipset)
Hi Tony,
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:57:26AM -0800, Tony Godshall wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, Marcus.
>
> Any tips on how to install a proprietary driver "safely"
> (i.e. in a way that can be backed out if it doesn't work
> right)? I suppose I could just do a complete backup.
I installed the nvidia driver via the debian package (nvidia-glx and
nvidia-kernel-source) which should be reversible. Worked fine for me - I'm
running sid though - will these packages work with your debian-like
distribution?
Cheers,
Marcus
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Re: Dell & Debian ?
Hi James, I have a Dell Inspiron 8500 which i bought back in March last year. It's been running Debian sid since the day it was delivered and has been working well. X runs fine (I have an NVidia video card which works with their binary driver fine), as does sound, disk, usb1/2, pcmcia, etc. This particular machine has a 15.4" wide screen display on it, maximum resolution of 1920x1200. X works fine with this :) A few months ago I had suspend to disk working fine when suspending from the console, suspending from X had a restart issue - but I'm looking into that again soon with a 2.6 kernel rather than the 2.4 patched one I had back then. Hope that helps, feel free to ask any questions if you want more info. Cheers, Marcus On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 06:43, James wrote: > Hello, > > I'm looking to get a new portable, and my employer pushes Dell on us. > Any particular models that have a good track record with Debian? > Know video chipsets that work or do not work well? Weird screen sizes? > Battery power management success/failures? > > Weird MS style corrupted bios issues? Anyone successfully running > linuxbios on a dell? www.linuxbios.org > Anyone successfully running linuxbios on any portable? > > > James -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&:
Re: Dell & Debian ?
Hi All, On Sat, 2004-04-24 at 17:33, Stephen Birch wrote: > Hi James > > My current laptop (like Marcus, above) is an Inspiron 8500. No > problems ... sound, NVidia X, and networking all worked well out of the > box. > > The internal 802.11g is a truemobile 1300 which initially did not work > because they seem to be ignoring Linux. Yes, thanks James, I forgot to mention this. I decided to purchase the system without this WLAN card, and opted to get one outisde of Dell. After some research I bought a miniPCI Proxim 802.11/a/b/g Gold Card from a local reseller and it works fine under Linux using the madwifi driver. Cheers, Marcus -- . ,,$$$$$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&:
Re: SpeedStep-Problem
Hi There, Looks like you've got a Pentium 4-M system, not a centrino. This is the same as my machine (Dell Inspiron 8500). So, build the speedstep-ich module: Intel Speedstep on ICH-M chipsets (ioport interface) rather than the 'enhanced speedstep' module. This module should load cleanly into your kernel and you should be fine from there. I've been using the powernowd daemon (http://packages.debian.org/powernowd) with good success on my machine - note for this you'll need sysfs mounted and the userspace governor loaded as well. Hope all this helps. Cheers, Marcus On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 15:23, astryx wrote: > FATAL: Error inserting speedstep_centrino > (/lib/modules/2.6.7-rgw/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/speedstep-centrino.ko): > No such device > processor : 0 > vendor_id : GenuineIntel > cpu family : 6 > model : 13 > model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz > stepping : 6 -- . ,,$, Marcus Crafter ;$' ':Computer Systems Engineer $: : ManageSoft Corporation $ o_)$$$: Frankfurt am Main, Germany ;$,_/\ &&:' ' /( &&& \_&&&&' &&&&. &&&&&&&:
Re: SpeedStep-Problem
On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:51, Marcus Crafter wrote:
> Looks like you've got a Pentium 4-M system, not a centrino. This is the
Argh - Looks like I jumped the gun :)
My machine says:
model name : Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz
> model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
So it looks like they're different machines after all - and if you're
machine is new, then it probably is a centrino - sorry about any
confusion!
M.
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Re: Wireless card recommendations
Hi Robert,
I've been using the Proxim a/b/g gold card in my debian system and
haven't had any problems with it at all. The driver is available at the
madwifi project at sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/madwifi
Cheers,
Marcus
On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 15:42, Robert Goley wrote:
> I have to get 4 pcmcia wireless card for various Dell laptops that we
> have here in the office. All of these machines are dual boot Windows
> XP/Debian Sarge. I want to put "G" cards in these machines. I would
> also like to use native linux drivers if possible. Anyone have
> suggestions or recommendations or similar setup in use?
>
> Robert
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