Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:11:54AM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: > > Not really what you were saying, but I suppose it might work. But > first I have to figure out if it really is inadequate swap that's > giving me grief. I would assume that upon doing a fresh boot-up you would be using much less memo

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Bob Proulx
Jimmy Wu wrote: > From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? > > Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my > RAM? I

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Chris Riley
Is High memory support turned on in the kernel? This could explain why hibernation is working whilst you have 2gig's in the system. Processor type and features -> High Memory Support On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:11 PM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 12:07 AM, Jimmy Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] > > > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk p

Re: hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Jimmy Wu wrote: > >>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be > > able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to > > be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside i

hibernate and swap partition size (newbie question)

2008-02-21 Thread Jimmy Wu
>From what I've read online, I get the general idea that in order to be able to hibernate/suspend to disk properly, the swap partition has to be big enough to hold all of the RAM inside it, right? Is it possible to hibernate if my swap partition is smaller than my RAM? I have 2 GB of RAM, and whe

Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?

2008-02-21 Thread Preston Boyington
whoops, must remember to hit "reply to all"... Original Message Manu Hack wrote: I fail to get that work. Which kernel are you using? I'm using 2.6.24 (amd64) but I couldn't compile the module. currently I am using the 2.6.22-3 kernel in the i386 Testing branch. -- Arra

Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?

2008-02-21 Thread Manu Hack
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Preston Boyington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paolo wrote: > > > > > > 1. lspci -vvv > > 2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website > > 3. check www.realtek.com.tw > > 4. check the *mobile*linux* sites for other's experiences > > > > Realtek's wifi chips are not

Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?

2008-02-21 Thread Preston Boyington
Paolo wrote: 1. lspci -vvv 2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website 3. check www.realtek.com.tw 4. check the *mobile*linux* sites for other's experiences Realtek's wifi chips are not listed in pci_ids in kernel, and they're used to provide blob good only for some ref. kernel version they used to

Re: Toshiba A205-S5809 - Realtek wifi?

2008-02-21 Thread Paolo
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:07:12PM -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > (A205-S5809). installing Debian was quick and far easier than i hadt ... > can anyone help with this? so far dmesg doesn't show any wlan devices 1. lspci -vvv 2. lookup vendor's tech specs/website 3. check www.realtek.com.tw

Re: cannot connect to the internet after resume

2008-02-21 Thread Forrest Y. Yu
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 9:43 AM, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:07:20 +0800 > "Forrest Y. Yu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [please don't top post, and don't send me a separate copy of your mails, > as per the code of conduct] > > > The network problem happened to me