Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > I would try to load the module and check the syslog for messages, i.e. > > modprobe -v b43 > > grep -i b43 /var/log/syslog > monad:/home/dto# modprobe -v b43 insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/input/input-polldev.ko insmod

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 14:26:08 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:59 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > By the way: Right after I sent my earlier message I realized that I had > > not run update-pciids for a while. With an up-to-date PCI ID list, the > > description of [14e4:

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Fabricio Cannini - Yahoo
On Thursday 11 September 2008 10:47:09 David O'Toole wrote: > Thanks for your help Ricardo. It sucks that I'll have to run an EXE but > perhaps the 4310 will work sometime soon. Hi David! It seems you're out of luck right now: http://www.linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#unsupported But don

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 16:59 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > By the way: Right after I sent my earlier message I realized that I had > not run update-pciids for a while. With an up-to-date PCI ID list, the > description of [14e4:4315] has changed from "BCM4310 USB Controller" to > "BCM4312 802.11b/g

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
The bugreport i filed is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=498612 On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 15:35 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
> > lspci shows this: > > > > 05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB > Controller > > (rev 01) > > That does not seem to be a wireless LAN controller; it looks like the > [14e4:4315] USB controller to me. > > What output do you get from > > lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|eth

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 16:02:10 +0200, Franklin PIAT wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > >> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > >> > > > > > >>

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Franklin PIAT
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: >> On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: >> > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: >> > > > > >> > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > > > detect any of th

Re: PC Speaker cannot be disabled

2008-09-11 Thread Nima Azarbayjany
Thanks Florian. ALSA seems to load an module for the PC speaker when pcspkr is blacklisted and not loaded. So it is necessary to blacklist pcspkr and mute the module loaded by ALSA. If pcspkr is not blacklisted ALSA does not load its own driver for the speaker so you can turn off the speaker jus

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
Thanks for your help Ricardo. It sucks that I'll have to run an EXE but perhaps the 4310 will work sometime soon. I will keep posting about my experiences with this laptop. On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:40 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: >

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Ichizo
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 09:11:31AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > > Hi David, > > > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > >

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 10:07 -0300, Ricardo Ichizo wrote: > Hi David, > > On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > > > [..] > > > > > > Acco

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Ichizo
Hi David, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 08:45:46AM -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > > > > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > > [..] > > > > According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module, > > so

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread David O'Toole
> > > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > > detect any of the laptop's network hardware > [..] > > According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2" module, > so it's a Marvell Yukon 2 Gigabit Ethernet adapter. > I'm sorry I forgot to mention this-

Re: PC Speaker cannot be disabled

2008-09-11 Thread Ricardo Ichizo
Hi Nima, On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:31:07AM +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: >Hi all, > >I use Debian on my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. By default, the laptop >produces a very loud, ugly, and annoying beep when, for example, you use >the tab completion in the console, etc. I used

Re: PC Speaker cannot be disabled

2008-09-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 00:31:07 +0430, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > Hi all, > > I use Debian on my Dell Inspiron E1505 laptop. By default, the laptop > produces a very loud, ugly, and annoying beep when, for example, you use the > tab completion in the console, etc. I used to disable the beep by a

Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963

2008-09-11 Thread Franklin PIAT
On Wed, 2008-09-10 at 21:12 -0400, David O'Toole wrote: > I purchased an Acer Extensa 4420-5963 laptop at retail > > The somewhat stale lenny netinst disc I had lying around did not > detect any of the laptop's network hardware [..] According to your boot log, the network adapter uses the "sky2"