Re: Touchscreen Ultrabooks running Debian?

2013-09-19 Thread Deryk Barker
On 13-09-19 08:00 PM, Carl Fink wrote: I'm ready to replace my five-year-old netbook with something a bit peppier. I'd like to run Debian on it if possible. I use a smartphone a lot, and I find myself instinctively tapping the screen with my fingers. If for no other reason, I'd like an ultrabook

Re: dhclient problem with BMC4312

2012-05-09 Thread Deryk Barker
think that's the name, which does the trick for that chipset). After which rmmod b43 followed by modprobe b43 will reload the kernel module which will load the firmware and everything should be OK. Worked a treat for me a couple of weeks ago on my HP netbook, which is running the Mint

Re: broadcom-sta-source driver problem

2010-01-19 Thread Deryk Barker
John Kapnogiannis wrote: . Oh and I forgot. No I didn't upgrade from an earlier kernel. It's a fresh install with squeeze on my new laptop :) and I am using the official 2.6.30 kernel version from testing. My fault, should have read more carefully. If it's a fresh install you certainly

Re: broadcom-sta-source driver problem

2010-01-19 Thread Deryk Barker
John Kapnogiannis wrote: On Tuesday 19 January 2010 22:53:47 Thierry Chatelet wrote: Well I checked with both and there isn't any interface for wireless. Only lo and eth0 for the ethernet. J I am not really good with broadcom wireless, but as far as I remember, you have to have a fi

Re: hibernation with new kernels

2009-02-19 Thread Deryk Barker
Nima Azarbayjany wrote: I surely know what a tea kettle is, I just do not know what Frank meant by saying turn off the tea kettle is his email. It did not make sense to me. I am really not fluent in idiomatic English. I wouldn't worry about it. Having spent the first 38 years of my life in En

atitvout problem

2003-10-21 Thread Deryk Barker
on in testing and b) I'd rather not mess around installing xfree drivers from tgz files if I can avoid it. So, does anyone know of a Debian solution to this problem (i.e. a solution involving .debs)? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camos

atitvout problem

2003-10-21 Thread Deryk Barker
on in testing and b) I'd rather not mess around installing xfree drivers from tgz files if I can avoid it. So, does anyone know of a Debian solution to this problem (i.e. a solution involving .debs)? -- |Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood| |Camos