Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-12 Thread James Brown
chris jackson wrote: I installed etch about a week and a half ago, and it picked up the ipw2200 as part of the regular installation routine. All I had to do was download the firmware (as you'll find it on the sourceforge page for the ipw2200 driver), put it into the hotplug directory (/usr/li

Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-12 Thread James Brown
James Brown wrote: chris jackson wrote: [...] Hi Chris, Yes, that's helpful thank you. I guess I need to compile the latest kernel for Etch and check the options for ipw2200 during make menuconfig. Also, do you know if there any options I should be checking to get WPA and WEP support as

Re: ipw2200 [Wifi Driver] compile problems

2006-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
James Brown wrote: [...] Does anyone know a good site which runs through the make menuconfig options for a newbie? I still need to know which options are needed for the ipw2200 and WPA/WEP. You need "Networking > Generic IEEE 802.11 Networking Stack" and its sub-options (WEP, CCMP, TKIP) and

HP Pavillion dv800

2006-03-12 Thread riad nassiffe
I need some help to configure my laptop display on xorg.conf...this is my first laptop and a don´t know how to configure it, the driver of the video board is already installed, the display is a 17.0" WXGA+ Ultra BrightView Widescreen (1440x900).

X using up to 100% of cpu while moving windows

2006-03-12 Thread Martin Hauser
Hello, since a long time i run on debian/unstable on my thinkpad r40, using Xorg. Recently (the last few days), i recognized unordinary lag in several applications (including skype) which lead me to closer investigation. I found out that the X-server (or the specific wm) is taking a lot of cpu for

Re: X using up to 100% of cpu while moving windows

2006-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Martin Hauser wrote: Hello, since a long time i run on debian/unstable on my thinkpad r40, using Xorg. Recently (the last few days), i recognized unordinary lag in several applications (including skype) which lead me to closer investigation. I found out that the X-server (or the specific wm) is

Re: HP Pavillion dv800

2006-03-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
riad nassiffe wrote: I need some help to configure my laptop display on xorg.conf...this is my first laptop and a don´t know how to configure it, the driver of the video board is already installed, the display is a 17.0" WXGA+ Ultra BrightView Widescreen (1440x900). Try the command "lspci" to l

Re: choosing new notebook - Fujitsu P7120?

2006-03-12 Thread Jos
On 3/11/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am thinking about updating to a new small notebook. Anyone have > any particular recommendations? > > The Fujitsu Lifebook P series look like about the right size, but the > P7010 for which i have found Debian install instructions has now been