Re: Extremely slow boot on new Vaio

2007-05-01 Thread Christophe T
2007/5/1, Preben Randhol : > I've got a laptop Vaio with exactly that CPU and I've never had such a > problem of slow boot. I always use i686 kernels. With this computer > I've only had problems with the hard disk (SATA). > The exact laptop model is vaio VGN-A617B Hi! Which kernel do you use no

Re: ipw2200 on Gateway 4522 running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Moore
Wayne Topa wrote: Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Eddy Petrisor wrote: Jim Moore wrote: <> Good luck with your wireless card! Thanks for your reply. Am new to Debian and wasn't aware of the root terminal. Once there, I could minip

Re: ipw2200 on Gateway 4522 running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > >Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: <> > > > Have you done a successful installation of the intel on an etch laptop? Only on the T40 which had the ipw2100 built in. I installed it on Etch/T

Re: ipw2200 on Gateway 4522 running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Topa wrote: > I installed the ipw2200-source package and went to the sourceforge > site for the firmware. I put the firmware in /lib/firmware. I recently installed Etch onto a Thinkpad T42 that has the Intel 2200BG wireless in it. The process was similar for me. However I had an Ubuntu li

ipw2200 on Gateway running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Moore
Got the connection active this morning. Getting the fw files in place was all it needed. The ipw2200 was in my install. So all was in place and upon rebooting it showed that I had an active wireless connection. Then came the process of getting wpa_supplicant up as I run WPA-PSK TKIP security

ipw2200 on Gateway running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Jim Moore
Got the connection active this morning. Getting the fw files in place was all it needed. The ipw2200 was in my install. So all was in place and upon rebooting it showed that I had an active wireless connection. Then came the process of getting wpa_supplicant up as I run WPA-PSK TKIP security

Re: ipw2200 on Gateway running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Jim Moore([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > So I'm a happy geriatric camper this afternoon. > Thanks for your replies. >From one geriatric to another, way to go Jim! Regards Wayne -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

kernel wlan - what's going on

2007-05-01 Thread Michael
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i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless

2007-05-01 Thread javier melendez
I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 down and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old debian (sarge kernel 2.4) and all very good but in my new linux etch i have this

i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless

2007-05-01 Thread javier melendez
I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 down and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old debian (sarge kernel 2.4) and all very good but in my new linux etch i have this

Re: i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless

2007-05-01 Thread Preben Randhol
On Tue, 1 May 2007 21:54:58 + javier melendez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when > i restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig > ra0 down and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my >

Re: i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless

2007-05-01 Thread Paolo
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:59:12PM +, javier melendez wrote: > > I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i > restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 down > and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old debian >

Re: i have a big problem with my rt2500 pci wireless

2007-05-01 Thread Paolo
On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:01:25PM +, javier melendez wrote: > > no, I have typed top and my load over memory or cpu don't have problem. boot without inserting module; check all is fine, then keeping an eye on syslog (or just run dmesg in terminal) modprobe the rt2500; check dmesg again; if

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2007-05-01 Thread javier melendez
I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 down and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old debian (sarge kernel 2.4) and all very good but in my new linux etch i have this

help with my wireless card, please

2007-05-01 Thread javier melendez
> I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i > restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 down > and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old debian > (sarge kernel 2.4) and all very good but in my new linux etch i ha

Re: help with my wireless card, please

2007-05-01 Thread Selim T. Erdogan
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 02:56:10AM +, javier melendez wrote: > > > I have a laptop averatec 2700. I installed the rt2500 module and when i > > restart my laptop, the laptop work very slowly. So i type ifconfig ra0 > > down and my pc back to work well. I installed this driver with my old >

Re: ipw2200 on Gateway running etch

2007-05-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Jim Moore wrote: > Got the connection active this morning. Getting the fw files in place > was all it needed. The ipw2200 was in my install. So all was in place > and upon rebooting it showed that I had an active wireless connection. Very good to hear. > Then came the process of getting wpa

Re: Sony or Toshiba? (corrected)

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 17:18 -0300, Carlos Felipe S. Pinheiro wrote: > Hi. I was looking for a notebook I found two good deals: Toshiba Satellite > A135-S4527 and Sony VAIO N220E/B, both for the same price (after rebate) > $599.99. > I wonder which one would have better Linux compatibility (and mayb