Acer TravelMate 3040

2009-03-12 Thread James Brown
Hello, I intend to transfer my working notebook Acer TravelMate 3040 from Windows to Debian 5.0. Can anyone told me is it possible? Do you know this notebook workes with Deb ot not? And if it work does it work stable? Very thanks, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64

2009-03-12 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
Hello, Please use short and descriptive message subject. I my user agent, your message title was truncated to "URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Bro". Don't expect me (and others) to read the message body to know what your mail is about. Some other words that aren't useful in message subject: - pr

Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64

2009-03-12 Thread Bret Busby
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: Hello, Please use short and descriptive message subject. I my user agent, your message title was truncated to "URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Bro". Don't expect me (and others) to read the message body to know what your mail is about. Some other wo

Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64

2009-03-12 Thread Paolo
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:09:46AM +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote: > - statement like "URGENT" and "I really need a solution right away!" > get you problem solved quicker (unless you paid for gold support ;) ^ won't -- p -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Acer TravelMate 3040

2009-03-12 Thread Robert Smith
I have not tried Debian, but just for kicks, I tried the live Ubuntu CD (Intrepid Ibex) on my new Acer Aspire 5735Z, and it worked just fine, detecting all of my hardware normally. I am planning to install it to dual boot with the virus from Redmond.Rob Smith --- On Thu, 3/12/09, James Brown w

Re: Problems with NDISWrapper

2009-03-12 Thread Loz
Hi, just to say I haven't forgotten this, just been too busy to test it. I'm away at the weekend, so I'll try it on Tuesday, and report back. Loz On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:27 PM, Muammar El Khatib wrote: > Hi Loz, > > On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 3:54 AM, Loz wrote: >> That looks great. I'll try t

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paolo [2009-03-12 07:53:33 +0100]: > or more quickly: > > $ sed -i /^Reading/d /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > > (w/out '$' in col 1, of course) > I'm in Thailand. I don't have the inclination to fly over and teach sed right now. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread Paolo
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 06:25:27PM +0700, Dave Patterson wrote: > > I'm in Thailand. I don't have the inclination to fly over and teach sed > right now. many, though not living in Thailand, would agree anyway ;) But that'd just be an easy way to do the job. -- paolo GPG/PGP id:0x3A47DE4

Re: Acer TravelMate 3040

2009-03-12 Thread Hannu Virtanen
If not sure,if all the hardware works with debian maybe best to do first a dual-boot installation. To leave a windows installation there, too.  -- When debian works it is definitely more stable than any windows.

Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread Dave Patterson
* Paolo [2009-03-12 12:43:50 +0100]: > But that'd just be an easy way to do the job. Cheers. -- Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/amd64

2009-03-12 Thread John Wesley Cooper
Sorry about that, I'll remember your advice in the future. ~John Wesley Cooper -Original Message- From: Frank Lin PIAT [mailto:fp...@klabs.be] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 1:10 AM To: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org; John Wesley Cooper Subject: Re: Broadcom 4321AG not detected on lenny/

RE: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected

2009-03-12 Thread John Wesley Cooper
I haven't quite gotten it fixed, but I have managed to successfully set up a ndiswrapper kernel! Now all would appear to need is a driver... so I looked through the archives and found one that looked right, but the instructions for setting it up were for another version of Linux, so I'm going to r