Re: ACPI on VIA iDot 3500

2009-04-16 Thread Ruan Kendall
it that should enable acpi. On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 08:38:53AM +0100, Ruan Kendall wrote: So I've recently installed 4.4 on a new via idot pc3500-g motherboard, which is all great, but I note that ACPI isn't working. Is there anything helpful I can contribute to getting it working on this system

ACPI on VIA iDot 3500

2009-04-14 Thread Ruan Kendall
So I've recently installed 4.4 on a new via idot pc3500-g motherboard, which is all great, but I note that ACPI isn't working. Is there anything helpful I can contribute to getting it working on this system? Or do dmesg notes like 'pcibios0: bad IRQ table checksum' suggest that the system is

Static IP address problems

2009-02-27 Thread Ruan Kendall
I've come across a strange problem whereby configuring an interface with DHCP lets my system run absolutely fine, but assigning a static IP to the nic results in a system that can only speak to the local subnet. I can ssh into it, but cannot connect to any machines on the internet. The computer

Re: Static IP address problems

2009-02-27 Thread Ruan Kendall
learnt that 2 hours banging my head against a problem isn't long enough to rule out stupidity ;-) Thanks for the assistance, folks. - Ruan On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Ruan Kendall shearwa...@gmail.com wrote: I've come across a strange problem whereby configuring an interface with DHCP

Re: Sensors support on proliant DL380 G2

2008-03-12 Thread Ruan Kendall
. However, I have no idea where this configuration bit might be set. Would I be right in thinking it should be set by the BIOS? This would seem to imply that I'm kinda stuffed here. On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 2:41 AM, Constantine A. Murenin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 08/03/2008, Ruan Kendall [EMAIL

Sensors support on proliant DL380 G2

2008-03-08 Thread Ruan Kendall
So, I've tried both 4.2 and 4.3 snapshot on this slightly aged proliant I've obtained, and most things have worked very well but for the total absense of any sensor information. Is this because a) I've not done something terribly important that would enable it for me, b) because all the sensor