On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 06:33:21PM +0200, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > At the moment I am running the stock kernel. It is 2.6.18-4-amd64. A > selfbuilt > kernel crashed sometimes at bootup. I changed nothing but kernel-timer from > 250Hz to 1000Hz. This might be the problem (there was another post relating > to this behaviour by someone else.) The stock kernel is running fine.
Well I have a realtek card that I am playing around with. I have managed to connect and such but last I played with it the speed dropped to something awful not long after connecting. There have been driver updates since though so I should try again. > Most of the users use ndiswrapper, but I am not a friend of it. Formerly I > had > broadcom, which ran fine with native drivers. The support by the vendors of > wireless cards is sucking ! Meanwhile I checked a little bit more and > discovered the problem either at madwifi-tools or the drivers itself. It > might be an initialisation problem. It is fancy: Doing /etc/init.d/networking > twice ore three times does the trick. The madwifi.driver does not see the AP > each time, so it does not get the dhcpleases. Yeah I think I will stay away from ndiswrapper. > I never had problems with it so far. Maybe it is on Intel-cpus , I always use > AMD. CPU doesn't matter. Video chip and X driver does. I buy whichever CPU is currently best (which has been Athlon and Athlon 64 for a long time, but is now the Core 2 Duo). > BTW: I managed to get a new Brother printer (printer+scanner) running in > debian-amd64. It is DCP-115c aka MFC-210C (including some others , too). To > do this, I had to rebuilt a redhat-package for 64-bit and add an entry > in /etc/udev/libsane. It was a little tricky. I could write a little how-to > for debian-amd64. There was none in the web, only for I386. The printerpart I > could not get running on debian-amd64, but I could not find out, why. Maybe > it is a simple problem of rights or the driver is incompatible (it is a > binary) with 64-bit. > > So, please leave me a note, if this howto is interesting and someone likes to > make it popular for the community. Not sure. I don't liek all in pnes personally, and I despise brother products (past experience with their laser printers was too painful, not to mention their idiotic fax machines). I am tempted to buy a xerox phaser 6120N since it is a nice colour laser, with good print quality, native postscript level 3, and ethernet connection for under $400. -- Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]