Hi yall, I'm new here, I just installed 8.1 on a Sony VAIO PCG-F450 (with 256M) which I previously used (successfully) with RedHat 6.1 and SuSE 7.1 (however SuSE somehow kept freezing too much). I still have some problems of configuration with 8.1 in particular with the sound card and ALSA drivers but I guess I should post the thing that bugs me the most: I want to be able to both (1) use my ADSL modem (Alcatel SpeedTouch USB) and (2) be able to shutdown without hanging (and I'm not using Aurora).
(1) I'm aware that the hanging at shutdown while 'USB: disconnet device x' is a known problem and I did the fix suggested on the errata pages (namely replace in /etc/modules.conf the line 'alias usb-interface usb-uhci' with 'alias usb-interface uhci' -- this is indeed what happens). Besides the expected effect (not hanging at shutdown anymore) it also has the side effect that I'm unable to connect to my ISP with the USB modem. (I live in Paris and I checked the French newbie list but nobody seems to have this problem there, for some reason). (2) I also noticed that connecting to the ISP (that is when it works, ie with the module usb-uhci loaded) is somewhat of a gamble under Linux (it works 30% of the time say) when the script provided by the ISP (under Win98) works fine all the time. Is there some magical change to make to some connection script for it to work better ? Can this be related to problem (1) ? Thanks in advance! Thierry ============================ Mandrake 8.1 -- did all the upgrades from Mandrake's web site except tetex wouldn't upgrade. VAIO PCG-F450, PIII 500Mhz (...) 2 USB ports (a) Alcatel SpeedTouch USB (b) Epson Stylus Scan 2500
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