Re: My Laptop
On Wed, Dec 12, 2007 at 11:12:58PM -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote: On Wed, 2007-12-12 at 17:00 -0500, Stuart D. Gathman wrote: On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Larry Finger wrote: Stuart D. Gathman wrote: , but I got kernel exceptions, DMA exception, and eventually the system froze. I would say it is not ready for prime time. (I will be looking for where to helpfully report the exceptions for those trying to debug the thing. I suspect donations of relevant hardware are most useful.) No problems with the zd1211 driver and USB key. I'm sorry that you had troubles with the BCM94311MCG in your laptop, but I think most of your problems are fixed in driver b43 in any of the 2.6.24-rcX kernels. In any case, the place to report such problems is [EMAIL PROTECTED] FC8 has 2.6.23. I suppose FC9 might do the trick. Or maybe they'll backport some fixes. Fedora generally releases kernel updates fairly quickly to track upstream (though they have patches to port forward before they are ready). There's no 2.6.24 in updates-testing yet, however. kernel-2.6.23.9-85 is there. Are you looking for wireless patches? At this moment there are no wireless bits in wireless-2.6 that are not in the latest Fedora kernels in Koji. The last one I built is here: http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=27585 Hth! John -- John W. Linville [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: My Laptop
Herbert Taylor wrote: I wanted to see if I could get some advise on what to do concerning wireless on my laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron B130 with a Dell wireless card, 1370 WLAN, mini-PC card. It works fine on windows as does a Linksys WUSB54G. I have Ubuntu loaded right now in a dual boot, that one of my geek friends worked on and am not sure if it will ever work right again. I have been unable to get get any drivers that will load or work with Ubuntu and network manager at all. I was using Fedora 6, but had problems with that. I am fairly new to Linux as you can guess. Daniel Fetchinson (I believe) wrote that he installed Fedora 8 and network manager was working just fine and he connected to his wireless network. I was thinking seriously of going back to Fedora but unable to find a way to get a copy were we are staying for the winter in Florida. Not sure if my Dell (Broadcom card I believe) will work the same way with Fedora 8. Wish I knew more about this stuff. Linux out performs Windows in all ways, but right now I am stuck using windows while I am down down here for 5 months. Any suggestions on what I might be able to do would be greatly appreciated. If I could get this thing to work I could drop windows completely. The Dell 1370 is a BCM4318 and will work with the driver named bcm43xx in kernels 2.6.21 and later. Kernel 2.6.24-rc5 also includes a better driver named b43. One problem you will have with Ubuntu is that they configure their kernels without enabling the debug messages for bcm43xx, which greatly complicates getting started. To use bcm43xx or b43, you will have to install firmware as the Broadcom copyright prevents distribution of this firmware. Consult http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#devicefirmware for instructions on downloading _AND_ installing the correct firmware (version 3 for bcm43xx, version 4 for b43). In any future postings regarding this issue, please include the output of the 'uname -r' command, and the output of 'dmesg | grep bcm43xx' or 'dmesg | grep b43'. The flavor you use will be determined by the driver you are trying to use. Larry ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
