Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-07 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2006-06-06 at 09:58 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: Good point. Wireless networking is certainly more useful than just for laptops. However, on my single PC wired LAN, I can't test any of the wireless tools. But I'll keep you posted if I ever get around to setting up wireless access.

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: On 6/5/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's my intention, although I want to test it a little more thoroughly first. Possibly a hint for LFS might be a good start, if anyone here wants to try it out? I wish I had a

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/6/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 14:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: I wish I had a laptop. I'd love to give it a spin. I think Jeremy Utley uses NetworkManager (saw him mention it in the IRC logs). Maybe he can test drive it. Jeremy, do you read this

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-05 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 08:01 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: If you put together a patch, they may accept it upstream. They did for paldo. http://www.paldo.org/paldo/sources/NetworkManager/NetworkManager-0.6.2-paldo-2.patch.bz2 http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/NetworkManager/initscript/paldo/ That's

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-05 Thread Justin The Cynical
Andrew Benton wrote: Justin The Cynical wrote: So far, I've been able to figure out most everything else on getting this Asus Z71V running like a top, but I'm having a bit of a time getting the speedstep stuff working. I've googled, but I must be blind as I'm really only finding info on

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/5/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's my intention, although I want to test it a little more thoroughly first. Possibly a hint for LFS might be a good start, if anyone here wants to try it out? I wish I had a laptop. I'd love to give it a spin. I think Jeremy Utley uses

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-04 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 16:55 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: If you don't mind a gui, then NetworkManager can do what you want. It requires dbus, hal, dhcdbd and a slew of gnome libraries, though. As far as non-gui, I couldn't tell you. Someone else might know, though. NM's not exactly easy to

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 6/4/06, Simon Geard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: NM's not exactly easy to get working, unfortunately - the dependencies aren't too big a deal since I use most of them anyway, but LFS isn't exactly a supported platform. I've got it working, but not without quite a bit of patching to add an

Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-03 Thread Justin The Cynical
So far, I've been able to figure out most everything else on getting this Asus Z71V running like a top, but I'm having a bit of a time getting the speedstep stuff working. I've googled, but I must be blind as I'm really only finding info on making it work with pre-packaged distros. Anyone

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-03 Thread Andrew Benton
Justin The Cynical wrote: So far, I've been able to figure out most everything else on getting this Asus Z71V running like a top, but I'm having a bit of a time getting the speedstep stuff working. I've googled, but I must be blind as I'm really only finding info on making it work with

Re: Laptop speedstep and wifi questions

2006-06-03 Thread Justin The Cynical
Dan Nicholson wrote: If you don't mind a gui, then NetworkManager can do what you want. It requires dbus, hal, dhcdbd and a slew of gnome libraries, though. As far as non-gui, I couldn't tell you. Someone else might know, though. http://www.gnome.org/projects/NetworkManager/