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G'day all, |
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Having been a gentoo user for a number of years now I have recently |
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installed onto a Dell Inspiron 6400 and am now experiencing the |
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adrenalin rush of gettin wireless and other laptoppy things (fglrx for |
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the X1400 etc.) up and running. So... my first post to gentoo-laptop. |
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I have now reached the point of the basics working, but coping with some |
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minor annoyances - those sort of things that usually take hours of |
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googling etc. resulting in a 30 second fix. So having googled for hours |
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I'm wondering if people can give me the simple advice on the following: |
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1) The ksynaptics "syndock" applet tells me that "You need at least |
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driver version 0.14.4" but I have that: |
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emerge -pv synaptics... |
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[ebuild R ] x11-drivers/synaptics-0.14.5-r1 USE="-dlloader" 0 kB |
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Before I bugs.g.o this have I missed something obvious? |
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2) I'm having intermittent problems with the Intel Pro 3945ABG wireless. |
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Under windows the connection to my access point is solid as a rock. |
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Under gentoo the network occassionally hangs - Restarting the card |
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sometimes fixes it, restarting the access point sometimes fixes it. I'm |
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currently exploring to make sure that it is the wireless and not |
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something else (NFS or something else higher up) that is hanging. An |
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interesting little quirk is that under windows the little "wifi" LED |
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light is on solid, under linux it's on sometimes solid, sometimes |
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quivering - might be indicative or something. Interested in others |
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experience here though. |
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My set up for the wireless works but seems a little messy - I'm |
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wondering if people can reccomend improvements: |
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portage has ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode which provides the kernel |
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level stuff (and provides eth1 I guess). ipw3945d is run at init. |
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net.eth1 is not in init but instead runs from ifplugd so that I don't |
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get hangs etc. on boot when I'm not at home. |
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/etc/conf.d/net sets eth1 to be dhcp and loads wpa_supplicant as a module |
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wpa_supplicant has ssid and keys and stuff in config and works - by the |
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time I login on console the network is up. |
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kwifimanager then runs when I get into KDE |
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Thoughts? |
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Next things to do are to work on cpu stepping, bluetooth, |
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hibernation/standby stuff and things like that. Ain't it fun? |
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Regards, |
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Will. |
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