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7v5w7go9ub0o wrote: |
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> Hope that you get a more useful response.... FWIW, I Had precisely these |
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> symptoms on my Sony 2200 laptop - and can't tell you why - but it is |
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> rock sold now. I think there were two things going on: |
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> 1. This might be a "kill" switch? Some of my problems were certainly due |
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> to the kill switch. I finally noticed that the little wireless LEDs |
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> were off. I had turned them off while using the windows OS - given that |
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> it is susceptable to the wonderful new driver attacks - and had failed |
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> to turn it on when booting up hardened Linux (which I believe is NOT |
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> susectable to the driver buffer overflows). |
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> 2. I also suggest a step by step walk-through of the following page |
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> (check your kernel config). |
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> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_ipw2200 |
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> P.S. Contrary to their suggestion, I emerged the latest driver/firmware |
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> from portage. |
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Thanks for the reply. |
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I don't have a physical switch, but perhaps there is a software switch. |
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This laptop has never run windows, so I can't say that is a factor. |
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I had not seen that wiki, i'll give it a look. I also use the drivers |
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from portage, the in-kernel ones are just too old and always have been. |
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