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On Thursday 24 September 2009 16:19:15 I wrote: |
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> Two problems remain (until I solve those and expose the next layer!): |
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> 1. On starting X I find that the keyboard and mouse are not connected. I |
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> can ssh in and reboot the machine, so it's still alive - just not |
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> responsive to me at the keyboard. I've tried an xorg.conf from X |
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> -configure, and I've tried without. More investigation to do here. |
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This one was easy, though I didn't find the answer straight away - it seems |
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I'd omitted to add hald and dbus to the default run-level. |
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> 2. The wireless network. This uses an Atheros chip, device 168c:002b, not |
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> quite the same as the chips described on gentoo-wiki. Has anyone here got |
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> this system working? Do I need madwifi, for instance? The old laptop this |
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> netbook will replace has a madwifi installation that I could plagiarise. |
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No problem here either. |
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If anyone wants to know what I did to get the wlan working they've only to |
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ask. |
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Rgds |
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Peter |
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