F7 on a Toshiba A200 , and problems
by Manuel Morán Vaquero
Hi:
I've written a report about F7 installation on a Toshiba Satellite A200:
http://www.immv.es/index.php?page=linux-on-a-toshiba-a200-12x
Still having two big problems:
- SUSPEND doesn't work as of current kernel (hibernate DOES work).
Tested every quirk in HAL page. Nothing: my laptop suspends but never
resumes (hangs, and find / doesn't work). Should I fill a bugzilla?
- HARD DISK HEADS suffer from emergency parking because of this
unresolved bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243021
The bug is now open for more than 20 days and being a critical thing, it
hasn't been solved yet. I have to boot into Windows to poweroff my
laptop so as not to damage hard disk heads.
Any hints or help? I hope that my report is of help to new users.
Regards,
Manuel Moran
16 years, 10 months
out of fedora list
by Francesco PIRAS
I don't want to be part of this mailing list anymore... what can I do to
delete my contact?
Thanks
16 years, 10 months
ipw2200 problem...
by Ben Bergen
Hi,
I just installed Fedora 7 and I can't get my ipw2200 wireless nic card
to work. It looks like the firmware, module, etc... is getting
loaded. One thing that is troubling is that the little wlan light
does not come on when I add the ipw2200 module. The laptop is an IBM
Thinkpad x40. I don't think that there is anything wrong with the
hardware because this laptop was working fine with Ubuntu Feisty.
Firmware is ipw2200-firmware-3.0-9. Here is output from dmesg, and
iwconfig:
dmesg:
====
ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.13
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno(a)linux.intel.com>
ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
ipw2200: Detected geography ZZM (11 802.11bg channels, 0 802.11a channels)
iwconfig:
=====
lo no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 unassociated ESSID:"berrynet" Nickname:"bbk.lanl.gov"
Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:0 kb/s Tx-Power=20 dBm Sensitivity=8/0
Retry limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
--
Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Karl Bergen, M.Sc.
CCS-2 Computational Physics and Methods
Los Alamos National Laboratory
(505) 606-1886 (o)
(505) 412-9718 (c)
16 years, 10 months
Acer laptop problem
by Amitakhya Phukan
Hi all !
I don't know if this problem is specific to my laptop only or not. Its
an Acer Aspire 3003 laptop.
I installed F7 from the Live CD. After two sessions of logging in to the
system (two sessions means using the system two times, by a proper
shutdown procedure), I get error messages about bcm43xx_mac... module
not found or loaded. I can understand that it is because I have not
installed the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm for my Broadcom wireless card... but
why does it start after two sessions, why not in the first time itself ?
Secondly, from this third session onwards, I have all kinds of I/O
errors...sometimes, GRUB doesn't appear, sometimes a "ls" command gives
an I/O error...sometimes the name of the hard drive is followed by a
series of ! signs .. upto around 15 of them !!. ..
Well, I am actually a bit surprised at this... never happened in any
previous Fedora versions I have used... and because of the GRUB problem,
I had to install F7 three times till now. I am afraid this version of
Fedora seems to be somewhat unstable to me as far as its working with my
laptop goes.
I can provide you with any details you would like to know... But I need
a solution desperately..In fact, FC6 never gave me any problems but F7
seems to be behaving like Windows on my laptop !!! ... crashes without
any reason.
Yesterday, the same problem happened.. in desperation I tried installing
FC6...the partition screen showed the hard drive name followed by lots
of ! marks... the whole of 60 GB was under F7, but still it showed an
extra 60GB of hard disk !!!!....then i rebooted instead of proceeding
with the install and to my surprise, F7 now booted properly...
Can anyone please give me some idea where the problem lies ??
Thanks and regards,
Amitakhya Phukan.
16 years, 10 months
(no subject)
by TheSphinX
hi i've a via chrome 9 hc igp graphics card. i want to use linux
(Fedora 7, Centos 5, OpenSuse 10.2, Ubuntu ) on my laptop. but when i
was installed these operating systems i got problem about graphics on
my laptop. İ tried something but i couldnt find a solution. Please help
me about this problem. Thanks for all, at the Above my problems with
os.
Fedora 7 and Centos 5 : Computer is started, but, at the end of starting, i
have black Screen.
OpenSuse 10.2: Driver is known as VESA but didnt work well. screen is
cutting and starting ubuntu so like this.
Thanks again
Mehmet <fedora-laptop-list(a)redhat.com>
16 years, 10 months
FC7+Thinkpad t60+iwl3945 - Kill Switch bug
by Sean Kelley
My t60 is powering up with the kill-switch activated. Searching the
ubuntu forums I was able to track down the keycodes to turn off the
kill-switch. However, it would be nice if I could just get the switch
on the front llip of the case to work. Also the wifi light is not lit
when it is on. FC7 seems like a step backward in terms of support for
a Thinkpad t60.
Anyone else been dealing with the kill switch issue and their thinkpad t60?
Sean
16 years, 10 months
FC 6 and PCMCIA support
by Thomas Dodd
So, maybe someone here can help.
I tried to install FC6 on a laptop and it couldn't find the network card
because there was no PCMCIA socket found.
I think it's a Yenta sockt, but not sure.
I installed FC on my desktop, and it doesn't see my PCMCIA socket.
This used an intel driver in older OS releases. It's and Action tec, ISA
card, that is configured with Plug-N-Play.
This is from my old isapnp.conf file:
# Card 1: (serial identifier 77 01 23 45 67 18 02 a9 04)
# Vendor Id AEI0218, Serial Number 19088743, checksum 0x77.
# Version 1.0, Vendor version 0.0
# ANSI string -->ACTIONTEC PNP PCMCIA ADAPTER <--
#
# Logical device id AEI0218
#
# Edit the entries below to uncomment out the configuration required.
# Note that only the first value of any range is given, this may be
changed if required
# Don't forget to uncomment the activate (ACT Y) when happy
(CONFIGURE AEI0218/19088743 (LD 0
# Logical device decodes 16 bit IO address lines
# Minimum IO base address 0x03e0
# Maximum IO base address 0x03fe
# IO base alignment 2 bytes
# Number of IO addresses required: 2
# 0x03e0..0x03e1
# 0x03e2..0x03e3
# 0x03e4..0x03e5
# 0x03e6..0x03e7
# 0x03e8..0x03e9
# 0x03ea..0x03eb
# 0x03ec..0x03ed
# 0x03ee..0x03ef
# 0x03f0..0x03f1
# 0x03f2..0x03f3
# 0x03f4..0x03f5
# 0x03f6..0x03f7
# 0x03f8..0x03f9
# 0x03fa..0x03fb
# 0x03fc..0x03fd
# 0x03fe..0x03ff
(IO 0 (SIZE 2) (BASE 0x03e0))
(NAME "AEI0218/19088743[0]{ACTIONTEC PNP PCMCIA ADAPTER }")
(ACT Y)
I've tried building a different kernel on that machine, turning on the
other PCMCIA drives, but that kernel won't boot correctly. Any one know
where I can:
1) get the missing modules or a whole kerenl built with the correct support?
2) how to get it to work on the laptop which seams to need a different
driver too.
-Thomas
16 years, 10 months
Comments on power history application
by Joe Desbonnet
Some random notes on this tool.
1. It no longer seems to be possible to reset the time axis
2. There should be an option to switch between time-since-reboot (what
we have now) and
absolute time
3. The time tic/grid algorithm is poor. The tics and grid lines on the
time axis should be nice multiples. I'm looking at a graph right now
and the time axis reads:
67h21 67h45 68h09 68h33 68h57 : ie 24 minutes between each grid
line -- very hard to read. 67h30 68h00 68h30 69h00 would have been a
much better choice in this case.
4. The event markers are nice... the obvious next step would be to add
a tool-tip style
explanation when the mouse is hovered over it.
5. There is no event log (I think there was with FC6?)
6. The Voltage axis in the Voltage history starts at 0V. As battery
voltage varies by only a few volts and never goes near 0V the
interesting information is hard to see in this graph ... ie it's
almost a straight line.
7: (I'm probably asking too much here): It would be very nice to get
more "instrumentation" data on the same graph. Eg:
Time vs CPU load, disk activity, battery charge %, battery voltage,
current draw (if available), CPU/main board/battery temperatures if
available etc... A laptop dash-board.
16 years, 10 months
