On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 05:02, Tom Vier wrote:
> i recently got this blueberry ibook off of ebay. every cable i've tried
> (which work fine w/ every other nic i have) disconnects if it's not pushed
> completely in. if it's pull on just a little bit, it disconnects, even
> though the bend tab is still holding the connector in. in other words,
> there's too much play inside the ibook's jack. has anyone else had this
> problem? if so, were you able to fix it?
I've seen this problem on a friend's machine. He didn't really look
after it well, and screwed up the connector. You might need to take it
to a Apple store and see what they can do for you.
> it's very annoying when i'm using it in my lap and it disconnects every time
> i move. also the sun gem driver complains everytime it does and keeps
> spitting out warnings, filling syslog, until it's reconnected (i may not
> notice for a while, it i'm in x).
If you really want, you can just comment out this bit of code in
sungem.c, and recompile the kernel. I did this initially, but it is
there for a reason.
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