Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel
2008/12/13 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net>:
> On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote:
>>2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net>:
>>> iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :(
>>
>>I'm not using any access restrictions
>>on the access point itself, it's basically open.
>
> Both the APs I need to deal with regularly are WPA Personal.
>
>>Mine is an Acer 5920G-3A2G25MN, suspend and resume working flawlessly.
>
> Inspiron E1505, and suspend and resume are also working well since I got off
> the older ifw3945 driver.
Mines the 4965 but I have been led to believe that they both suffer
the same troubles.
>>What have you been using?
>
> The non-free firmware, which troubles me. I was under the impression that
> free software would drive all the hardware in the laptop, and was a bit
> disappointed that I needed non-free software to use the wifi.
>
> For the next laptop, I will do more research and hopefully get one where all
> the integrated hardware is driven by free software, Debian (preferably
> stable) in specific.
For me it's also the Nvidia blob driver as well :-(
I can get X to work without it but the screen refresh rates are awful,
So bad that movies become unwatchable.
Adrian
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24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths?
<erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to
ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my
apartment it is.
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