From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G8pK4-00050S-VU for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Aug 2006 02:22:01 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k742Kii7013660; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:20:44 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k742Kg1P015872 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:20:43 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D5CC647A4 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:20:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 05093-12 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:20:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (lightening.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.77]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B32B6479D for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 02:20:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.252] (220-253-101-168.TAS.netspace.net.au [220.253.101.168]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C4E7375879 for ; Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:20:36 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <44D2AF09.4050108@burnieanglican.org.au> Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2006 12:20:57 +1000 From: Will Briggs User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (X11/20060802) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-laptop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-laptop] Introduction & Inspiron 6400 X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.544 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.055, BAYES_00=-2.599] X-Spam-Score: -2.544 X-Spam-Level: X-Archives-Salt: 737fceb8-7c1f-466a-81b1-df1ad29bda4e X-Archives-Hash: da740b80af70fdec2d85a9c01e579d56 G'day all, Having been a gentoo user for a number of years now I have recently installed onto a Dell Inspiron 6400 and am now experiencing the adrenalin rush of gettin wireless and other laptoppy things (fglrx for the X1400 etc.) up and running. So... my first post to gentoo-laptop. I have now reached the point of the basics working, but coping with some minor annoyances - those sort of things that usually take hours of googling etc. resulting in a 30 second fix. So having googled for hours I'm wondering if people can give me the simple advice on the following: 1) The ksynaptics "syndock" applet tells me that "You need at least driver version 0.14.4" but I have that: emerge -pv synaptics... [ebuild R ] x11-drivers/synaptics-0.14.5-r1 USE="-dlloader" 0 kB Before I bugs.g.o this have I missed something obvious? 2) I'm having intermittent problems with the Intel Pro 3945ABG wireless. Under windows the connection to my access point is solid as a rock. Under gentoo the network occassionally hangs - Restarting the card sometimes fixes it, restarting the access point sometimes fixes it. I'm currently exploring to make sure that it is the wireless and not something else (NFS or something else higher up) that is hanging. An interesting little quirk is that under windows the little "wifi" LED light is on solid, under linux it's on sometimes solid, sometimes quivering - might be indicative or something. Interested in others experience here though. My set up for the wireless works but seems a little messy - I'm wondering if people can reccomend improvements: portage has ipw3945 ipw3945d ipw3945-ucode which provides the kernel level stuff (and provides eth1 I guess). ipw3945d is run at init. net.eth1 is not in init but instead runs from ifplugd so that I don't get hangs etc. on boot when I'm not at home. /etc/conf.d/net sets eth1 to be dhcp and loads wpa_supplicant as a module wpa_supplicant has ssid and keys and stuff in config and works - by the time I login on console the network is up. kwifimanager then runs when I get into KDE Thoughts? Next things to do are to work on cpu stepping, bluetooth, hibernation/standby stuff and things like that. Ain't it fun? Regards, Will. -- gentoo-laptop@gentoo.org mailing list