From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B7F11381F3 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:58:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7017721C018; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:58:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qc0-f181.google.com (mail-qc0-f181.google.com [209.85.216.181]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AE74121C02B for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 18:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qc0-f181.google.com with SMTP id x40so2391626qcp.40 for ; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:57:20 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=EESyqL9I+zFnu+7Uci0e99cMBFzig1D3GVeSKzgo6Ac=; b=EYqH1kOOFaDFVjJkFFgn/nmourYYU6jSPvf4Bq5mytLIT2M1PC5AdfX53WRBSpZxOI YgA8ogaRGark5SF3T/lENVR0bNTGgiD9lYwsWyEkVZy1Sfz3mYVfLv3IbvZzLWVj2NwU 8ooua3uVN6/rZZRyKKSmkDcXpuhqX1DG/2VfaalOTKZx9rdKPoWpfG9LbAMo446ovTDA 5H9dX5kxTx6yp2/l85vxx1uDqmp3SIrb3XF/MBx/5cz++Z3feOknG+jdlhZH8hi/MWK1 o4LVfgNIIrPPaRHwtri0kFq54dBzGWxfeRZAVnH5busOiKwN1X21kSxDDuzdyWFgkYLm wEzQ== Received: by 10.224.58.66 with SMTP id f2mr512649qah.11.1355252240791; Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:57:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.31.0.2] (cpe-75-87-85-32.kc.res.rr.com. [75.87.85.32]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f7sm8176890qae.7.2012.12.11.10.57.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:57:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50C7820D.3060004@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 12:57:17 -0600 From: "Dustin C. Hatch" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/20.0a1 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: broadcom-sta and the 3.6.x kernel References: <50BDE869.1080101@binarywings.net> <50BE16FC.4080901@gmail.com> <201212071251.58260.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <87obi1klhg.fsf@ist.utl.pt> In-Reply-To: <87obi1klhg.fsf@ist.utl.pt> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 3fd8fd1c-4279-48e0-b8aa-db85d43f7b26 X-Archives-Hash: f195b5e7fa4b1bb30526b9da9ee30036 On 12/11/2012 03:04, Nuno J. Silva wrote: > On 2012-12-07, Mick wrote: >> This sounds scary!!! Isn't there a way of disabling this feature in >> the BIOS? > > With HP, you don't even get a BIOS setup. You get something that tells > you the processor temperature and possibly lets you change the boot > order. > That's exactly the case with this notebook. No settings whatsoever beyond date/time and boot order. >> Have you spoken to the HP police to ask what they can do to allow you to >> manage the machine you bought from them? O_O > > I guess I could do that too. I find it a bit annoying that they don't > even offer a BIOS setup and then decide to silently flip some of the > settings with BIOS upgrades (like disabling AMD-V...) > This machine is long since out of warranty; they won't even speak to me anymore. I was able to use a hex editor to modify the white list at one time, but it didn't matter because the "hardware" radio switch doesn't work with different cards, either, leaving the radio in a permanently off state. Someday, I'll get a more professional notebook, but until then, I'm stuck with the patched broadcom-sta. It does seem to be working fine for now, so I'm not terribly worried. As much as I would prefer to have an open source driver, I also need my machine to work. -- ♫Dustin