Acer laptop problem

[Wise, Jeremey]

-----Original Message-----
From: Amitakhya Phukan [mailto:amitakhya at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, June 18, 2007 12:41 PM
To: Wise, Jeremey
Cc: fedora-laptop-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Acer laptop problem

Wise, Jeremey wrote:
> First break things down a bit more:
>
> ".....I have all kinds of I/O errors............"
>
> This (unfortunately) sounds like a hardware issue. Kind of like your
> drive is going bad. Download the manufacture's disk diagnostic utility
> and run it on the hard drive. Do a full scan. If you have issues
getting
> grub to initiate and you are getting kernel messages about IO, it has
> always proven to be the drive going bad. You may not have 'seen this
> under previous versions" because you simply were not using that
section
> of the hard drive. 
>
>
> IF you pass on the drive test then RSVP with some details on your
> partition layout. Issues related to modules missing etc, could be from
> file level corruption due to bad drive... though the usual response is
> core dump of the kernel. If the system is "shutting off" this again
> could be from the drive being 'flaky'.
>
>
>
>   
hi there !

i think so that it is a hard drive problem... but strangely, now i am
not getting any problems..

--> likely your drive did a block redirect of bad clusters. BUT
WARNING!!!! This is typically conducive of an impending failure of the
drive. Run the disk check utility. If the drive is failing check for
warranty. If it is out of warranty, well.... at least you know your
risk.

another thing... what should i use for my broadcom wireless card ?
ndiswrapper or the bcm43xx_fwcutter rpm ? ndiswrapper worked fine for me
during FC5 days...after that for FC6 and F7, ndiswrapper says a better
driver is bcm43xx... but bcm43xx gives lots of error messages...
---> I, likely your Dell, use Intel wireless and it works great. I do
not have a broadcom chipset to play with and I have tossed what feelers
I can out to a few guys in office who run Linux and have that same
chipset. But to be honest.. they just stuck in another NIC adapter to
get wireless up and working vs debug it. That website is the only bone I
can toss your way.


also, after installing bcm43xx_fwcutter, it is really a pain to view any
of the available networks... my dell laptop (its got an IPW2200) gives a
listing of around 5-6 wireless networks in NetworkManager, but my acer
laptop with broadcom gives me "no wireless networks found" thing..
---> This is a bit confusing. Does it EVER see networks? IF it does and
is a "distance from hub" issue, that is totally different then "never
sees networks" in the list. (Please clarify after testing)

any workaround for this ??
---> Yes keep working at fixing your broadcom chipset (what I would do)
but in the interim, go get a $10 NIC off ebay or from a buddy, to hold
you over till you get broadcom to work.


regards,
amit.

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