FC4 issues with wireless, sound and serial

[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-06-19 at 14:41 -0400, Jeffrey Ross wrote:
> I have installed FC4 on a IBM Thinkpad 600X however I have 3 problems so 
> far.
> First I can not use the wireless card reliably on the system.  I have a 
> Cisco Aironet 350 wireless card, the system recognized the card and 
> obtains a dhcp address.  I can  then use the network normally for a 
> random amount of time ranging from seconds to usually no more than 15 
> minutes and then all traffic stops.  The easiest way to get the card 
> running again is to pull the card out and re-insert it, once this is 
> done the work "cycle" starts again.  What did I do wrong?

If you are using NetworkManager - try disabling it and using standard
networking.
That worked for me (though different card - madwifi)

> 
> Second, I am unable to use the sound on the system, the sound did work 
> under FC3, lspci shows the sound to be
> 
> 00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 
> [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)

Same thing for me (Thinkpad T20)
I did find though that if I turn all the mixers all the way up - I can
hear static.