Problems with Dell M60 laptop

[Williams Jr, Ernest L.]

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[mailto:fedora-test-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Ow Mun Heng
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 10:18 PM
To: fedora-test-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Problems with Dell M60 laptop

On Fri, 2004-09-24 at 17:38, Simon Sedgwick wrote:
> Just installed FC3t2 and I'm having all kinds of strange issues:
> 
> 1, Machine is a 2GHz Pentium-M, in the messages log you can see it
> keeps adjusting the clock speed between 1.4G and 2G.

Speedstep??
> 
> 2, The broadcom network card (which is now auto detected) run's like a
> dog.
Meaning??

mii-tool eth0?

> 3, I want to install the linuxant driver so I can get my Wi-Fi card to
> work (works with FC1) but how to I go about compiling a 16k stack????

Why linuxant? what Wifi card do you own? If it's the intel ones... try
ipw2000.sourceforge.net(? url) and ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net (? url)

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Hopefully, there will be a pure linux driver for the M60's internal
wireless interface.  NDIS is terrible and unpure!!




Recompiple your kernel. Make xconfig ans look at the kernel options

> 4, Nvidia's driver causing issues too, I don't get any error messages
> in the logs but the screen goes black for a second and then comes
> back.
> 
> Simon 
> 
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2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive 
Neuromancer 09:59:55 up 12:22, 6 users, load average: 0.69, 1.35, 1.99 

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