On 12/27/05, Hans du Plooy
1. Onboard Wireless: Broadcom BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] - it doesn't have a linux driver. I set up ndiswrapper, and that works fine, but it is junk - poor reception, poor performance, unstable. But I can live with that, for now. The problem is, when I do network intensive stuff, like copy big files, the notebook sometimes reboot. Not reset, just a normal reboot as if I typed "reboot" in the cli.
I have not managed to get it to work at all. Can you maybe send me a few pointers on how you did it?
2. Booting hangs at the "loading keymap" or something like that bit. When that happens I press the wireless/bluetooth button twice (switch off + switch on) and it continues to boot normally.
Hmm.. I have not had this problem at all. Originally installed SuSE 9.3, then did a partial upgrade to OpenSUSE 10 RC1. Then re-installed with SuSE 10 when that came out. All were 64-bit versions. I had major CPU fequency problems with SuSE 9.3, never this problem with the keymap.
3. PCMCIA - doesn't work at all. It's a normal well supported controller, uses the yenta driver. But when you stick something into
Never tried using it.
4. ACPI doesn't work well. the CPU heats up to about 75 degrees celcius before the fan comes on. Sometimes the fan doesn't switch off. The different powersave profiles doesn't work correctly either. On "performance" it sticks to 1800mhz, on anything els it sits on 800mhz. I would expect that on "dynamic" it should raise the CPU speed if I compile something or do something CPU intensive, but it doesn't. I have fiddled endlessly with the options, modifying the profiles, to no avail.
The BIOS have some MS compiled stuff in it that causes ACPI problems. There is a way of fixing it by fixing the errors and recompile it. I have not had time to do that yet. But my CPU frequency scaling work perfectly. It ranges between 800MHz and 1800 MHz. Normally sits at 800 and then when I run some CPU-hogging app, it will shoot up to about 1200 and then 1800, but will come down soon again. The temperature stayes around 40 deg. The fan very seldom comes on. If it does, (at around 75 deg) it soon cools the machine down to the 60's and shuts off again. But that is rarely required.
One more question:
The notebook has a biometric sensor. Has anyone worked with such hardware? Could you please point me to good documentation? It would be nice to play around with this too.
I would also be interested in some docs. THis is all I found up to now: http://www.amc.com.au/lca/loopback/papers/Alexander_Reeder/Alexander_Reeder.... -- Andre Truter | Software Engineer | Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 | AIM: trusoftzaf | http://www.trusoft.za.org ~ A dinosaur is a salamander designed to Mil Spec ~