Constantine, thank you very much for your lengthy reply. Unfortunately I'm a bit swamped with work at the moment, but I'll try things bit by bit and let you know how it goes. On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 03:58 -0500, Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
In regards to the Broadcom wifi, I found Linuxant's solution superb. Check www.linuxant.com. Yes, I know, it is not free and many open-source purists may want to hang me. I'm not concerned as long as it works. People who just everything to be free and oss are hindering Linux's growth. My problem with the Broadcom is not so much the linux support - it works with ndiswrapper, but only as good as it does in Windows, which isn't fantastic at all. Maybe it's not apparent if you just use the Broadcom, but I used to use a Netgear WG511T (Atheros) PCMCIA card and the difference in reception, stability and performance is clear. Either ways, I ordered an Intel mini-PCI card for the notebook, so that should take care of this issue. When that arrives I'll donate my broadcom to the guys who are busy writing a linux driver for it.
Concerning PCMCIA, it was perfectly well in my system. You may need to use the 'setpci' command to let your system know behind which subordinate PCI bus your PCMCIA is hiding. This is what 'lspci -v' says about my PCMCIA: My problem seems more related to module loading. After a lot of tingering, I managed to load the correct modules in the correct order and it worked, but I never managed to reproduce that. SUSE 10.0 seems to have some modules issues - on my PC the optical drives go dead from time to time, and all I have to do is rmmd ide-cd and cdrom and then modprobe them again. So I'm not too worried.
Thanks for all your work regarding the sound. I'll let you know if I have any luck. Hans