xxbeanxx Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Hey all.... I'm just wondering if anyone else has stories about installing mandrake on a toshiba a60. I installed it and found a few problems that I'm hoping some people can help me fix. 1) ACPI support is limited.. Everything seems to work, but if I enable the lid button to hibernate when closed, the computer hibernates at random. I can be in the middle of checking my email and it will hibernate. 2) My ATIIXP soft modem doesn't have a lot of support. I can get the slmodemd drivers to query the modem fine, but whenever I dial I get a NO CARRIER or NO DIALTONE error. 3) I tried using madwifi for my wireless card. It seems to work, just not overly well. The sound card and the wireless card share an IRQ, which caused the sound in KDE to stop working (I think, this could be from an update I recently did). My computer also locks up whenever a wireless network goes out of range, so I have to be careful to take my wireless interface down when I'm done using it. Anyone have any comments? Thanks.. Greg [moved from Hardware by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 Sorry, I can't help with much, except perhaps your modem... have you tried using wvdial? It's pretty good at guessing games and might give your modem the string it needs. # urpmi wvdial btw: Welcome to the board! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havin_it Posted January 17, 2005 Report Share Posted January 17, 2005 (edited) 'ning and welcome I have a A30 - not sure how close the spec is but will help if I can. Haven't tried the winmodem myself but I recall there is quite a long page about them on tldp.org you might want to check out. ACPI - was absolute hell on 10.0 but seems a _bit_ more stable on 10.1 with 2.6 kernel. I never could make my lid button do a hibernate though - it just does a normal logout and shutdown when I press it, no matter what setting I enter in Klaptop (I only use KDE, how about you?). Recommend sticking with Hibernate from the Klaptop tray menu. Wifi card - what model do you have? built-in, or PCMCIA? You might want to check out ndiswrapper.sf.net and see if your card's supported. EDIT: Here's that link about 'lin'modems. It in turn links to a database of supported modems, though that site seems to be down at the moment... :unsure: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linmodem-HOWTO.html Edited January 17, 2005 by Havin_it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxbeanxx Posted January 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Thanks people for your input. It seems as though my sound problem was a configuration problem. Although, I don't know how to fix it.. I had to rm-rf my entire .kde directory before it started working again, and comparing the config settings it looks as though nothing has changed. I'll check out vwdial.... Hopefully that will get my modem working as I need it when I'm at my girlfriend's house. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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