Comments on: Wow. Fast. http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2007/02/09/wow-fast/ Tue, 10 May 2011 20:43:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2007/02/09/wow-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-422 Daniel Sat, 10 Feb 2007 15:34:58 +0000 http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2007/02/09/wow-fast/#comment-422 Nice to know I'll have help if needed. :) My friend just got an Asus with the ipw3945 card, and he's had a few problems to, but I have had only one problem: If I start the card eith neth.eth1, stop it, and then start networkmanager, the card acts as if the rfkill switch was hit, and doesn't come back unless you remove and reload the module. However, since I don't plan on using netl.eth1 anymore, I should be fine. I did discover afer writing this post that it wasn't cardbus in the thing. I have no idea if it's supported. The xD reader needs the xD driver. :) It's supposed to work based on pages I've seen, but I only have mmc, so I may never know. I know about 915resoution; You'll notice I didn't say it worked flawlessly out of the box. But I'll put up with a few, minor, temporary quirks for the level of support I have. Nice to know I’ll have help if needed. :) My friend just got an Asus with the ipw3945 card, and he’s had a few problems to, but I have had only one problem: If I start the card eith neth.eth1, stop it, and then start networkmanager, the card acts as if the rfkill switch was hit, and doesn’t come back unless you remove and reload the module. However, since I don’t plan on using netl.eth1 anymore, I should be fine.

I did discover afer writing this post that it wasn’t cardbus in the thing. I have no idea if it’s supported.

The xD reader needs the xD driver. :) It’s supposed to work based on pages I’ve seen, but I only have mmc, so I may never know.

I know about 915resoution; You’ll notice I didn’t say it worked flawlessly out of the box. But I’ll put up with a few, minor, temporary quirks for the level of support I have.

]]> By: Daniel Drake http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2007/02/09/wow-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-421 Daniel Drake Sat, 10 Feb 2007 04:47:48 +0000 http://gryniewicz.com/blogs/dang/2007/02/09/wow-fast/#comment-421 Ooh, I have the same system! Although a slightly older version with the original Intel Core duo rather than core2. It's a really nice system, I especially like the quietness. Quirks so far have been: - reading xD cards with the inbuilt card reader doesn't work (trying the sdhci driver, but I suspect the xD part requires its own driver entirely) - ipw3945 crashes my system quite a lot (hard freeze, probable kernel panic on the console). I only use it on occasion anyway because I develop a driver for a USB-based wifi chip which I like to use as much as possible. - 1440x900 resolution doesnt work without using i915resolution to patch the video BIOS on every boot. This issue will go away when the modesetting branch of xf86-video-i810 is stabilised (video BIOS won't be used any more) - bought a cardbus wifi card for driver development without realising that this laptop has the successor to cardbus instead. oops! - seemant has the US version of this (the E1405 -- can't see any differences other than keyboard layout) and it blew up the other day (random crashes/freezes). hopefully not a sign of things to come for us! I'd be interested to know which of these you do/don't see as well. Ooh, I have the same system! Although a slightly older version with the original Intel Core duo rather than core2.

It’s a really nice system, I especially like the quietness. Quirks so far have been:

– reading xD cards with the inbuilt card reader doesn’t work
(trying the sdhci driver, but I suspect the xD part requires its own driver entirely)

– ipw3945 crashes my system quite a lot (hard freeze, probable kernel panic on the console). I only use it on occasion anyway because I develop a driver for a USB-based wifi chip which I like to use as much as possible.

– 1440×900 resolution doesnt work without using i915resolution to patch the video BIOS on every boot. This issue will go away when the modesetting branch of xf86-video-i810 is stabilised (video BIOS won’t be used any more)

– bought a cardbus wifi card for driver development without realising that this laptop has the successor to cardbus instead. oops!

– seemant has the US version of this (the E1405 — can’t see any differences other than keyboard layout) and it blew up the other day (random crashes/freezes). hopefully not a sign of things to come for us!

I’d be interested to know which of these you do/don’t see as well.

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