Dear Linux experts, I've just installed a mandriva (mandrake 10.2) on a new inspiron 9300, most of the hw worked out of the box, but I have still few problems...
... You might want to check in the BIOS to see if the "radio" is turned on. You might have a key combo (mine's FN-F2) to turn the "radio" on/off. Also check to...
Ken, thanks for the help. ... I have already checked, I have just three options: always off, hw on/off and sw on/off, at the moment is on the hw on/off and...
Fixed a typo in previous post. ... -- A lot of us are working harder than we want, at things we don't like to do. Why? ...In order to afford the sort of...
... Hash: SHA1 One thing Irlandes and I agree on is the excellence of CentOS. Well they recently released 4.1 and I just got around to upgrading my Latitude...
... Well, then that's the basic problem. If you can't turn the radio on, you're not going to be able to use the wireless! Maybe if you set the BIOS to "sw...
The radio should default to on. If it doesn't, then there is something wrong with the driver. When all else fails, try the very latest ndiswrapper and a...
Herman
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Jul 1, 2005 8:01 pm
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I am writing this message on my Dell Inspiron 1150 with the Dell WLAN 1350 Mini-PCI Card. I'm running Knoppix 3.7 booting from the CD. My only problem is that...
Yup - same damn problem over here. The way to fix it is to write a little script and store it and the .inf and .sys files on the USB dongle, then run it after...
Herman
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Jul 1, 2005 10:06 pm
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Herman wrote: I created a little wup script and got this going: #! /bin/bash ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -m iwconfig wlan0 mode...
Herman
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Jul 1, 2005 11:01 pm
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Herman wrote: I created a little wup script and got this going: #! /bin/bash ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf modprobe ndiswrapper ndiswrapper -m iwconfig wlan0 mode...
Herman
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Jul 1, 2005 11:39 pm
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Thanks for the help! -Bruce ... make ... connect...
The following may not apply to running linux from a boot disk, but I am able to get my BCM4306 card to work on a Suse 9.3 install (not boot from CD) without...
One more thing, the DHCP line that you add to ifcfg-wlan0 should take care of setting the default gateway and obtainin an IP, if you have DHCP configured. I...
... If the DHCP server is configured correctly, then it will send all the info to the client, including the default GW. So, if you don't receive all the...
Herman
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Jul 3, 2005 6:05 pm
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... Cool. I basically use Knoppix as a test and debug CD, not as a permanent hard disk installation. Getting the WiFi adaptor to work was more of a mental...
Herman
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Jul 3, 2005 6:10 pm
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Hey, I'm running Mandrake 10.1 on my Inspiron 5160. Everything is working great, but I'd like to hook up an external monitor. Every time I hook up the...
... That is a hardware switch function. You should be able to cycle between 3 states: a. Notebook screen b. External screen c. Both However, switching is not...
Herman
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Jul 3, 2005 9:30 pm
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... If you're running the nvidia driver then you can configure X.org for clone or even twin view, which needs manual adjusting of the config file. Best regards...
Christoph Eckert
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Jul 3, 2005 10:15 pm
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I'm getting ready to get a new Dell Inspiron laptop. Can anybody tell me the pros and cons of the Dell 1370 Internal Wireless card to the Intel® PRO/Wireless ...
hi, I am unable to run divx extenstion files in redhat linux. I tried to run with realplayer, but failed. Can you help me, how do i go about it.. Even i tried...
Have you tried Xine? I don't know whether it'll work, but I now it handles a lot of different formats/codexes. Redhat disables certain programs because of...
Hi, How do I find out what my swap drive is? ____________________________________________________ Yahoo! Sports Rekindle the Rivalries. Sign up for Fantasy...
One way is to use fdisk or cfdisk and use the p option. That will print the partition table. If you use the t option, you can look at the octal values of the...
... /swap Do this: $ su - superuserpassword # mount 'Hope this helps! Cheers, H....
Herman
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Jul 4, 2005 5:18 am
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Shan, Thx for posting such a great website. I went ahead and installed FC4 on my 700m. Everyting went smooth acording to your instructions, with one exception....
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, ken wrote: [BIOS settings] ... right, in fact I would like to turn it on :-((( ... well, from what I read (but it could be wrong) the "hw...
... uhm, I didn't try it but it looks they do not supports dell laptops, BTW, I'll keep it in mind and if anything else work I'll try it. thank you for the...
