A few weeks have past and I have had no time for code hacking, I have finished most of my backed up work and now am left with some extra time on my hands.
I need to assign some quality time with Kopete and KNotes, this week will help me get back full speed.
More on this during the week.
I finally got a chance to work on KDE this week, it seems that there is some porting needed for KNotes, will work on it tonight.
More on this as I go along…. Stay Tuned!
Just bought a brand spanking used “Intel Pro/Wireless 3945ABG Mini PCI-E Express 3945 ABG” for my compaq laptop, So I don’t have to use that bloody broadcom card.
Guess what…..
It doesn’t work T_T and I had everything ready to patch the bios… but nothing… does not even recognize the darn thing.
-20 USD
Half a year ago I found my self in dire need for a laptop, the main reason being an upcoming business trip that required me to have a laptop or risk madness.
I decided to go get one that same day to replace my old deceased vaio laptop, checked out a few bargain places in my local area ( all rubbish ) and by the end of the day I decided to go to Fry’s Electronics, picked the first laptop I found that was all black, dual core and AMD. This Compaq v3010us came to as an open box special and had everything I wanted!
Well after getting it home and killing off the existing HD data y noticed a few things… no Infrared or Bluetooth as promoted at the store and on the laptop it self, no biggie since I don’t really use them, but there it was… it has a BROADCOM wifi card :(
First thing I did was take the bloody thing out of the bottom of the laptop and release the IRQ, I went to eBay and bought a mighty Ralink USB adapter ( I try to keep everything as Free as possible on my systems ). In a little over a week I had my wifi usb adapter and that was when the trouble began…
The driver did not support SMP, that means if I wanted to use the ralink adapter I needed to turn off one of my CPU cores… That was not going to happen so I risked it and used it anyways on my SMP kernel with many many lockups along the way…
I decided to bin the buggy thing and get a new one ( it might be just that adapter right? Nop ) I had the same problems with my new adapter.. so I decided to break my clean Gentoo system and build the drivers straight from the driver site since the newer drivers do not warn about SMP ( that must mean it kinda works right? Nop again ) I had the same problems if not more with the new drivers, lockups on plugin or removal on random usage or it might just stop working all together.
After the 3rd time I lost important data because of a lockup caused by that bloody adapter I installed extra cabling all over my house and left the wifi unused… A week ago I decided to dig out that darn BROADCOM card and give it a try. After a few minutes it was working quite well… I just binned the new ralink usb adapter and I plan on using the BROADCOM wifi until I find a PCI-MINI wifi card that can replace it on this laptop.
* Gentoo 2007.0 LiveCD ISO
* +1GB USB Flash Drive
* syslinux mtools lilo must be available
NOTICE: If you use Gentoo and want to do this, you already know your way around linux, there is no point in making a baby step tutorial.
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