Re: Brand-new notebook useless with Linux...

[roucaries bastien <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

On 9/4/05, Paul Misner <paul@misner.org> wrote: 
> On Saturday 03 September 2005 5:58 pm, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > I just bought a new notebook.  Here is the output from lspci using the 
> > latest pci.ids file from sourceforge:
> >
> ...
> > controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g
> > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) 05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments
> > 05:09.4 Class 0805: Texas Instruments PCI6411, PCI6421, PCI6611, PCI6621,
> > PCI7411, PCI7421, PCI7611, PCI7621 Secure Digital (SD) Controller
> >
> > None of these work and I can find no support anywhere for them: 
> >
> > SMBus
> > Audio ("unknown codec")
> > Modem ("no codec available")
> > Wireless
> > FlashMedia
> > SD/MMC
> >
> > Additionally, the system clock runs at 2x normal speed with PowerNow 
> > enabled.
> >
> > Am I stuck with running XP on this thing?
> >
> > __
> > Chuck
> > -
> 
> >You already had an answer on the audio.  Your answer on the wireless is
> >ndiswrapper.  You should really be looking at the Linux r3000 list, which 
> >handles much more than that now.  The information for that list is:
> >
> >LinuxR3000 mailing list
> >LinuxR3000@lists.pcxperience.com
> > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000
> >Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
 
 
Or help to rewrite from scracth broadcom drivers see
http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/ for the specs. Unfortunatly, I have
no time to do this but I expect somebody have...
 
> >If those folks don't know how to make you notebook run, you are in serious
> >trouble.  I have a Compaq R3120US, which I learned how to set up from the 
> >people over there.  Notebooks are very different from most other computers,
> >and you can expect to take some extra time and effort to get one set up.
> 
> >An important note about your wireless is that even with ndiswrapper, not all 
> >Windows drivers are created equal, and you may need to try several for the
> >same chip from different sources to find one that works.
> 
> >Good luck with your SD/MMC reader, that tends to be something that doesn't 
> >work under Linux because the manufacturers haven't released the information
> >needed to create proper drivers for them.
> 
> >Mandriva tends to work great on notebooks, once you install the proper
> >wireless driver, I have had good luck with Mepis as well, and I know many 
> >people running Fedora as well.  Your other big challenge, maybe the biggest
> >one, is going to be the display, at least if you have an uncommon display
> >like the 1280 X 800 on my notebook.
> 
> >Paul 
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