Right so, in my wisdom I gave up on the 1.2200 kernel a bit too soon and did some drastic measures which I still regret. Now I'm happily running on the newest, 2.6.18-1.2239.fc5 kernel, and everything seemed to work smoothly... But no.
I used to run this machine wirelessly with ndiswrapper, but now it doesen't seem to work anymore, that was with the 2.6.17-1.2178(I think) kernel. Now I am getting a lot of the problems that a lot of other people have with ndiswrapper, but none of the solutions, I have seen have worked for me. Right now I'm not even sure if the NIC is working or the system just thinks it is.
The chipset of the wireless NIC is RaLink rt2500 revision 1.
iwconfig gives this:
Code:
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 has been compiled with version 20
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19.
Some things may be broken...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s Tx-Power:20 dBm Sensitivity=-120 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
iwconfig doesen't support version 20? Ok, I think I had that error when it last worked so, I'm pretty sure that it's not that important. Obviously the NIC is there but can't connect. I know for a fact that the wlan is working, cause my mother's laptop works just a treat.
dmesg shows, among other things, this:
Code:
intel_rng: FWH not detected
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] enabled at IRQ 10
PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 10, io base 0x00001200
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] enabled at IRQ 11
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 11, io base 0x00001600
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] enabled at IRQ 10
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[D] -> Link [LNKH] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
PCI: cache line size of 32 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 10, io mem 0xfebff000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] enabled at IRQ 5
PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64
usb 2-1: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse as /class/input/input3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb-0000:00:1d.1-1
intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50474 usecs
intel8x0: clocking to 48000
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] enabled at IRQ 3
PCI: setting IRQ 3 as level-triggered
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKE] -> GSI 3 (level, low) -> IRQ 3
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:01:02.0 to 64
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xce81e000, 00:40:d0:6d:a8:d0, IRQ 3
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.3[B] -> Link [LNKB] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.2 (Mar 22, 2004)
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
lp: driver loaded but no devices found
SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ibm_acpi: ec object not found
ACPI: Video Device [GFX0] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.4 loaded
EXT3 FS on dm-0, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on hda1, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: initialized (dev hda1, type ext3), uses xattr
SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs
Adding 458744k swap on /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:458744k
SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
ip_conntrack version 2.4 (1791 buckets, 14328 max) - 228 bytes per conntrack
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
ndiswrapper version 1.25 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver rt2500 (Ralink Technology, Inc.,06/10/2004, 2.02.06.0000) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:01.0[A] -> Link [LNKD] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11
ndiswrapper: using IRQ 11
wlan0: vendor: 'IEEE 802.11g Wireless Card.'
wlan0: ethernet device 00:10:60:0c:79:93 using NDIS driver rt2500, 1814:0201.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA; AES/CCMP with WPA
usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
audit(1163264687.538:3): audit_pid=1765 old=0 by auid=4294967295 subj=system_u:system_r:auditd_t:s0
SELinux: initialized (dev rpc_pipefs, type rpc_pipefs), uses genfs_contexts
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.10
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
Bluetooth: HIDP (Human Interface Emulation) ver 1.1
SELinux: initialized (dev autofs, type autofs), uses genfs_contexts
[drm] Initialized drm 1.0.1 20051102
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:02.0[A] -> Link [LNKA] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10
[drm] Initialized i915 1.5.0 20060119 on minor 0
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:02.1 (0000 -> 0002)
[drm] Initialized i915 1.5.0 20060119 on minor 1
I've bolded the wlanbits so it will be easier to see, I might have been running linux for a while, but I'm still not too good at configurations, so please bear with me here
I have read in some places that you should not run the
ndiswrapper -m
ndiswrapper -l
Instead make a file somewhere, this I haven't tried, but I am quite upset with this thing now and I'm not quite thinking straight so I'll take a break until monday or so.
The next problem I have is that I seem to be quite stupid when it comes to google.. I can't find information on how to get openGL and whatnot to run properly on this chipset.. I did actually give up on this the last time, but since XGL is out there, it looks mighty tempting. I have a quite good graphics card in here as is evident from my attempts at running xgl under berrylinux live, it is slow, but it draws the graphics out faster than on my stationary box(which also has no wifi atm, but another day another grief) which is impressive seing as this thing is rather old and sluggish, and my stationary is more or less state of the art.
Now from lspci I get:
Code:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.1 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:00.3 System peripheral: Intel Corporation 82852/82855 GM/GME/PM/GMV Processor to I/O Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-M) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 83)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801DBM (ICH4-M) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
01:01.0 Network controller: RaLink Ralink RT2500 802.11G Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)
01:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
The obvious was to me to check intel's site, since I know they have linux drivers available, I found the one that matches mine, installed it somewhat successfully(this is all some time ago so I'm not really clear on the details, I've yet to try again since as I mentioned I haven't really found any information to help me through..) but then upon testing with glxgears it still gave the same FPS rating, somewhere in the 500 FPS region.
Any hints and tips are welcome.
Now this is my biggest problem and it is really a problem that I think there's no good solution to, but I'll try.
This version of the Easynote came with 1.3GhZ, 256MB ram and I think a 128 MB graph card, I think it has some sort of shared memory technology, but I'm not sure. I really like Fedora Core, and if possible I'd like to run it on my laptop, if not Berry Linux is a possibility. I have a problem with response, it's somewhat sluggish and slow to respond, it swaps quite a lot and so on.
The obvious answer is to trim down the system, but how far can I trim it down before I loose the functions that I like to have around?
I'll openly admit to not having looked too closely into this subject, but if anyone would be kind and spoint me along I'd appreciate it
whew, all done, there might be more problems hidden around, but so far I haven't encountered those, and hopefully when I do I'll figure out how to fix it myself.
