either usb or wireless
Hi there,
Bear with me here, this is an odd one... Broadband has arrived at the monkey household and I have been working on setting up the wireless network. This has proved to be quite easy using madwifi and their well written instructions. However... Using a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo L7310GW laptop I am faced with a terrible choice as indicated in my title. Due to a wobbly BIOS I have to pass the command ACPI=OFF to the kernel at boot. This means that the integrated Atheros AR5005G wireless card is not assigned an ICQ number at boot, dmesg showing the following message: Quote:
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I want to be able to use both USB devices, specifically my mouse and use wireless too. One solution that didn't work for me is located here: http://www.mepis.org/node/12174 Ideas appreciated... |
Your link clearly indicates this is a kernel bug with some debian kernels. If that's the case and the irqpoll or pci=biosirq workarounds don't work for you, there's really not much you can do other than look for another workaround or try a newer/different kernel. For example, according to this:
http://www.mail-archive.com/acpi-bug.../msg05305.html the problem did not occur with the 2.6.16 kernel. You could try fooling around with your bios settings as well to see if that has any effect but it doesn't look like that would help. |
Good news, a success.
Following your advice I upgraded from Sarge to Etch, something I can now easily do with broadband, and changed my boot commands as so: Removed ACPI=OFF and added IRQPOLL All worked fine, wireless internet is a bobby dazzler and Mrs Monkey is very pleased. |
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