2008/12/13 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bs...@volumehost.net>: > On Friday 2008 December 12 22:41:17 Adrian Levi wrote: >>2008/12/11 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bs...@volumehost.net>: >>> iwl3945 -- My personal cross to bear. :( >> >>I'm not using any access restrictions >>on the access point itself, it's basically open. > > Both the APs I need to deal with regularly are WPA Personal. > >>Mine is an Acer 5920G-3A2G25MN, suspend and resume working flawlessly. > > Inspiron E1505, and suspend and resume are also working well since I got off > the older ifw3945 driver.
Mines the 4965 but I have been led to believe that they both suffer the same troubles. >>What have you been using? > > The non-free firmware, which troubles me. I was under the impression that > free software would drive all the hardware in the laptop, and was a bit > disappointed that I needed non-free software to use the wifi. > > For the next laptop, I will do more research and hopefully get one where all > the integrated hardware is driven by free software, Debian (preferably > stable) in specific. For me it's also the Nvidia blob driver as well :-( I can get X to work without it but the screen refresh rates are awful, So bad that movies become unwatchable. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? <erno> hm. I've lost a machine.. literally _lost_. it responds to ping, it works completely, I just can't figure out where in my apartment it is. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org