On 06/09/06 09:46 -0600, Ronald G Minnich wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >At this moment I bring back old BIOS already and every thing go back. > >(Marvell wireless can work under slackware) > > this is not as simple as it sounds. Insyde uses a full AMD-supplied VSA. > The VSA does a lot of tricky magic. My guess is that the combo of > slackware+VSA is the issue, not Insyde per se. We still need to see what > is going on.
Slackware, like Fedora (and everything else) is just a combination of packages. Of these packages, only the kernel happens to interact with the i hardware and BIOS in any serious way. If you are not using the correct kernel for this platform and situation, then bad things can and will happen. Slackware has no possible way of understanding the USB wireless or how to configure it. Fedora Rawhide knows, but only because it is up to date, and we have a crack Fedora staff that will do our bidding (insert evil laugh here). Supat will need to make sure that he does the right things to see the wireless: 1) Make sure the antennae are attached 2) Use a recent kernel - with libertas included 3) Use the recommended LinuxBIOS version 4) Mount usbfs on /proc/bus/usb and ensure that the marvell device is listed in 'devices' (vendor=1286, product=2001). 5) Follow http://wiki.laptop.org/go/OS_images and make sure that the most recent firmware is installed in /lib/firmware/usb8388.bin If all of these happen together and in the right order, things should work. If any ofthe steps should fail, then please open a ticket to ensure that we track any problems. After all that, he is welcome to create slackware packages that will ensure others don't have to work so much to see wireless. Its not always fun being the early adopter, but it is rewarding. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
