On Sun, 27 Jan 2008, Richard A. Smith wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> >> 1. the battery light is flashing red all the time (on for ~1 sec out of >> every 4) > > Flashing red means battery error. If you don't have a developer key please > get one. Unlock your machine and then do what ever it takes to cause the red > flashing. Then reboot the machine hit esc at the countdown to to get to an > 'ok' prompt. Then at ok prompt type: > > ec-abnormal@ .
interesting, the battery life hasn't been great, but it's been working. I'll rebootand report the result. > Note the ' .' on the end. That prints out the value. This should print a > number. Please report back what that error code is. > >> 2. I left the laptop running overnight with the screen backlight off. in >> the past I coul wake it up and everything would be good (including alpine >> remaining running and seeing new mail) >> >> this time it had disconnected from my access point and connected to mesh1, >> and when I tried to switch back the mouse was very flaky (a problem I have >> not had in the past) and the machine finally froze, after 15 min I power >> cycled it. > > The system firmware doesn't really have much to do with networking so I'm > confused if it actually made a difference. Was the firmware the only thing > you changed? I upgraded to the joyride version with this firmware, couldn't reach my network, so rebooted to 689, repeated the process with 690, same WEP problem so rebooted to 689 where I had the problem reported above. as I understand it this should have left me with everything the same except the firmware. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel