On 6/6/06, Greg Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Corey Burger wrote: > Quick note: Both myself and Jerome have had great luck with our Toshibas. > > On 6/6/06, Greg Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I was wondering if any of the members of the Laptop Testing Team were >> having essentially no luck with their Toshiba laptops like I am. I'm >> going to provide a list of problems from my Tecra A4's wiki page, please >> chime in if you're experiencing any of them. I'm not sure if the Tecra >> A4 is just especially bad in terms of Linux support or if many similar >> models are as well. >> >> Taken from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/ToshibaTecraA4 >> >> * Critical: Ethernet is now once again broken. This is a >> show-stopper for many people. >> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/39862) >> >> >> * Critical: Wireless with the ipw2200 driver is restarting due to >> firmware error, making wireless connectivity impossible. >> >> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/27778) >> >> >> * Major: USB Storage devices do not mount. >> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/47883) >> >> * Moderate: None of the function keys work. >> >> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/hotkey-setup/+bug/20727) > > This affects me. Seems to be a BIOS issue. > Are you affected by all four of those issues? Or just the function keys? I assume just the function keys if the laptop works fine for you. Also, are you on a Tecra of some sort? I can compare some of the hardware if you can get a model number to me if you are indeed running a Tecra of some sort.
Sorry, just the last one.
>> >> * Minor: Card reader isn't likely to work, no Linux driver >> available. >> >> (https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.15/+bug/20964) >> > > Please ask on those bugs how you can move things forward. Offering to > help debug with mjg59 goes quite far (don't just bug him to fix it). > Word it like: "How can I help you useful information for bug X" Yeah, I've been trying to provide as much information as I can. Check those bugs out for a long list of elaborations and replies in hopes of helping the developers out. I've sort of just been rambling on as I found new debug messages to post, I haven't been getting any requests as to what I need to post up. I'm having to manually type debug output out on another machine, as my USB host and ethernet is not cooperating. But I'm most definitely willing to provide what I can if someone asks me for something. And as a side-note, I think Matt is only assigned to one of the bugs I've listed, and as luck would have it, that's the one I can't do right now (Toshiba hotkeys, which requires me to download a driver, which I can't do without working ethernet) :) I'd love to try out his recommendation on that bug, but there is literally no way for me to get anything in or out of my laptop right now aside from manually typing it. Additionally, the sky2 bug has nobody assigned to it and remains unconfirmed and seemingly abandoned, hence the frustration. It was previously assigned to someone but they closed it and myself and another Toshiba user opened it back up again. Since then it hasn't seen any love. But yeah, I'm ready to go if someone can work with me on either the USB or sky2 ethernet issue so I can get some means of transferring things to and from what is more or less an expensive paperweight right now :) I posted a link to some details on the ipw2200 issue that was actually released by the Intel people as well, acknowledging the problem. Hope there's something useful in there for someone.
I am not the best person to talk to. See if you can find mjg59 on irc and ask him to work through your list of bugs with you. Cheers, Corey -- laptop-testing-team mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/laptop-testing-team
