On Saturday 14 January 2006 15:43, Jim Powers wrote: > I am a proud owner of an R3000, I run Gentoo in 64-bit land and I have most > of the hardware working the way I want. But there are two items I would > really like to get working: > > - The media card reader > > - The internal WiFi hardware > > According to the Wiki the media card reader is currently a no-go, unless TI > finds it in their heart to let developers in on the inner workings of the > hardware. Is this still true? > Not that I know of.
> Also the WiFi hardware is apparently based on Broadcom and you're looking > at ndiswrapper and using Windows drivers. I seen stuff that there are > 64-bit Windows drivers and you can probably get it working. Of course, I > would like to minimize Windows cruft on my machine, but is this the only > way? > For a "fully" working wireless yes. But this aproach dosn't really use much windows cruft just the drivers which can be obtained from some website. If there isn't a link in the WIKI then check linuxant.com and their driverloader (a commercial ndiswrapper). They used to have a link to the 64bit windows drivers. There is also a project on creating native drivers for linux: http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/ I'm not sure what their status is though. > Also, what are my chances to getting suspend/resume to work properly? What > kind of batter life can I expect to get after I hack around and get > cpufreqd setup properly? > About suspend, you should be able to get it working in 32bit without much trouble. On 64bit, maybe. I have seen success with amd64 and suspend/resume on the suspend2 mailing list with an amsd64 machine. It jsut had some problems with the binary nvidia drivers. I haven't been able to reproduce it on my laptop because booting the kernel results in a kernel panic comming from ndiswrapper and I didn't have tiem lately to try to solve it. -- Karol Krizka
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