Steve wrote: > Hi everyone, Hi Dr. Nick!
> > <snip> > > Imagine my surprise when lo and behold my mistyped option "noapic" > instead of "noacpi" appeared to allow the system to boot up normally. > Imagine my further surprise when installing NDiswrapper and the driver > for the Broadcom 4311 (rev 2), went off with out a hitch and my > wireless worked! http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/difference-between-noapic-and-acpioff-kernel-parameters-454675/ > Just add the following lines to the kernel > options in the boot loader "noapic irqpoll". This does indeed make sense since the problem you had booting linux before, and the problem with seeing the wireless card, was probably due to an interrupt problem, which is what both of these keywords address. The original problem likely had nothing to do with acpi at all. > I hope this was enlightening! It was indeed. Typically the problem with these cheap laptops is that getting Linux to effectively run on them is a bear. I hadn't ever thought about the other kernel options, like noapic. > > Sincerely, > Steve -- Michael Torrie Assistant CSR, System Administrator Chemistry and Biochemistry Department Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 +1.801.422.5771 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
