On Tuesday 05 September 2006 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > I have purchased a new laptop that has a dual core turion with nvidia > graphics and broadcom wireless (bcm4311). From what I understand, to > take advantage of the dual core I need to use the k7-smp kernel, but > this poses a problem, you see, the wireless card I have does not run > natively (the bcm43xx module does not work with bcm4311) but works well
[snip] > Or I can run the i386 kernel and have wireless and xgl co-existing > happily but then lose the dual core capabilities. The whole tricky road of ubuntu and your own kernel ... You CAN build a SMP i386 kernel ... [snip] > 2) If I cant use the k7-smp kernel and am left with the standard i386, > does that mean I will be using 1 processor while the other lays idol? > thus reducing my processing power and cache by half? > Just to add another dimension - I originally intended to use the k8-smp > kernel, but the manufacturer did not have a xp 64 driver for the > wireless card, so in 64bit there is no wireless at all, other 64bit > drivers I have found for this chipset do not work (I had a similar > problem with 32 bit until I used the driver from the manufacturer and > not other ones I found around the place, even though they were for the > same chipset). > > so option 3 > > 3) get this wireless device to work with a 64 bit driver. But then there > is no certainty I wont end up with same issue as its 32bit counterpart. For me the easiest way was a pcmcia wireless card that did work, abandoning the onboard one. So for me it would be easy: SMP K7 (with slight advantages over 1386) + NVIDIA 64 (again <grin> you need the kernel headers to build this) and an external wireless card. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
