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My home computer is a Lenovo R60 currently running Slackware 11, a home rolled 2.6.20.4 SMP kernel with pretty much everything working and Dropline Gnome. The only things not working are suspend to disk but I am not in a hurry to fix that because I don't need it and some Firefox video plugins which I will fix as needed. Email me if your computer is similar and I will help if I can.
Computer stuff:
Intel core2 duo processor with two throttling modes: conservative (holds them at 1 Ghz each most of the time) and userspace which ramps them up to full (1.66 Ghz) all the time. These are controlled by bash scripts, email me if you want the scripts.
eth0 is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express which works fine using the Tigon driver in my kernel.
Wifi is a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection which works great using the IPW drivers. I also use my computer to share my wired 'net connection wirelessly using a script and the firestarter firewall. Again, email me if you want to know how to do this, it is useful, saves having to buy a wireless router and gives more control over who is logging on.
Hard drive is SATA, with ReiserFS, it took a bit of fiddling to get this to work with LILO because when you boot the Slackware install disks even the sata.i kernel insists on recognizing it as /dev/hd* but when you install LILO and reboot the disk shows up as /dev/sd* and naturally LILO can't find it's config file because /dev/hd* is now /dev/sd*. My work-around was to use a live CD to mount the drive, edit the LILO config file and rewrite LILO to /dev/sda1. Again, feel free to email me if you need help with this.
Getting DMA on the DVD was also not easy. On first install Slackware 11, even using the huge26 kernel might put it at /dev/hdc if you have SATA drives. The fix that worked for me is to fix up the HD stuff and then enter the BIOS and change the disk mode to AHCI instead of compatibility mode and bingo! DMA kicks in and movies are watchable!
I can't get the damn thing to print wirelessly to my wife's XP machine. This feature worked seamlessly with Ubuntu but not in Slackware 11/Dropline Gnome. If you can help I would appreciate an email
Printing works now, feel free to email me if you need help. The problem was that Slackware needed a few special files for my printer (HP LaserJet 1020) and because the printer is attached to a Windows machine it takes a bit of guesswork to figure out the CUPS settings.
My home computer is a Lenovo R60 currently running Slackware 11, a home rolled 2.6.20.4 SMP kernel with pretty much everything working and Dropline Gnome. The only things not working are suspend to disk but I am not in a hurry to fix that because I don't need it and some Firefox video plugins which I will fix as needed. Email me if your computer is similar and I will help if I can.
Computer stuff:
Intel core2 duo processor with two throttling modes: conservative (holds them at 1 Ghz each most of the time) and userspace which ramps them up to full (1.66 Ghz) all the time. These are controlled by bash scripts, email me if you want the scripts.
eth0 is a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express which works fine using the Tigon driver in my kernel.
Wifi is a Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection which works great using the IPW drivers. I also use my computer to share my wired 'net connection wirelessly using a script and the firestarter firewall. Again, email me if you want to know how to do this, it is useful, saves having to buy a wireless router and gives more control over who is logging on.
Hard drive is SATA, with ReiserFS, it took a bit of fiddling to get this to work with LILO because when you boot the Slackware install disks even the sata.i kernel insists on recognizing it as /dev/hd* but when you install LILO and reboot the disk shows up as /dev/sd* and naturally LILO can't find it's config file because /dev/hd* is now /dev/sd*. My work-around was to use a live CD to mount the drive, edit the LILO config file and rewrite LILO to /dev/sda1. Again, feel free to email me if you need help with this.
Getting DMA on the DVD was also not easy. On first install Slackware 11, even using the huge26 kernel might put it at /dev/hdc if you have SATA drives. The fix that worked for me is to fix up the HD stuff and then enter the BIOS and change the disk mode to AHCI instead of compatibility mode and bingo! DMA kicks in and movies are watchable!
I can't get the damn thing to print wirelessly to my wife's XP machine. This feature worked seamlessly with Ubuntu but not in Slackware 11/Dropline Gnome. If you can help I would appreciate an email
Printing works now, feel free to email me if you need help. The problem was that Slackware needed a few special files for my printer (HP LaserJet 1020) and because the printer is attached to a Windows machine it takes a bit of guesswork to figure out the CUPS settings.
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The best place on the 'net to waste time:
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