[ Date Index ] [ Thread Index ] [ <= Previous by date / thread ] [ Next by date / thread => ]
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Grant Sewell wrote: > I have a new toy that came with Vista pre-installed. I do not know if > this is an HP specific "feature" or not, but today I discovered > something quite "interesting" about Microsoft Windows Vista... > > I went to shut it down properly, not the default hibernate (suspend to > disk) but a proper shutdown. I thought it was shutting down nicely, so > I closed the lid. The default (and current) setting is that closing the > lid will put it into standby (suspend to RAM). Several hours later I > open up the laptop to find it resumes from RAM and then continues > shutting down as I had wanted. I think this is something of a generic Windows problem. You don't tend to see it with Linux because a) acpid tends to get shutdown fairly quickly, so there is nothing to respond to ACPI events and b) you tend to have to try hard to make most Linux distributions take a long time to shutdown. Whereas Vista appears to manage this as a "standard feature". > > Now *that's* a bit stupid. Only if you look at it from the engineering POV... > > Now that rant's off my chest... anyone got any positive stories about > AR5007 chipset wireless cards under Linux? That's what's in this baby. > I've got it to the point where it will now see the wireless networks > about, just not connect to them! Arghgh! Current distro of choice Does iwconfig show an association with an access point? It is possible to get some strange behaviour if the driver is almost, but not quite correct. > being Ubuntu 8.0.4, but others are welcome. :) http://blog.linuxoss.com/2008/05/ubuntu-804-enabling-atheros-ar5007-based-wireless/ Has instructions on how to do this with the madwifi driver. Since this driver isn't part of the standard kernel (or the Ubuntu .deb) you will need to rebuild it (and make sure that the modules wind up in the right part of /lib/modules) if the kernel is updated. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIf9MysoRLMhsZpFcRAoWFAJ45ZUwgKPDWxVc1RxQoKkrDcUSYKQCgjjpR rv0RAoQlv3yfiYkBDkB7IMA= =NlAa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html