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which does not sound very encouraging. Well, the driver almost works under 2.6.10, which however seems to have stability problems, but I could not try it under 2.4.29-pre3 as theacx100: It looks like you've been coaxed into buying a wireless network card acx100: that uses the mysterious ACX100/ACX111 chip from Texas Instruments. acx100: You should better have bought e.g. a PRISM(R) chipset based card, acx100: since that would mean REAL vendor Linux support. acx100: Given this info, it's evident that this driver is quite EXPERIMENTAL, acx100: thus your mileage may vary. Visit http://acx100.sf.net for support.
yenta_socket PCMCIA driver for
my Toshiba S2800-500 laptop just locks up the system.> Most of the time everything behaves as expected (iwconfig reports > back Link quality of 88/92, -16dbm signal type figures), but > occasionally the connection dies and iwconfig reports 0/92 link > quality and shows something like 107/153 for signal level. It > normally connects again within a minute or so. I think I've already said this in this august forum, but here it is again... WiFi is free of license fees because nobody else wants to use the 2.4ghz band, being as it is, full of interference from microwave ovens. So if one of your neighbours has a faulty microwave oven, your connection will die whenever they microwave something.
usb-storage driver load but does not register
itself with the SCSI subsystem. One has to use the
ub driver to handle flash USB storage devices.
linux-kernel mailing list:
ub driver is compiled, the
usb-storage code stops handling the devices
handled by the ub driver, that is all USB
storage devices that implements the bulk only
subset of the transparent SCSI protocol, in other
words usually flash devices.ub driver is still highly experimental,
it supported by DEVFS but not in legacy device name mode,
and is meant to be more reliable than
usb-storage for slow devices (like flash card
readers).cool to look but slow to loadpages I have noticed some surprising advice, that to improve page loading times one should have a browser cache that is as small a possible, both for Mozilla and Firefox, and in particular for MS Internet Explorer. The same notes then give a series of steps to reduce the cache to the minimum size possible for those browsers.
open the right path.
Temporary Internet Files directory has
subdirectories, but that's always and only four, which helps
only a bit, one can still end up with a dozens of thousands of
cached objects per directory.
whoooshdue to the speed of the air passing through it. The reduction in speed in my case caused no increase in temperature.
e100 and the eepro100
drivers, so perhaps it is not the driver).
| Application | First instance | Futher instances | Further tabs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Konsole | 5.0MiB | 2.5MiB | 0.25MiB |
| URXVT | 1.2MiB | 1.2MiB | - |
vsftpd
was doing a sendfile(2) call. I used the
use_sendfile=NO configuration option and I got
double the transfer rate, at the same speed. Still only about
1MB/s, and still 100% CPU usage.
sendfile) between e100 and
eepro100. No improvement. Ha! I suspect it is a
2.6.x related issue, when using 2.4.x it was doing the usual
6-7MB/s. Mystery though..
2.6.8.1, and got the usual hard crashes because
of bad memory allocation and/or improper locking in various
places, but usually in the some ACPI module.
2.6.9-rc3, and disabled the
loading of ACPI modules, and all seems fine so far. I was keen
to try the new 2.6 kernel series and its new features,
especially the elevator.
vanillakernel is now too large and complicated to be maintained by volunteers, and I think that Linus is fully aware of this.
cxacru
driver. From the stack backtrace it turns out that the lockup
is trigged by cxacru but actually is a bad
pointer inside the sctp code:
Adhoc e091bbc2 <[sctp]sctp_make_heartbeat_ack+12/70> Adhoc e0b1098c <END_OF_CODE+1a2c9/????> Adhoc c02144a8 <uhci_call_completion+1b8/200> Adhoc c021453c <uhci_finish_completion+4c/70> Adhoc c010a558 <handle_IRQ_event+48/80> Adhoc c010a713 <do_IRQ+83/e0> Adhoc c010cbe8 <call_do_IRQ+5/d>I had loaded the
sctp module thinking I would
experiment with it, but it does also actually run, and it seems the interrupt time code is not quite bug free yet. Using two newish half maintained interacting drivers together is pushing it... I have just disabled
sctp.sysvinit
package is really aweful, and the idea of having non-daemon
initialization scripts in /etc/init.d/ particularly
dumb.
/etc/init.d/mountvirtfs, and that
/etc/init.d/checkroot.sh (why do some of the
scripts end in .sh and some don't?) calls it
unconditionally even if it is disabled in
/etc/runlevel.conf or the usual symlink forest.
/etc/fstab itself, to extract the mount options,
and then issues the mount command. Why not just
do the mount and let the it get the options?
#! /bin/sh for M in '/proc' '/sys' '/tmp' '/dev/shm' '/dev/pts' '/proc/bus/usb' do grep -q "$M" /proc/mounts 2> /dev/null || mount "$M"; doneThe whole structure of the boot sequence still feels very wrong.
sleeve bearingfan.
Documentation is an important part of being able to effectively use any piece of software. That's true for proprietary as well as for Libre Software. Historically, Libre Software has suffered from a certain lack of well-organized documentation, which has somewhat limited its usefulness for new users.
That's why Centro Tempo Reale has hired Dave Phillips, the renowned author of "Linux Music and Sound", as chief technical writer for the AGNULA project. Dave is working on a set of tutorials for the various applications which are already or will become part of the AGNULA distributions, as well as on a `hands-on' tutorial which will guide the user throught the whole installation, set-up and production process using the AGNULA distributions.
