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somazero
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Location: Geilenkirchen, Germany
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 Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2003 9:54 am Post subject: Song Vaio PCG-GRT170 - Working! |
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Greetings! I just thought I'd share my experience eith my new laptop and Gentoo.
1. In order to get sound to work and for the usb 2 modules to atleast load, I had to use kernel version 2.6.0-test2...other development kernels may work, but that's the first that I tried. Sound works very well, but since I don't have any usb 2 hardware - I can't confirm that it's functional.
2. Networking was a little unique as well. I had to patch (well, I just changed the actual file...I didn't patch it) orinoco_pci.c. Here's the patch file that I used to change the code in the file...
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--- linux-2.4.20/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.c.orig 2003-05-21 11:40:59.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.4.20/drivers/net/wireless/orinoco_pci.c 2003-05-21 11:41:52.000000000 -0400
@@ -359,6 +359,7 @@
}
static struct pci_device_id orinoco_pci_pci_id_table[] __devinitdata = {
+ {0x1260, 0x3872, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,},
{0x1260, 0x3873, PCI_ANY_ID, PCI_ANY_ID,},
{0,},
}
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I didn't write the patch, and I don't remember the author. I apologize to whom ever it is! I found it after quite a while of google'ing
Basically, you just add that extra line to the struct and wireless works great! I did have to place orinoco_pci in the modules.autoload file though. The same with sis900, which get's ethernet going.
I haven't testing dvd burning yet...Not really a big thing right now...however, I will post my results/solutions when available.
Hope this is somewhat helpful... [/code] |
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pilla
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Moved to Documentation, Tips & Tricks.
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somazero
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| Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2003 11:44 am Post subject: |
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Okay, I'm on crack...
I was messing around with some other kernels...2.4.22-pre10. I enabled ACPI and everything worked as it had in 2.6.0-test2.
Sound and usb2 work just as they had in the development kernel.
I seems that the ACPI was the key kernel option.
As for the wireless patch, that is still needed.
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