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Re: acpi and wlan on SL4
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Jaroslaw Polok <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:42:22 +0100
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Hi.

michal wlasenko wrote:
> hi,
> 
> it's a short description of adventures with installing linux on acer
> travelmate 4102

[..]

> still to do: acpi and wlan. in principle, so you guys know how to
> activate both of them for red hat enterprise, fedora or SL4 ?

Isnt the WiFi the Intel Pro 2200 BG ?
In such case just run system-config-network , it shall
see your card.

As for ACPI you may be out of luck with SL: TUV(*)
considers ACPI support (especially on laptops) to be
not stable enough and SL kernels have only some subset
of ACPI implemented (mostly IRQ routing etc ..)

Cheers

Jarek

* TUV = The Upstream Vendor

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