Hi Vaibhav,

On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:22:54PM -0700, Vaibhav Vaidya wrote:
> Sorry for the earlier mail.
>  
> The dmesg started working on next bootup. The wireless also started
> working, after I put the firmware in /lib/firmware besides
> /etc/firmware.

Are you sure you used ATrpms' firmware packages? They do install the
firmware under /lib/firmware, as well as symlinks under /etc/firmware and
/usr/lib/hotplug/firmware (different distributions use
different mechanisms/locations).
>  
> The bootup eth0 seek takes a long time. If I disable it, since I'm
> usually on wireless, then haldaemon hangs on every alternate boot
> up. This is quirky, but I heard a similar thing happens to another
> linux-dell user...

>  
> Thanks,
> 
> Vaibhav Vaidya <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Thanks for all the information...
> 
> > If you add the "ATA passthru" patch (from Jeff Garzik) to your kernel, then
> > hdparm can work with those drives."
> Does this mean I have to recompile the kernel with the patch? That is a
> little beyond my level of expertise currently... hope it will be
> incorporated into a newer kernel release soon.
> 
> I was having a lot of problems and thus reinstalled SL 4.0. That's when I
> realised it had not done some of the post-install config on my first try
> (I'd got some error about the install image file). Now it's much better.
> Dislpay is not corrupted, runlevel 5 gives graphical boot screen... all
> which didnt happen before.
> 
> Except now my wireless card doesnt work. This is a problem I will try to fix
> (I've tried RPMS from ATRPMS, and source files from sourceforge for ipw2200,
> put the firmware in the proper place, loaded the ieee crypto modules, made
> sure the driver and firmware versions match, but the module cant load the
> firmware at startup due to some reason).
> 
> I used to keep checking what the module did at boot up using dmesg... The
> main problem now is that suddenly my dmesg doesnt give even a line of
> output... just nothing... caused some panic for me...
> that's kind of hard to google... what do I check?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
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