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Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback


From: Frederique W. Piccart
Subject: Re: [Gnewsense-dev] 2.6.31.6 kernel feedback
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 14:32:48 +0000
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On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:42:14 +0800, Wu Zhangjin <address@hidden>
wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 09:30 +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 21:29 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
>> > Frederique W. Piccart schreef:
>> > > Compared to the previous kernel that had been put up a week or two
>> > > ago,
>> > > nothing much changed for me, wireless got worse.
>> > > 
>> > > It seems, regardless if you press Fn + F5 at boot or not, that
radio
>> > > will
>> > > always be off at the beginning. Shortly after this there is a 40 -
50
>> > > second DHCP timeout procedure, which afterwards, the kernel will
>> > > enable
>> > > wireless, but doesn't bother to connect to the Internet.
>> > 
>> > Wifi isn't working at all for me with 2.6.31.6. lsmod shows rtl8187b 
>> > instead of r8187.
> 
> rtl8187b is the wifi driver(r8187) optimized for yeeloong netbook, it
> has been managed as a standalone module outside of the kernel, I have
> merged into 2.6.29 and the later versions to make it be easier to
> maintain and also make users config it directly when compiling kernel.
> 
>>  No amount of pressing Fn+F5 activates the LED nor a 
>> > wifi connection. dmesg shows this a few times:
>> >
> 
> And also, if no yeeloong_laptop module existed, you can also enable it
> via /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0/state, that is a standard interface
> provided by the rfkill subsystem. 
> 
> Regards,
>       Wu Zhangjin
> 
> 
> 
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I was also wondering if the audio configuration to enable software mixing
could some how end up by default on Yeeloong systems when installing
gNewSense.




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