[ltp] help with wireless/sound on R50

[Richard Harding]

Didrik Pinte wrote:

>Le mer 02/06/2004 à 16:03, rick a écrit :
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>>I just managed to get Debian unstable up and running. Things are going great 
>>except I don't have sound and I want to get wireless up and running. It has 
>>the built in centrino so I am trying to get the ipw2100 up and running. I 
>>have never used wireless in linux and I am getting a bit confused as I don't 
>>know how this should be working. 
>>
>>System Info:
>>Debian unstable with kernel 2.6.6-1-686 package 
>>
>>1) Sound: does anyone have a quick how-to on getting sound up and running? I 
>>can't find any details of a working R50 in linux-laptop.net. Most of the 
>>laptops in there seem to have sound working out of the box. I did have 
>>Mandrake 10 on here for a day and it did have working sound, but of course I 
>>didn't check it out before I blew it away. 
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>For my part, i've hard compiled alsa in the kernel. I've attache my
> .config file to the mail (its a 2.6.5-4 Debian/Sid kernel).
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Thanks a ton for the config file. I built the kernel, but I am having a 
kernel panic on booting to it. Below is all the info I can think of. I 
copied most of the info from the existing kernel I am using right now, 
which is the Debian package for 2.6.6

If you have any ideas I would appreciate it.

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boot error:

NET: Registered Protocol Family 2

IP: routeing cache hash table 8192 buckets, 64kbytes

NET: Registered Protocal Family 8

NET: Registered Protocal Family 20

speedstep centrino: found “Intel......max frequency 1600000”

Kernel Panic: VFS: Unable to mount fs on hda4


TechieIBM:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6# df

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on

/dev/hda4 13333632 1614724 11718908 13% /

tmpfs 388364 0 388364 0% /dev/shm

/dev/hda3 91619 14312 72419 17% /boot


/boot folder

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 548511 Apr 14 13:39 System.map-2.4.25-1-386

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 802220 May 12 07:30 System.map-2.6.6-1-686

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 880925 Jun 3 07:58 System.map-2.6.6-R50

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1708097 Jun 3 07:58 bzimage-2.6.6-R50

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44109 Apr 14 05:36 config-2.4.25-1-386

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 52718 May 12 00:45 config-2.6.6-1-686

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jun 2 07:58 grub

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3825664 Jun 1 04:26 initrd.img-2.4.25-1-386

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4583424 Jun 2 07:57 initrd.img-2.6.6-1-686

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Jun 1 04:23 lost+found

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 808860 Apr 14 13:39 vmlinuz-2.4.25-1-386

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1129935 May 12 07:30 vmlinuz-2.6.6-1-686


menu.lst – (top is custom, bottom is the current kernel I boot into 
right now)

title Debian 2.6.6 R50 Custom

root (hd0,2)

kernel /bzimage-2.6.6-R50 root=/dev/hda4 ro

savedefault

boot


title Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.6-1-686

root (hd0,2)

kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.6-1-686 root=/dev/hda4 ro

initrd /initrd.img-2.6.6-1-686

savedefault

boot


TechieIBM:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.6# fdisk -l


Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40007761920 bytes

16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77520 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes


Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/hda1 * 1 48765 24577528+ 7 HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2 48766 50850 1050840 82 Linux swap

/dev/hda3 50851 51044 97776 83 Linux

/dev/hda4 51045 77520 13343904 83 Linux