[ltp] R40 Wireless

[Tony Whitmore]

kutch ariola wrote:
> I have a ThinkPad-R40 - 2722 on Mandrake 9.2 and Macrosoft Mindows XP 
> Non-Pro (hihihihi)

OK, I have a ThinkPad R40 2722-CDG. I hope I can help.

> Can any one give suggestion on how can I use my 802.11 b Wireless 
> because unlike on Macrosoft I will just start my wirelss Fn+ F5, but in 
> Mandrake it seems there is no option to start the wirelss...

I can recommend the ndiswrapper project. I have used this in conjunction 
with my R40 and the drivers from the Asus website (linked from the 
webpage). http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ It might be worth noting 
that I am using Debian with a hand-rolled kernel. You may have a little 
more trouble if you are using a Mandrake kernel.

> and in Addition does someone tried already to play a DVD on Mandrake 9.2 
> coz I tried to play my DVD which I bought it from Germany but it seems 
> an Error occured "ENCRYPTION Blah blah blah" does anyone encounterd this 
> stuff, and does any one has a solution for this...

It may be that Mandrake hasn't included the de-CSS libraries for legal 
reasons. Now that CSS has been declared as no longer a trade secret, 
this shouldn't be the case in future versions. If you have not played a 
DVD under Windows, then the region firmware on your DVD drive will not 
have been set. This can interfere with playback of some DVDs that will 
not play on an RPC-II drive with no region set. You can probably find 
some RPC-1 firmware for the drive at www.rpc1.org. This will enable you 
to play DVDs from other regions under both Windows and Linux. (The 
flasher utility is Windows only, usually.)

HTH,

Tony