rpn
June 27th, 2009, 01:04 AM
Warning - AMD64 install creates problems, especially with Skype. You must also run the liveCD or install with the noapic & nolapic options or it simply won't start at all so you loose battery management options.
First the good news.
Quick searches here deliver results that work for SIS graphics and no microphone input. For the price a decent enough machine (not mine, setting it up for someone else).No 3D graphics but given SIS's lamentable support for Linux no surprise there and not an issue for the charity.
The remaining problem is the wireless, rtl8187. A search indicates this is not giving other people problems with 9.04 but it is for me. Reception is poor but I can get it to connect with the Dlink AP and it gets valid network settings by DHCP via it. However it will not browse the local network or the internet. Other machines work fine via the AP. Using a wired connection works fine also with DHCP albeit from a different subnet (don't ask:) but it works with everything else (linux/windows/mac).
Can anyone please shed some light on this? Not a deal breaker just now for the charity involved (they really only occasionally use my AP) but I'd like to have it work properly (their switch is fully loaded so is wifi or disconnect another machine/printer first).
Oh and Filezilla for some reason won't install (only matters in that it is what relatively computer illiterate users have got used to from me); both i386 and amd64 installs just give a 'not supported message' for some reason that baffles me having installed it fine on other i386 install machines.
Richard
First the good news.
Quick searches here deliver results that work for SIS graphics and no microphone input. For the price a decent enough machine (not mine, setting it up for someone else).No 3D graphics but given SIS's lamentable support for Linux no surprise there and not an issue for the charity.
The remaining problem is the wireless, rtl8187. A search indicates this is not giving other people problems with 9.04 but it is for me. Reception is poor but I can get it to connect with the Dlink AP and it gets valid network settings by DHCP via it. However it will not browse the local network or the internet. Other machines work fine via the AP. Using a wired connection works fine also with DHCP albeit from a different subnet (don't ask:) but it works with everything else (linux/windows/mac).
Can anyone please shed some light on this? Not a deal breaker just now for the charity involved (they really only occasionally use my AP) but I'd like to have it work properly (their switch is fully loaded so is wifi or disconnect another machine/printer first).
Oh and Filezilla for some reason won't install (only matters in that it is what relatively computer illiterate users have got used to from me); both i386 and amd64 installs just give a 'not supported message' for some reason that baffles me having installed it fine on other i386 install machines.
Richard