After upgrading my laptop to 2.6.15.1 kernel, hibernation worked flawlessly. Running my previous version of kernel – 2.6.14.2, I have had some hibernation instabilities. I’ve had some memory corruptions here and there, which would have required I reboot the machine. So far, and it’s been a while, I’m glad to say I had no reason…
Weird behavior of my Orinoco_pci wireless network interface. On my home 802.11b network, I get performance of about 600KB/s, instead of 1.1MB/s, which should be the approximate speed to expect to. Not only that, but browsing to external websites and the likes (I compare using wget), I get speeds of <7KB/s, and sometimes decreasing to…
I’ve been working, on and off, on an update to my Linux kernel, for the last few weeks. I’ve tried my best with 2.6.12.1 to 2.6.12.5, and although it was compiled correctly, it failed to boot. I don’t know why, but this same problem occurred on my desktop PC as well. Yesterday, finally, I was…
Well, I have a laptop for the last 2 years or so, which can be noted for its very light-weight and enhanced setup (it comes with full equipment – DVD-CDR combo, 802.11b, 1xPCMCIA, 2xUSB2.0, 1xFireWire, S-Video, VGA Out, Lan, Modem, etc), for only 3.2 lbs, or ~1.5Kg. However it has its disadvantages – the weak…
