Centrino wireless (Dell D600)

joeclifton at bellsouth.net joeclifton at bellsouth.net
Tue May 25 16:05:47 UTC 2004


Maybe I missed part of this thread..sorry if I did.

Does anyone out there get the Centrino wireless working on the D600 under FC2?  If so, how?  
Thanks in advance!

Joe
> 
> From: Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>
> Date: 2004/05/25 Tue AM 11:54:52 EDT
> To: For users of Fedora Core releases <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: Centrino wireless (Dell D600)
> 
> On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:40, Clifford Snow wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 10:13, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > <snio>
> > > I've got hibernation to work on mine.
> > > it's successful 99%of the time.
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > Can you share your secret for hibernation?
> 
> Take 4 sleeping Pills and Drink lots of water. To avoid wakeups in the
> middle, make sure you empty your bladder :-)
> 
> Anyway, there's no real secret, I run a 2.6 kernel (was also working in
> 2.4 kernel)
> 
> with NO swsusp or pmdisk patches, I use whatever is in the kernel.bz
> file.
> 
> I run this thing to handle the suspend. I guess that's it.
> 
> One other thing, if you run suspend, chances are you'll have to live
> without 3d Acceleration.
> 
> If you can live with it.. Then........
> 
> ------->8-------------------
> 
>         if ($first_arg =~ /^button\/sleep$/) {
>                 shift (@ARGV);
>                 shift (@ARGV);
>                 if (check_ignore ('/etc/acpi/flags/suspend')) {
>                         clear_ignore ('/etc/acpi/flags/suspend');
>                 } else {
>                         set_ignore ('/etc/acpi/flags/suspend');
>                         system ('/usr/X11R6/bin/xset -display :0 dpms force off');
>                         system ('rmmod tg3');
>                         system ('rmmod usb_storage hid uhci_hcd ehci_hcd');
>                         system ('echo 4 > /proc/acpi/sleep && hwclock --hctosys');
>                         system ('echo "Resuming proceses....');
>                         system ('modprobe tg3');
>                         system ('modprobe usb_storage');
>                         system ('modprobe ehci_hcd');
>                         system ('modprobe uhci_hcd');
>                 }       system ('modprobe hid');
> 
> ----------------->8---------------------
> 
> 
> ps : This is just a snippet of the acpi handle file. If you want the full version, 
> drop me a mail off-line
> 
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