Re: New laptop - problems with linux

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 09:41 -0500, Stephen Clark wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> I just purchased a VBI-Asus S96F laptop Intel 945GM &  ICH7, with a Core 
> 2 Duo T560,0 2gb pc5400 memory.
>  From checking around it appeared all the
> hardware was well supported by linux - but I am having major problems.
> 
> 
> 1. neither the wireless lan Intel pro 3945ABG or built in ethernet 

you can get the driver for this from ipw3945.sf.net

> RTL-8169C are detected and configured
> 2. the disk which is a 7200rpm Hitachi travelmate transfers data at 1.xx 
> mb/sec
>     according to hdparm. This same drive in my old laptop an HP n5430 with a
>     850 duron the rate was 12-14 mb/sec.

it seems you're using your sata disk in legacy IDE compatibility mode,
and not AHCI mode... usually there is a bios setting to switch this
(but be careful, if you switch it without adding the ahci driver to your
initrd your system won't boot)




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