Issues on my Dell Studio 1535 laptop

Sound works now, flawlessly, with headphones both plugged in or out. For some reason it just wasn't functioning on the first boot after the OS was installed.

I'm going to do a bit more internet research on my wireless card, so I'll shoot back on that subject soon.

One question for anyone that uses IceCat, which I have installed from a source package: does IceCat automatically update versions (and addons) like FireFox, or do I have to do something in the "Software Sources" utility, and if so, what do I do? Sorry, all the time that's gone by since I was an Ubuntu user has made me rusty. :)

2009/12/29 <name at domain>

> Ok, apparently, more recent versions of the kernel have a driver called
> Athk9 that enables widespread wi-fi support. Do I just need to wait for the
> next release in January for my wireless card to (hopefully) become
> functional?
>

http://aligunduz.org/gNewSense/

>
> Another issue: I get the following message when I try to update my packages
> in the update manager or in Synaptic:
>
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/dists/dwyn/Release Unable to
> find expected entry universe/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file
> (malformed Release file?)
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/dists/dwyn-updates/Release Unable to find expected entry universe/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index
> file (malformed Release file?)
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/dists/dwyn-security/Release Unable to find expected entry universe/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index
> file (malformed Release file?)
> Failed to fetch
> http://us.archive.trisquel.info/trisquel/dists/dwyn-backports/Release Unable to find expected entry universe/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index
> file (malformed Release file?)
> Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones
> used instead.
>
> What am I getting this error message for, and how do I fix it?
>
> Bad conectivity. I do not get that error. Of course it might be because I
am suing another server:
ec.archive.gnewsense.org

But no, they are the same host:
fernando@servidor:~$ host ec.archive.gnewsense.org
ec.archive.gnewsense.org is an alias for us.archive.gnewsense.org.
us.archive.gnewsense.org has address 140.186.70.35
fernando@servidor:~$

> If you know of any answers to these questions, please don't hesitate. :)
>

Please make a separate post and a descriptive subject for each inquiry next
time so many people can benefit from them. Thank you. :-)
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