Issues on my Dell Studio 1535 laptop

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AndrewT

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Iscritto: 12/28/2009

I have installed the OS from USB successfully on my laptop. I still have 3 major, very typical issues:

- No sound playback (I have on-board sound, HDA Intel - STAC92xx Analog to be precise)

- No wifi (I have a built-in wifi card, to be precise it's a Dell Wireless 1397 WLAN mini-card)

- No free software driver solution for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3400 video card (although this is probably unfixable, and I'll gladly live with it)

Any help is greatly appreciated.

in0giro
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Iscritto: 11/30/2009

On Dec 28, 2009, at 1:27 AM, name at domain wrote:

> I have installed the OS from USB successfully on my laptop. I still
> have 3 major, very typical issues:

i have some basic suggestions:

>
> - No sound playback (I have on-board sound, HDA Intel - STAC92xx
> Analog to be precise)

check your sound output, make sure nothing is muted and "Front" is
turned up. also, try headphones. this card i believe is well
supported.

>
> - No wifi (I have a built-in wifi card, to be precise it's a Dell
> Wireless 1397 WLAN mini-card)

find out what the card's chipset is and then search the gNewSens and
Triqsuel sites for someone else using the chipset. a good place to
start is http://wireless.kernel.org/

>
> - No free software driver solution for my ATI Mobility Radeon HD
> 3400 video card (although this is probably unfixable, and I'll
> gladly live with it)

sorry, no experience with this.

hope this helps.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
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AndrewT

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Iscritto: 12/28/2009

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. :)

AndrewT

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Iscritto: 12/28/2009

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?

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?

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

quiliro
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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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AndrewT

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Iscritto: 12/28/2009

Ok, I have installed the 2.6.30-7 libre kernel you linked to and worked it into GRUB. That was easy enough. But wifi still doesn't work. :( A few minutes ago, I installed wifi-radar, and ran it in the terminal as root. It gave me the message: "No wifi-device found. Exiting." That lets me know that my built-in wifi card simply isn't getting recognized, even with the Athk9 free driver. I guess this means I will have to buy a separate card if I want to get wireless connections?

I'm going to take the package updating issue into another forum thread.

In the future, I will keep issues separate for the benefit of other users. :)