Re: help with acpi plz?

On Sat, 17 Nov 2007 08:26:57 -0800, Michael Perry wrote:

I dont know how I would test this to see if wlan and sound really dosent
work with
acpi=off because with mine acpi=off or not i have no sound or wlan both ways
I dont know if i need a driver or not or how to get them working?

You need to find out what drivers both use. Some wifi drivers just
don't work with Linux and you need to add something like ndiswrapper.

Ndiswrapper can have collisions with ACPI (reported in comments) and I
have one machine that will only run ndiswrapper correctly when ACPI is
forced off.
.

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