Re: Sony Vaio GRT Series.
From: Julian (bilbo_900_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 09/22/03
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Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 20:30:29 -0700
>
> Chris wrote:
>
>> I emailed the groups a little over a month ago. Here's the original
>> link:
>>
>> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=89b6b185.0307020544.160d923a%40posting.google.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fhl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DISO-8859-1%26q%3DSony%2BVaio%2BGRT%26btnG%3DGoogle%2BSearch%26meta%3Dgroup%253Dcomp.os.linux.networking
>>
>>
>> I wanted to give an update of what i've found (successes & failures)
>> and see if anybody has any similar experiences on failures. When I
>> get another free second I will post this information on
>> linux-on-laptops.com.
>>
>> My main concern was that the integrated pci wireless lan would not be
>> a clean install & work correctly. I got it to work ( i had to play
>> around with this since i'd never done it before), it took me a couple
>> tries and some research. I followed the following steps.
>>
>> Success: WLAN
>>
>> the mini-pci adapter is an intersil/harris prism2_pci. so i downloaded
>> the wlan-ng sources. First time through I f*d it up. In the
>> .Configure script I installed both the native and the other pci
>> drivers. That was a no go, so i had to start over and second time
>> through I just installed the native drivers. There are some other
>> steps that I had to correct (like moving over the .config from the src
>> tree) and other quickly fixable errors in compilation. I followed the
>> readme, after i installed the sources i picked up at
>>
>> modprobe prism2_pci
>> wland-ctl commands in the readme document
>>
>> I do not have it setup to receive dhcp yet ( manually hardcoding it
>> works fine for me right now ). I did not have to alter the /etc/wlan/
>> scripts at all it picked up my ssid fine.
>>
>> Success: DUAL BOOT.
>>
>> Luckily my laptop had two partitions already from sony, and winxp was
>> all on the first one, so i just whipped the second half during the
>> linux install. I used Redhat 9, and I did not experience any problems
>> during install.
>>
>> Success: DVD-R/CD-R.
>>
>> I have burnt a couple data CD's with out to much of a headache. Just
>> drop a blank disk in the drive and a Burner window pops right up.
>> Talking about awesome. Just like windows easy to use, but with a real
>> os.
>>
>> Success: FIREWIRE
>>
>> It says it is working properly, I haven't had a need to test it yet.
>>
>> Success: DISPLAY
>>
>> x is running without a problem the display is 1400x1050 i believe, I
>> am just using a generic laptop display. I couldn't find the specific
>> lcd screen. This suits my needs. and the display is still brilliant
>> on the 16in screen.
>>
>> Failure: SOUND
>>
>> This is pretty disappointing that this is not working, worst than that
>> if it attempts to make a sound it locks the os & and i have to turn it
>> off. i'm thinking this is an IRQ problem but haven't been able to
>> trace it any further than that ( and don't know what to look for ). I
>> found 1 other article on the web where someone has a sony and is
>> experiencing the same problem however, they have not fixed it either?
>> so anybody have any ideas what to do? even playing the sound
>> detection locks up the box.
>>
>> Failure: Battery Monitor
>>
>> I haven't had time to research this, but I do not see the power
>> battery monitor tool anywhere. On my Sony Vaio fx220 it was there
>> (redhat 7.2)? any ideas?
>>
>> Failure: USB
>>
>> On bootup I'm receiving a usb hci irq conflict error - I have no idea
>> what this is?? I can post a more exact error when I get in front of
>> the box, if someone would be interested in helping me resolve this?
>>
>>
>> Well I hope other people find my findings useful, and hopefully I will
>> be pointed in a resolvable direction for my outstanding failures.
>>
>> Thanks everyone,
>>
>> Chris
>
Julian wrote:
> I have almost the exact same laptop as you. I bought it about 3 weeks
> ago and I've been trying to get linux to work properly. From the sounds
> of it, I think we both might have different parts of the puzzle.
>
> My main source of difficulty is getting the PCMCIA to work properly. It
> loads properly in the base kernel the come with rh9 but I can't get it
> to detect my wireless card (Orinoco Gold 802.11b). Its supposed to use
> the wavelan_cs driver but it doesn't seem to work. I originally thought
> it used the orinoco_cs driver but not according to the PROXIM site.
>
> I fixed the usb and sound issues by going to a newer kernel. I've tried
> both the 2.4.21 and the 2.4.22 kernel. In both cases I was able to get
> the usb to work properly as well as the sound, but I have pcmcia
> problems. Since the CDROM somehow works through the same bus it stops
> working properly. I tried adding apic support to the kernel but that
> didn't help.
>
> I'm pretty sure that if you upgrade your kernel, you'll fix the sound
> and USB. The question is how to fix the PCMCIA. Any info as to your
> successes/failures and your methods would be much appreciated. I'm
> determined to getting rh9 working on this laptop. I know it can be done,
> I'm just not sure how exactly.
>
> Julian
So I'm still working on the same problem. I've been trying to get my
wireless card to work and that is taking a bit of effort. With the
2.4.22 kernel, I've resolved a lot of issues. I've got the PCMCIA
working properly. I fixed it by downloading and installing the pcmcia-cs
from Sourceforge. I've got USB and Sound working.
Current problems. I get no sound from audio CDs. I don't know why that
is. I would think that if the sound works and the cdrom works then I
should get the sound from it. I can play MP3s and other audio files so
I'm positive the sound works. I can mount and read data CDs so I know
the cdrom works. Anyone have this problem?
I also can't get the driver for my wireless card to work. Anyone have
any succes with the Proxim Orinoco Gold Card (8420-WD)? Its got an Agere
chipset. They've got drivers on their site that link in to the pcmcia-cs
package but whenever it detects the card, the driver fails. Modprobe
claims it was compiled by a version 2 compiler while my kernel was
compiled with a version 3. Makes no sense to me but if anyone has an
idea let me know.
I'll keep trying.
Julian
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