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IP 1000A ethernet driver Fedora 7

nospam@example.com (Jeremy Coates) — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:03:00 +0100

Discovered today that a previously working ethernet driver for the IP1000A chipset stopped working when upgrading to the latest Fedora 7 kernel (2.6.22.1-41). When compiling the driver there's now output indicating a problem:

ipg_main.c:4045: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘pci_module_init’

If you've installed or upgraded to Fedora 7 (or are running a 2.6.22+ kernel) along with an ethernet adapter using the IP1000A chipset (e.g. from /sbin/lspci getting something similar to "Sundance Technology / IC Plus Corp IP1000 Family Gigabit Ethernet" - running on an Abit motherboard here) and are using the drivers as found at http://www.icplus.com.tw/driver-pp-IP1000A.html (and this zip file in particular) then you'll need the following mod for the source code:
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Suspend / resume finally working Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

nospam@example.com (Jeremy Coates) — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 22:54:54 +0000

The day has finally come, my laptop finally suspends and resumes correctly under Fedora Core 6 - it's mostly got part way through the suspend operation before and then hung, or on the few occasions where it shutdown, it would hang or panic on resume.

Today using kernel 2.6.19-1.2911.6.5.fc6 it worked - suspend all the way to power off, and on resume even got the WiFi fired back up. The only one minor thing it didn't quite pull off was getting the attached usb hard drive back in action - a quick unplug and replug later and it's sorted.

This is quite cool, however I'm just in the middle of downloading another kernel update and I hope that keeps the progress made with suspend and resume on this laptop.

Yum upgrade FC4 to FC5 dbus session failure

nospam@example.com (Jeremy Coates) — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 10:35:10 +0100

Just solved an issue on a machine upgraded via yum from FC4 to FC5 tha had been bugging me for ages. The symptoms were that gnome power manager would fail with a message saying that dbus was not running and that eval `dbus-launch --auto-syntax` needed to be run.

The other symptom I noticed was that dbus-monitor or anything else that connected to dbus session would fail with a 'connection refused' message.

After trawling round the net, I found a Redhat Bugzilla posting that resolved the issue - between FC4 and FC5 the location of dbus-daemon had moved from /usr/bin to /bin (and also dbus-cleanup-sockets). The yum upgrade for the dbus packages had not removed the FC4 versions from /usr/bin so a quick rm /usr/bin/dbus-daemon and rm /usr/bin/dbus-cleanup-sockets followed by a reboot sorted the problem altogether.

Perhaps that should be added to the Yum upgrade FAQ on Fedora wiki. Another small but annoying problem resolved

Kernel Parameters after FC4 to FC5 upgrade (via yum) on an Acer Ferrari 4005WLMi

nospam@example.com (Jeremy Coates) — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:30:57 +0100

I recently decided to upgrade from Fedora Core 4 to Fedora Core 5 via yum upgrade. Everything seemed to go well, however there seemed to be a random machine lockup happening - I mean total freeze, had to power off to recover!

The machine in question is an Acer Ferrari 4005 WLMi (Acer 4000 series) laptop.

I tried several things, many hours of web searching, even looked in on #fedora on irc.freenode.net but nothing seemed to work until I re-read the the Gentoo wiki Kernel Configuration entry. Re-reading that prompted me to remove all the kernel parameters I'd used since FC4 on my machine, as the 2.6.16 kernel used in FC5 seems to have fixed all the problems that were seen on this laptop previously. It certainly cured the lock up problems!

FC4 kernel parameters that I'd used (as advised in various places on the net, including the gentoo wiki previously):

i8042.nomux noapic irqpoll acpi_irq_balance

Using those parameters on FC5 caused the machine hangs, so the gentoo forums saved the day, my machine is now stable again.

There's at least one other very nice by product of the FC5 upgrade - the new kernel allows the synaptics touch pad to operate properly. Under FC4, the touch pad missed some of the clicks from the mouse keys, this was really annoying especially when trying to drag thngs around as it would take several attempts to e.g. grab a window to move it. This seems to have been completely addressed now, no more ending up with emails in the wrong folders!