<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:25 PM, Mike Perkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk">mikep@randomtraveller.org.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 01/06/11 12:43, David Cushing wrote:<br>
> It's 64 bit OS.<br>
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> According to dmesg the driver for the card is unable to tell which card it<br>
> is... which is strange, as it was working before.<br>
> When I try and recompile/reinstall the driver, I get error messages saying<br>
> it can't find files it needs, yet I have my kernel sources installed and am<br>
> following instructions to the letter.<br>
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Your missing files... does your card need firmware files?<br>
<br><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It does - but as I say, it was working before... and now it's not!</div><div>When I tried re-compiling/installing - it failed.</div><div><br></div><div>Having said all that, the system then got into a state where it would not boot at all.</div>
<div>Given that I had also been unable to get the touch-screen on my case to work (it too mysteriously stopped working a while back, having worked just fine previously), and it had started refusing to resume from suspend-to-ram, I decided that rather than try and fix all of these little strange oddities, I would start afresh - with a different distro :)</div>
<div><br></div><div>So I installed Fedora yesterday. Which has the benefit of being "supported" (ahem) by my oldest friend, who has - to his chagrin - been giving me computer support in areas that have befuddled me since we were at school together. :) </div>
<div>Now I just need to convince him to pop by for "dinner". ;)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers guys</div><div><br>D. </div></div><br>