[driverloader] Dell 5100 w/Truemobil 1300 card and SuSE 9.3

[Linuxant support (Jonathan)]

Hi,

support for the CONFIG_PREEMPT kernel option was greatly improved in 
DriverLoader 2.28 and is no longer a source of problems for most users.

The kernels of SuSE 9.3 are not compiled with this option enabled. You 
should be able to use the kernels of SuSE 9.3 without any modifications 
(recompilation or using another kernel) with DriverLoader.

Regards,


Jonathan
Technical specialist / Linuxant
www.linuxant.com
support at linuxant.com



Bob Talbot wrote:
> I am interested in Purchasing DriverLoader if it will work for my 
> configuration which is
> 
> Dell 5100 w/Truemobil 1300 card and SuSE 9.3
> 
> I read a March 17 2005 post from one of your customers and Jonathan’s 
> (TECH Support) reply
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> I have enclosed the thread Below.
> 
> My question is As I do not want to recompile a special kernel / Can I 
> disable or modify the CONFIG_PEEMPT option and if I do what other 
> functionality will be effected?
> 
>  Thank You, I want to install linux and a new laptop is not an option 
> but the WLAN card is essential.
> 
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> 
> Bob
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> **********************************************************************
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> Hi,
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> you could try with previous releases of the Windows XP driver to see if 
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> there is a difference. For example, you could try this one:
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> http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R74092us.EXE
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> Under Linux, you can use the 'unzip' command on the .EXE file to extract 
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> the Windows driver. The required .INF file will be named 
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> 'AR/bcmwl5a.inf' inside the .EXE file.
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> If it doesn't fix the problem, please make sure that your kernel was not 
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> compiled with the 'CONFIG_PREEMPT' option. If you kernel was compiled 
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> with this option, please disable it, re-compile your kernel and then 
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> re-compile the DriverLoader module with the 'dldrconfig -k' command in a 
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> root shell.
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> Regards,
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>  
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> Jonathan
> 
> Technical specialist / Linuxant
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> www.linuxant.com
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> support at linuxant.com <https://www.linuxant.com/mailman/listinfo/driverloader>
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> Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
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>>/ I have a Dell Inspiron 5150 with a TrueMobile 1300 MPCI 802.11b/g card/
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>>/ inside. I've used Driverloader with Dell's drivers successfully since/
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>>/ the 1.0x days./
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>>/ Today, though, I upgraded to Driverloader 2.26 and Windows driver/
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>>/ 3.100.35.1 (R94827), and I've been getting severe periodic system/
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>>/ lockups. They happen very randomly, sometimes after a while of usage,/
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>>/ sometimes as soon as during the boot process. Always it's a full system/
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>>/ lock, with no recovery other than a cold reboot./
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>>/ /
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>>/ It's definitely caused by Driverloader, though. I've removed all traces/
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>>/ of it from my system and am now using a wired connection, and everything/
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>>/ is fine. When I install 2.26 with the new drivers, the system/
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>>/ immediately locks and does so after every reboot in which Driverloader/
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>>/ is used./
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>>/ /
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>>/ I do have a wired connection here, so I'm willing to test various things/
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>>/ to help you guys figure this out. I can try different Driverloader/
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>>/ releases, different Windows driver releases, and different kernels, if/
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>>/ you wish./
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>>/ I'm using Gentoo with kernel 2.6.8-gentoo-r3 with your 16k stack patch/
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>>/ enabled./
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