Tag: driver

Sound recording problem in acer aspire 5745 laptop

if the output of   cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec on your machine is this :
Codec: Realtek ALC269
Codec: Intel G45 DEVIBX

(Solution Courtesy @nsisodiya)

following modules are present.
ALC269
======
  basic                Basic preset
  quanta        Quanta FL1
  eeepc-p703        ASUS Eeepc P703 P900A
  eeepc-p901        ASUS Eeepc P901 S101
  fujitsu        FSC Amilo
  lifebook        Fujitsu Lifebook S6420
  auto                auto-config reading BIOS (default)
It do not list acer laptop but auto should word which is default and not working
so
try something like
modprobe -r snd-hda-intel
modprobe snd-hda-intel model=basic

Or model=eeepc-p901 etc

Broadcom driver for Linux

If the lspci command on your computer give the following configuration for your Network Controller :

02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Then to get the wireless up on your system follow these steps :

for Debian (Easy Way)

1.Install the following package for your Debian distribution : firmware-brcm80211_0.27_all.deb

for Debian (Long way)

1.Install Module Assistant , broadcom-sta-common_5.60.48.36-2_all.deb ,broadcom-sta-source.

2.Run the module-assistant from the command select the broadcom driver and then do get , build and install sequentially .

for Fedora

1. Install the following packages

broadcom-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.noarch.rpm
kmod-wl-[uname -r]-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.5.i686.rpm
kmod-wl-5.60.48.36-1.fc13.5.i686.rpm

2.Do system-config-network and probe new hardware accepting all the default options

Reboot and enjoy.