[CS-FSLUG] Locked Up Laptop - Can't Reboot

[Alan Marsh]

Don,

Could you give us some more details... like the make and model of the
card, the distro you are running and what you used for a driver?

I have a HP zv6170us laptop running Gentoo (64 bit) (dual boot with XP Pro
due to Windows only BIOS updates and other nonsense from HP) and it has an
internal broadcomm card that I have not yet setup with ndiswrapper... but
part of me would just like to buy a nic card that just works out of the
box...

I was sidelined from working on that while I built a new desktop machine
to replace the old one which I sold to a client who needed a machine in an
emergency.

Thanks!

> On 3/31/06, Tim Young <Tim.Young at lightsys.org> wrote:
>> The standard thing to reboot a laptop is to hold down the power button
>> for 10 seconds.
>>
>> - Tim Young
>>
>
> Thanks, I'll have to try that.  I honestly didn't know - this is my
> first laptop, and I haven't had to perform a hard reboot before.
> Anyway, I got the wireless NIC working now.  I am wire-free!  Woohoo!
> (Don jumps up and down and dances around after successfully getting
> wireless up and running without asking anyone for help.)
>
> The celebration would make a great deal of sense if you knew it took 4
> days to get the router to obtain an IP address from the cable modem
> because I didn't let it sit un-plugged for @ 7 minutes (required if
> your cable modem also provides digital phone connection).  After
> geting the router working, I had difficulty with the security key
> setting.  I settled on WEP for now, but even though I had tried to
> change the key, it didn't seem to take.  Every time brought up the
> wlan interface, it kept using the original key.  So I went into the
> interfaces file and edited the entry by hand.  That worked.
>
> Don
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