From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account lgrosenthal HELO [192.168.100.23]) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPSA id 2360393 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:43:12 -0400 Message-ID: <49BAB741.3050809@2rosenthals.com> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:42:57 -0400 Organization: Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081212 MultiZilla/1.8.3.5g SeaMonkey/1.1.14 (PmW) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Re: Laptop supported? References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 03/13/09 11:23 am, Ray Davison thus wrote : > Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > >>> GenMac works with Rtl 8168. >> Are you saying that if you configure GenMAC for an RTL8168 that it >> effectively drives the 8111C? > > I did not "configure" anything. GenMac did that on it's own. I am > not real surprised at the result. The Win driver reports as 8168/8111. > The supported hardware list for GenMAC needs to be updated to reflect that, then. >>> AC97 works. >>> >> ALC888 is HDA, not AC97. Are you saying that somehow an AC97 driver >> works for the onboard ALC888 codec? > > I was not really concerned with audio and not paying attention at that > point during install. I just selected the first item from force of > habit. I noticed it had AC97 as always. However, a closer look shows > it now also has HDA. This was RC6. HDA was the second selection in RC5. > That makes sense. Thanks for the clarification. >> Great news! The Centrino 2 is essentially a Core 2 Duo. > > And this machine apparently has the upper end of the family. > Nice. >> Do you have both cores running under ACPI with /SMP /APIC? > > I'll get back with you on that. First, the subject is mostly above my > pay grade. Plus I made a mess and started over. But I did have SMP > and whatever ACPI it suggested. > Likely APIC. I'll be curious to know. Thanks for following up, Ray. -- Lewis ------------------------------------------------------------- Lewis G Rosenthal, CNA, CLP, CLE Rosenthal & Rosenthal, LLC www.2rosenthals.com Need a managed Wi-Fi hotspot? www.hautspot.com Treasurer, Warpstock Corporation www.warpstock.org -------------------------------------------------------------