Geek Sheet: A Tweaker's Guide to Solid State Drives (SSDs) and Linux. Editor's note: this post was originally published in July of 2008.
It's been updated with current information. Is 20th century conventional Winchester multi-platter, multi-head random-access disk technology too quaint for you? Want to run your PC or server on storage devices that consume far less energy than the traditional alternatives? Want a portable or mobile storage unit that will never fail due to G-forces or "crashing? ". Looking for a highly reliable and fast random access storage medium to use for your most important data?
Right now, the cost of using 2.5" SATA SSDs as exclusive primary storage devices is rather high. For the most part, they've been relegated to executive-class ultra power-miserly and ultra-thin notebooks like the Macbook Air and other high-end business class notebooks running on Windows. At their $2 per GB price point, unless you are really rolling in cash, you probably don't want to be stuffing these with anything less than mission-critical data.
Atheros 5xxx. From Gentoo Linux Wiki Introduction The Atheros 5xxx is a wireless chipset usually found in laptops.
There are three ways of getting your wireless card working: ath5k is a completely FOSS wireless driver for Atheros WLAN based chipsets. See also Atheros Ath5k Wireless Access Point . Driver Support Please add your devices below. Kernel Options (All installs) If you intend to use the ath5k driver (Atheros 5xxx wireless cards support), you should configure your Kernel with the following options: ath5k kernel driver The ath5k kernel module (shown unselected in the kernel configuration above) supports many Atheros chipsets.
Refer to kernel patch below to add AR242x / AR542x [168c:001c] LED support (it is tested with Thinkpad X61 Lenovo, linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3) File: ath5kled-patch Use command from linux source folder to apply the patch: patch -p0 < ath5kled-patch MadWifi The MadWifi drivers provide support for a wide range of Atheros devices, including some of the 5xxx range. Ndiswrapper. Linux Kernel Driver Database: CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS: ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras (DEPRECATED) Navigation: Linux Kernel Driver DataBase - web LKDDB: Main index - A index @import url( General informations The Linux kernel configuration item CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS has multiple definitions: found in drivers/platform/x86/Kconfig The configuration item CONFIG_ACPI_ASUS: prompt: ASUS/Medion Laptop Extras (DEPRECATED)type: tristatedepends on: CONFIG_ACPIdefined in drivers/platform/x86/Kconfigfound in Linux kernels: 2.6.31–2.6.39, 3.0–3.3modules built: asus_acpi, asus_acpi Help text This driver provides support for extra features of ACPI-compatible ASUS laptops.
Note: display switching code is currently considered EXPERIMENTAL, toying with these values may even lock your machine. All settings are changed via /proc/acpi/asus directory entries. More information and a userspace daemon for handling the extra buttons at If you have an ACPI-compatible ASUS laptop, say Y or M here. NOTE: This driver is deprecated and will probably be removed soon, use asus-laptop instead. found in drivers/acpi/Kconfig Hardware.