I'm posting this again, hopefully with correct threading this time; sorry. [...]
>This is probably exhaustively written up somewhere - but I can't find a >concise source. Following advice on the Wiki for KDE and sound hasn't >helped. [Alsaconf/Kmix/alsamixergui all appear to work and the volume >icon sometimes comes up on the panel as "muted" but no sound at all :( [...] Check in Kmix under the "Switches" tab to see if you have "Headphone Jack Sense". This must be off for the internal speakers to work; maybe that's your problem (it happened to me!). >[...]I can't get a usable dhcp lease. >I've a feeling that avahi is intervening - the laptop always ends up >with a 169.* address - and I don't know enough about how to get it to >work. DHCP is being given out by a stock Linksys WRT54G which in turn is >fed from my cable modem. >Static IP for the ethernet in the laptop is working fine - I just don't >want to have to wire it the whole time. [...] Those 169.* addresses are avahi's fallback when DHCP isn't working...sounds like you're missing a piece of software; the easiest way if you use KDE is installing network-manager-kde which should pull in everthing you need for DHCP to work automatically. HTH, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
