Can connect to WPA network, but not to open network: BCM4312 card w/ b43 driver

I seem to be unable to successfully be able to connect to an open access point, although connecting to a WPA network (through wicd frontend) works. I am running the latest squeeze, with kernel 2.6.32-5-686. My machine is a Dell Mini 10v. My card is a Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g LP-PHY

EXA working with Radeon RV350, but text-rendering very slow?

After a recent upgrade of Xorg, I am finally successfully running XFCE with compositing working great with my Mobility Radeon RV350. Switched to EXA and that is working beautifully and I'm finally running with render acceleration. Found xorg is using about half the CPU that it was using with EXA di

hyperthreading not working (?)... /proc/cpuinfo shows 2 cpus

HI I have just spent hours trying to figure this out, through google but no luck. I have a single pentium 4 w/ hyperthreading and am running kernel 2.6.13. I built my own kernel and enabled HT and the system seems to recognize two processors. Here is /proc/cpuinfo: /--\ proces

"superblock last write time is in the future" on boot

Hello, After upgrading my system to 'testing', on bootup I am getting the error above after "checking root filesystem..."; it then forces a reboot and fsck on the next boot. According to the Debian changelog for the e2fsprogs package, the newest version checks for this, so I don't know whether e2f