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Yesterday I received my Sony Vaio Pro 13.
The WLAN card is only supported since kernel 3.11, which has been released by Linus several days ago.
The laptop has no ethernet port, ideally I'd thus use the WLAN abilities using installation.
Since there is no Arch ISO available with 3.11 yet, I was hoping to create my own, using the arch wiki guide on remastering the ISO: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Re … nstall_ISO
I was wondering whether, instead of compiling my own kernel, I could just chroot into the unpacked ISO filesystem and install the 3.11 kernel from the testing repository using pacman.
Which, as far as I could tell, was the released kernel, and not an earlier RC. Is this possible?
One other question remains: the author of this blog mentions a diff that is needed to prevent the CPU freq to be stuck at 800Mhz (http://elouisyoung.blogspot.se/2013/07/ … -with.html).
Does anyone know whether this made it to the mainline?
# UPDATE
I explored the latest kernel release and found out that the patch is not yet included in the mainline.
So I'll have to compile my own kernel. There are however still issues with the CPU freq scaling (won't scale lower than 1.6Ghz). Nasty...
# UPDATE 2
Booting + installing mainline ISO, installed testing/linux for wifi, compiled own kernel + installed besides the testing/linux kernel worked fine for me.
Last edited by A.J.Rouvoet (2013-09-08 17:21:05)
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