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#1 2009-08-23 10:52:11

TomWitko
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Solved Need help putting napic into boot parameters for dell xps 1530

From the Arch Wiki dell xps 1530 entry

    *  Wi-fi: 

Works out of the box with current kernel. With the 2007.8-2 ISO you need the iwlwifi-4965 package.
On some models you need to add "noapic" to kernel boot parameters.

K I want to try the noapic entry in the boot parameters but have not played with this before so need to figure out what file to but it in and where.
Another important question is what does noapic do.

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#2 2009-08-23 11:04:43

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Re: Solved Need help putting napic into boot parameters for dell xps 1530

Ok, noapic disables the use of the IO-APIC for the distribution of interrupts.

Here is some related info on that topic:
http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/debug.php (mainly acpi related)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_APIC_Architecture

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#3 2009-08-23 11:31:02

TomWitko
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Re: Solved Need help putting napic into boot parameters for dell xps 1530

This does sound like the problem I am having with wireless so might try it later. The hardware is seen as there its just not working.


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