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Tried to revive an older PC to run stuff for the lad. Stuck an ACX 111 Wifi card in, seems the latest driver for it was removed from Debian (acx100-source version 20080210-1.2) but this version doesn't seem to be in the Debian archive anywhere, eventually found a copy linked in a Debian bug report saying it had disappeared, found it hang the PC with the latest stable kernel in Debian Squeeze. ndiswrapper seemed to work till midnight, when my ADSL line went down. Since it was spot on midnight I assume some sort of BT maintenance. Tried to install Adobe Flash, but Iceweasel falls over "Illegal Instruction". Opinion in the net seems to think this is running it on a Sempron 2300+ CPU, as it uses SSE2 instructions. I didn't hang around to check. On uninstalling Adobe Flash, the website I was trying to view worked briefly, and "top" showed "gtk-gnash" eating 95% CPU. But as per usual with Gnash I couldn't decipher how to run it in the browser, except in this case I could reliably run it by uninstalling Adobe Flash whilst the browser was open, but immediate restarting the browser - nothing. Tried Google Chrome (don't ask why) it just hangs when you try and start it, I assume CPU choice again. So I suspect an otherwise working PC, with 512GB of RAM, a PCI 802.11G card, is not going to hack it because of lack of support for the AMD processor. Anyone know if it would work better running XP. Anyone know for sure if this is typical of Sempron under Linux. I guess this is why we want free software, it runs GNOME and Debian applications just fine (with the exception of Gnash). Perhaps I should keep this PC, and give Isaac mine, which just manages to run the Flash games he likes. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq