Permanent additional options in GRUB

Hi folks!

On my old desktop-pc I always have to add the boot option

acpi=force

.
In issue 14 of the Full Circle Magazine there is mentioned, that you can add this option in the file menu.lst in /boot/grub at the line

# defoptions

and with each new generation of this file the option will be automatically included in the boot-option.
menu.lst is the file which contains the configuration of the boot menu.

Till next time,
docnic

WLan on Acer Aspire 5020 (BCM 4318) and Ubuntu 8.04

Hello again!

After the update from Ubuntu Gutsy to Hardy, Update of the kernel and deleting of the old kernel, wlan wasn't working. From posts in some forums I saw, that acer-acpi is now enclosed in the kernel AND got backported to the actual Hardy-kernel.
In addition to the normal kernel I installed the "backports"-package.
In order to get wlan working I had to open a konsole and

sudo modprobe acer_acpi wireless=1

and

sudo echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer_acpi/wireless

.

cat /proc/acpi/acer/wireless

should give you a 1.
On my system after reboot, wlan is starting automatically now.

Hope, this helps!

cya!