Drivers on iniy.org

Lenovo E540 Standby Problem on Ubuntu 14.04

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 00:03:58 +0000

UPDATE: Lenovo fixed the Bios, after a bios update standby + USB 3.0 enabled work. I used the geteltorito.pl-method descriped in the thinkwiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/BIOS_Upgrade

I was furious about a very annoying standby problem my new Lenovo Laptop had. When closing the lid or choosing standby by the menu I did not hear the disks and fans spin down. Instead it kept running. When I then opened the lid, the backlight or something else shined, but the display stayed all black. The only solution was to keep the powerbutton pressed for a hard shutdown. The only solution for now seems to be to:

Fix sluggish mouse in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:32:50 +0000

For some time now i have the problem with my Dell Latitude E6510 Laptop that when I plug in a USB mouse the mouse is really slow and sluggish. Usually a reboot fixes this, but this is very inconvenient. Today I tried some googleing again and found at least a workaround to restart the usb-services without rebooting. This usually helps to fix the mouse.

Getting DIGITUS-DN-70440 to work with Ubuntu 11.10 and ndiswrapper

Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:47:52 +0000

I needed a new wlan stick for my fixed pc, as the old one had a very weak reception, so I looked a bit in the shops and found that a realtek stick with reverse-sma port + a extra large antenna just were about 15 Euros. The exact name of the stick is DIGITUS-DN-70440, but it has a Realtek 8192CU chipset on board. Thinking about the fine support for Realtek Ethernet-Cards and reading it had “Linux-Support” I thought it should work like a charm…..Screw this. The crapstick kept kicking me out of the wlan every 10 seconds and I was blaming everthing else until I realised, it’s the driver. The experience I made was: you just can’t use the linux driver…