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to change sound devices I can do and restart my computer and it works, but I need to be able to do this without restarting. Is this even possible with alsa? Do I need to start looking into pulse audio?

edit /etc/asound.conf and add entries for your sound cards pcm.audigy { type hw card 0 } pcm.sennheiser { type hw card 2 } I've got a very similar problem. I've got a onboard soundcard and a usb headset. Both work great if I restart the machine after pluging in the headset or unplugging. I'm using ...

Thnx for the reply. I'll try those options if it gets worse. It's strange but ever since I deleted "quiet" from /boot/grub/menu.lst it hardly happens at all. Thats seems like a strange work-around but someone also mentioned the same thing happening in the bug report I linked so I guess its...

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=523831

Looks like someone else has my bug. But that was back in Jun. You think I should just try a backport kernel or something?

That didn't work. It still hangs at "loading kernel modules..." and it doesn't display anymore useful information at all.

If this only happened once in a while, I wouldn't worry about it, but it only seems to get worse over time, until eventually it won't boot anymore. Thats an odd bug.

Sweet, I'll try that. Quiet was on.

I will tell you what I havn't tried. Slackware and Hanna Montana Linux.

I'm 31 but watching 80's cartoons keeps me feeling 8.

I attempted to install archlinux a couple of weeks ago. I think I finally got it done. It booted. I was surprised, but I was so confused during the process that I said to hell with it all together. Maybe there is an easier way to install it, I dono, but it was painful. I really don't like editing c...

I always install a minimal system and I don't use recommendations. I go crazy if I see an extra program in my start menu that I didn't want

Sometimes I boot and I get to the part where it says: and it hangs.

Anyone else ever get that? Or maybe you could help me trouble shoot it?

I was using rcconf to disable apache on boot and I noticed some CPU stuff in there as well that you may could disable. Or it might blow up your computer, I donno lol. This may be just a fancy way of doing what the last comment said too.

Thanks Soul Singin' for the help guide! I just compiled something besides a kernel for the first time! It was dropbox. Can't live without the dropbox.

Never mind. I'm just going to use the b43-fwcutter method for now. I'm tired of working on it lol. I need to give that method a fair spin anyway and see if the speed is as good as ndiswrapper method.

Ohhhh I think I know why it was working yesterday and not today. I may have had the b43 driver installed and running the whole time I thought it was ndiswrapper doing its thing. I will start from scratch and be back later!

Your probly right. Very odd how it worked yesterday tho lol. I'll go back over the ndiswrapper stuff and make sure everything is cool with that.

after running iwconfig i get also I don't know if it matters but the wifi button on my laptop isn't lit up like it should be. I've tried pressing it and nothing happened.

do I really need the last 2 lines? I don't know the network name or password till I do a scan, which isn't possible until I get the wlan0 up. I did add the first 2 lines which is auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp and ran ifup wlan0 and I get this error. wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No ...

I installed the ndiswrapper for my broadcom network card yesterday and it worked fine. Today the wifi won't work. I tried to type in : ifup wlan0 and I get this error Ignoring unknown interface wlan-wlan0 my /etc/network/interfaces file looks like this: # The loopback network interface auto lo iface...

Are you OCing with the bios or something in debian?