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Making Linux Recognize Vaio Docking Stations?

Posted by Cliff on from the getting-things-working dept.

dknight asks: "I've recently moved my Sony Vaio SuperSlim R505TE Laptop to Slackware Linux. Let me tell you, it was quite an adventure. I'm still having one major problem though. The docking station connects to the laptop via a firewire connection, so it doesnt recognize the CD Rom. I've installed Firewire support in the kernel, but I'm still having a hard time getting this going. Has anyone else attempted this feat?"

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  1. /. Support Forum by peel · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    When I want news for nerds, I go to Slashdot or Memepool or even C-Net news. When I want to research a problem on my Linux box or my Mac or whatever else, I visit the appropriate forums on the web. Be it a mailing list, a newsgroup or what have you. Plain and simple. When I go to Slashdot and find it has been turned into a support forum I question a lot of things about the site as a whole. C'mon Cliff, let's not turn /. or any of the others into tech support sites. Next time something like his interests you let's direct the person to an appropriate site and not use /. as the answer just because we can. -peel

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