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Pumices
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 Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:52 pm Post subject: Laptop with wireless on/off button |
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| I recently bought an acer travelmate 3200 and I have installed gentoo on it. I was able to just plug the network card in for times when I needed the internet. But I would like for my wireless card to work but there are two problems. One I am not sure how to make it work, and second the acer has a button on the front to turn the wireless on and off. When that button is pressed gentoo says that it is an unidentified keycode. Is there a way I can set that button up to turn my wireless card on and off while in gentoo. Thanks for any help you can give |
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oshman
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:58 pm Post subject: |
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Interesting problem.
| Quote: | | Is there a way I can set that button up to turn my wireless card on and off while in gentoo. |
What kind of wireless card are you using and are you able to run "iwconfig". I know I had to emerge "net-wireless/wireless-tools" before my card was detected.
You could try using "ifplugd" which is a package that will configure an IP address for the wireless card if no cable connection is detected. Just start the wireless card by default and it will be used if needed. But as for the on/off switch I and hardware detection by Gentoo, I don't have much to offer.
Good luck.
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Tamsco
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| Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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First things first, you need to figure out what wireless card you have
As root
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(if that doesn't work emerge pciutils)
Next you will have to figure what driver it uses, chances are emerging wireless-tools will do the trick but I'd Google Linux it.
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Pumices
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:24 am Post subject: |
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| The card is the intel Pro/wireless 2200BG |
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laurentgedm
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 12:57 am Post subject: |
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Then
should do.
Well, i think so... search the forums for more information.
emerge -s ipw
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nixnut
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| Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject: |
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Moved from Installing Gentoo to Networking & Security.
Not an installing Gentoo problem |
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extragedy
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| Posted: Fri Aug 19, 2005 12:55 am Post subject: |
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I know some cards requires software switchs... I got that from ipw2100 docs - might help :
Most laptops provide the ability for the user to physically disable the radio.
Some vendors have implemented this as a physical switch that requires no
software to turn the radio off and on. On other laptops, however, the switch
is controlled through a button being pressed and a software driver then making
calls to turn the radio off and on. This is referred to as a "software based
RF kill switch"
See the Sysfs helper file 'rf_kill' for determining the state of the RF switch
on your system. |
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