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Yuusou
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 Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2006 10:02 pm Post subject: Dell Inspiron 9300 Wireless problem |
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| Okay, I installed on a Dell Inspiron 9300 and loaded support and did all installations for the ipw2200 wireless card and stuff, but the only way to turn on the card is Fn F2, but Gentoo doesn't recognize those keys. Help anyone? |
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sirtalon42
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 12:04 am Post subject: |
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I have an Inspiron 9300 (just got it when dell replaced my crappy 5150 they couldn't fix). If you could post the output of 'dmesg | grep ipw2200' (thats the pipe character between dmesg and grep) that would help greatly.
FnF2 should only enable/disable the wireless antenna, not actually do anything like remove the device. Also posting the output of 'iwconfig' would be very useful (iwconfig is part of wireless-tools).
To get the ipw2200 working on my system I installed gentoo sources 2.6.15-r1 (with ipw2200 and ieee80211 compiled as modules) and then had to emerge 'ipw2200-firmware'.
Also Gentoo won't recognize Fn F2 because it goes straight to the hardware, and Gentoo never even knows about it. |
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Yuusou
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| Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| alright thanks a lot, I will do just that |
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drizek
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| Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2006 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| ya, fn f2 does actually turn it on and off. the led is controlled by software though, and the reason it does not turn on is because of some bug that noone has fixed yet. |
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jimonade
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i did my first sync, -uDNva world in months last night. since the update i've had problems with my wireless.
i have a latitude d610 with ipw2200 wireless adapter.
when i press "fn-f2" to activate/deactivate the wireless dmesg says...
| Code: | atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0x88 on isa0060/serio0).
atkbd.c: Use 'setkeycodes e008 <keycode>' to make it known.
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i dont have an eth1 interface at all it seems, although the modules are loaded...
| Code: | Ramiken ~ # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
ip6tnl0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Ramiken ~ # lsmod
Module Size Used by
ohci_hcd 16580 0
parport_pc 20228 0
parport 18624 1 parport_pc
ipw2200 88620 0
ieee80211 36648 0
ieee80211_crypt 4548 0
firmware_class 7168 1 ipw2200
yenta_socket 21452 0
rsrc_nonstatic 9984 1 yenta_socket
pcmcia_core 31760 2 yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic
tg3 85380 0
ehci_hcd 24776 0
uhci_hcd 26320 0 |
i've toggled the "fn-f2" on and off hoping to activate it, still no luck.
and my wireless led doesnt work in linux either, but i've had the card itself working fine in the past.
any ideas?
EDIT: i just noticed that the huge emerge -uDNva didnt finish properly. wireless-tools, wpa_supplicant to be updated... so the problem will likely go away once this is finished. |
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