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iccananea
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 Posted: Fri Apr 29, 2005 10:59 pm Post subject: Acer 1362 WLMi wireless card not working |
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Hi!
Gentoo 2005.0
gentoo-sources-2.6.11-r6
ndiswrapper 0.12 (tried also 1.1)
This is my first post and I've searched a lot before in the forums and haven't exactly wht could help me. I have an Acer notebook that has an internal wireless card (ipn 2220). I've tried the ndiswrapper route to get it running, but apparently the card radio isn't on, although I've enabled it through the windows driver (works in WinXP Home). Here's the output that I get from iwconfig:
| Code: | wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:56/154 Noise level:0/154
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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ndiswrapper -l reports driver present, hardware present for neti2220.
After finding out that there is a wireless file in /proc/net, i came to the conclusion that maybe the radio is off, altough it is being turned on automaticly at boot time:
| Code: | cat /proc/net/wireless:
Inter-| sta-| Quality | Discarded packets | Missed | WE
face | tus | link level noise | nwid crypt frag retry misc | beacon | 17
wlan0: 0000 100 56 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
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I think the status indicates that the card is turned off. As I said, it is being turned at boot time (I know because there is a button on the notebook that lights orange when the card is on).
Any ideas on how I can turn it on? I've tried using acer hotkeys (acerhk). I enabled the button (including the setkeycode problem) but had no success. Maybe I'm doing it wrong  .
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iccananea
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| Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 1:51 am Post subject: That's what you get for not reading the ndiswraper wiki page |
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After a couple of months of strugling, I've finally found out what my problem was!!! ACPI was disabling the irq used by the wlan card. So now I pass the acpi=noirq boot param and everything works well (this is said at the ndiswrapper wiki page. silly me...)! Well, sort of...
There are a few catches. The driver must be loaded AFTER the radio was turned on. This means that, if you are using the wlan card, deactivate it and then reactivate it, you MUST reload the driver  . Besides that, I can't get my ethernet and wlan card to work at the same time (192.168.0.X addresses for both).
I'm going to write a small script to load/unload ndiswrapper and bind it to the wireless on/off button. This should solve the problem 
I will also tryout wpa_supplicant. |
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