On Fri, November 23, 2007 3:08 pm, DJA wrote:
>
> Still want to know laptop brand. This may also be an issue with whatever
> mechanism enables the chip, e.g. ACPI or tools specific to your brand an
> model.
>
Great Quality NX-L515
>
>>> Any indication from dmesg or the logs that the card was recognized at
>>> F8
>>> boot up?
>>
dmesg in its entirety
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Linux version 2.6.23.1-42.fc8
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 4.1.2
20070925 (Red Hat 4.1.2-3
3)) #1 SMP Tue Oct 30 13:55:12 EDT 2007
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009dc00 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009dc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001be80000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001be80000 - 000000001be8f000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001be8f000 - 000000001bf00000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf00000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000e0000000 - 00000000f0000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec10000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fee00000 - 00000000fee01000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
446MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000f8a30
Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection
Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 114304) 0 entries of 256 used
Zone PFN ranges:
DMA 0 -> 4096
Normal 4096 -> 114304
HighMem 114304 -> 114304
Movable zone start PFN for each node
early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges
0: 0 -> 114304
On node 0 totalpages: 114304
DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap
DMA zone: 0 pages reserved
DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0
Normal zone: 861 pages used for memmap
Normal zone: 109347 pages, LIFO batch:31
HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap
Movable zone: 0 pages used for memmap
DMI present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP 000F8970, 0014 (r0 ECSSYS)
ACPI: RSDT 1BE891B7, 003C (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: FACP 1BE8EC85, 0074 (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 ATI F4240)
ACPI: DSDT 1BE891F3, 5A92 (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 MSFT 2000001)
ACPI: FACS 1BE8FFC0, 0040
ACPI: TCPA 1BE8ECF9, 0032 (r2 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 PTEC 0)
ACPI: APIC 1BE8ED2B, 0050 (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: SLIC 1BE8ED7B, 0176 (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: MCFG 1BE8EEF1, 003C (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 LTP 0)
ACPI: SSDT 1BE8EF2D, 00D3 (r1 ECSSYS ECSPRDCT 6040000 LTP 1)
ATI board detected. Disabling timer routing over 8254.
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x8008
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x00] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:12 APIC version 16
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x01] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 1, version 33, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 21 low level)
Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:c0000000)
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009d000 - 000000000009e000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 000000000009e000 - 00000000000a0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000a0000 - 00000000000d0000
swsusp: Registered nosave memory region: 00000000000d0000 - 0000000000100000
Built 1 zonelists in Zone order. Total pages: 113411
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
mapped APIC to ffffb000 (fee00000)
mapped IOAPIC to ffffa000 (fec00000)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Initializing CPU#0
CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c07a8000 soft=c0788000
PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes)
Detected 1596.159 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
console [tty0] enabled
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Memory: 445160k/457216k available (2183k kernel code, 11376k reserved,
1117k data, 280k init, 0k highmem)
virtual kernel memory layout:
fixmap : 0xffc53000 - 0xfffff000 (3760 kB)
pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB)
vmalloc : 0xdc800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 559 MB)
lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdbe80000 ( 446 MB)
.init : 0xc073f000 - 0xc0785000 ( 280 kB)
.data : 0xc0621f7d - 0xc0739544 (1117 kB)
.text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc0621f7d (2183 kB)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
SLUB: Genslabs=22, HWalign=64, Order=0-1, MinObjects=4, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 3194.23 BogoMIPS
(lpj=1597119)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux: Initializing.
SELinux: Starting in permissive mode
selinux_register_security: Registering secondary module capability
Capability LSM initialized as secondary
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: 078bfbff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000000
00002001 00000000 00000019 00000000
CPU: L1 I Cache: 64K (64 bytes/line), D cache 64K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: L2 Cache: 512K (64 bytes/line)
CPU: After all inits, caps: 078bf3ff ebd3fbff 00000000 00000410 00002001
00000000 00000019 00000000
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
Compat vDSO mapped to ffffe000.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
SMP alternatives: switching to UP code
Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed
ACPI: Core revision 20070126
CPU0: AMD Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3200+ stepping 02
Total of 1 processors activated (3194.23 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 apic1=0 pin1=0 apic2=-1 pin2=-1
Brought up 1 CPUs
sizeof(vma)=84 bytes
sizeof(page)=32 bytes
sizeof(inode)=336 bytes
sizeof(dentry)=132 bytes
sizeof(ext3inode)=488 bytes
sizeof(buffer_head)=56 bytes
sizeof(skbuff)=180 bytes
sizeof(task_struct)=1552 bytes
Booting paravirtualized kernel on bare hardware
Time: 22:11:34 Date: 11/23/07
NET: Registered protocol family 16
No dock devices found.
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: BIOS BUG #81[00000000] found
PCI: Using configuration type 1
Setting up standard PCI resources
ACPI: EC: Look up EC in DSDT
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x11, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:14.4
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PB4_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P2P_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGP_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 10 11) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKU] (IRQs 3 4 5 7) *0, disabled.
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
ACPI: bus type pnp registered
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 10 devices
ACPI: ACPI bus type pnp unregistered
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new interface driver hub
usbcore: registered new device driver usb
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq". If it helps, post a
report
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 7 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 8 of bridge 0000:00:04.0
NetLabel: Initializing
NetLabel: domain hash size = 128
NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4
NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default
Time: tsc clocksource has been installed.
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xe0000000-0xefffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfec00000-0xfec00fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:01: iomem range 0xfee00000-0xfee00fff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x1080-0x1080 has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x200-0x20f has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x220-0x22f has been reserved
pnp: 00:08: ioport range 0x40b-0x40b has been reserved
pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff could not be reserved
pnp: 00:09: iomem range 0x0-0xfff could not be reserved
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0
IO window: 9000-9fff
MEM window: d0100000-d01fffff
PREFETCH window: d4000000-d7ffffff
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:04.0
IO window: disabled.
MEM window: disabled.
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:14.4
IO window: a000-afff
MEM window: d0200000-d02fffff
PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 196608 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384)
TCP reno registered
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 2909k freed
apm: BIOS not found.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1195855893.437:1): initialized
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
SELinux: Registering netfilter hooks
ksign: Installing public key data
Loading keyring
- Added public key 230FF4508E76ABC1
- User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key)
Block layer SCSI generic (bsg) driver version 0.4 loaded (major 253)
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered (default)
PCI: MSI quirk detected. MSI deactivated.
Boot video device is 0000:01:05.0
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:04.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:04.0:pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[0000:00:04.0:pcie02]
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3])
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports 8 throttling states)
ACPI Exception (processor_core-0819): AE_NOT_FOUND, Processor Device is
not present [20070126]
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (29 C)
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
Switched to high resolution mode on CPU 0
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12ac
Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
Linux agpgart interface v0.102
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize
input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:KBC0,PNP0f13:MSE0] at 0x60,0x64 irq 1,12
i8042.c: Detected active multiplexing controller, rev 1.1.
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
serio: i8042 AUX0 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX1 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX2 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 AUX3 port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input1
cpuidle: using governor menu
usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev
usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver
TCP cubic registered
Initializing XFRM netlink socket
NET: Registered protocol family 1
NET: Registered protocol family 17
powernow-k8: Found 1 Mobile AMD Sempron(tm) Processor 3200+ processors (1
cpu cores) (version 2.00.00)
powernow-k8: 0 : fid 0x8 (1600 MHz), vid 0xe
powernow-k8: 1 : fid 0x0 (800 MHz), vid 0x18
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
Magic number: 15:709:199
Freeing unused kernel memory: 280k freed
Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 849k
Marking TSC unstable due to: TSC halts in idle.
Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.2[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: irq 16, io mem 0xd0007000
ehci_hcd 0000:00:13.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.0: irq 16, io mem 0xd0005000
usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:13.1[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: OHCI Host Controller
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ohci_hcd 0000:00:13.1: irq 16, io mem 0xd0006000
usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 4 ports detected
Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 6.2, id: 0x1a0b1, caps: 0xa04713/0x200000
input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input2
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0
SCSI subsystem initialized
libata version 2.21 loaded.
sata_sil 0000:00:12.0: version 2.3
PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:12.0 (0005 -> 0007)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:12.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 17
scsi0 : sata_sil
scsi1 : sata_sil
ata1: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xdc82c080 ctl 0xdc82c08a bmdma 0xdc82c000 irq 17
ata2: SATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0xdc82c0c0 ctl 0xdc82c0ca bmdma 0xdc82c008 irq 17
ata1: SATA link up 1.5 Gbps (SStatus 113 SControl 310)
ata1.00: ATA-7: Hitachi HTS541640J9SA00, SB1OC70P, max UDMA/100
ata1.00: 78140160 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 0/32)
ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100
ata2: SATA link down (SStatus 0 SControl 310)
scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA Hitachi HTS54164 SB1O PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] 78140160 512-byte hardware sectors (40008 MB)
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write Protect is off
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't
support DPO or FUA
sda: sda1 sda2 sda3
sd 0:0:0:0: [sda] Attached SCSI disk
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.1[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:14.1 to 64
scsi2 : pata_atiixp
scsi3 : pata_atiixp
ata3: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00018460 irq 14
ata4: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00018468 irq 15
ata3.00: ATAPI: TSSTcorpCDW/DVD TS-L462D, TM01, max UDMA/33
ata3.00: configured for UDMA/33
scsi 2:0:0:0: CD-ROM TSSTcorp CDW/DVD TS-L462D TM01 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
SELinux: Disabled at runtime.
SELinux: Unregistering netfilter hooks
audit(1195855901.903:2): selinux=0 auid=4294967295
sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0
scsi 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
sr 2:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0
piix4_smbus 0000:00:14.0: Found 0000:00:14.0 device
input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input3
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input4
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input5
ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PWRB]
input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input6
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
ACPI: AC Adapter [AC0] (off-line)
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver
sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman
sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:05:04.2 [1217:7120] (rev 1)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:04.2[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
sdhci:slot0: Unknown controller version (16). You may experience problems.
mmc0: SDHCI at 0xd0208800 irq 19 PIO
PCI: Enabling device 0000:05:04.0 (0015 -> 0017)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:04.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
firewire_ohci: Added fw-ohci device 0000:05:04.0, OHCI version 1.10
Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -236803391 ns)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
firewire_core: created new fw device fw0 (0 config rom retries, S400)
8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:05.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 21
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xdc8ccc00, 00:03:0d:5d:60:02, IRQ 21
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
input: Video Bus as /class/input/input7
ACPI: Video Device [VGA] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:05:03.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 20
phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.2[A] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
hda_codec: Unknown model for ALC883, trying auto-probe from BIOS...
device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded
loop: module loaded
EXT3 FS on sda1, internal journal
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS on sda3, internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Adding 514072k swap on /dev/sda2. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:514072k
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
Netfilter messages via NETLINK v0.30.
nf_conntrack version 0.5.0 (7168 buckets, 28672 max)
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2006 Netfilter Core Team
input: Unspecified device as /class/input/input8
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
audit(1195855921.450:3): audit_pid=1739 old=0 by auid=4294967295
Bluetooth: Core ver 2.11
NET: Registered protocol family 31
Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
eth0: link down
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:05.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
hda-intel: Invalid position buffer, using LPIB read method instead.
usb 1-8: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usb 1-8: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
scsi4 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new interface driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb-storage: device scan complete
scsi 4:0:0:0: Direct-Access AVB 2.0 2004 Sep. 256MB 2.00 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
ready
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 512000 512-byte hardware sectors (262 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] 512000 512-byte hardware sectors (262 MB)
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Write Protect is off
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Mode Sense: 03 00 00 00
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Assuming drive cache: write through
sdb: unknown partition table
sd 4:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
sd 4:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0
hfs: unable to find HFS+ superblock
>> Below, and this looks promising -- maybe the firmware thing? (Marked w/
>> LOOKEE)
>>
>>> Does the computer have a wireless on/off (enable/disable)
>>> switch or key? It's possible the radio is turned off.
>>
>> It has such a switch w/ indicator light. I turn it on before booting.
>> Whether the light is lying is difficult to say, but we should recall
>> that
>> this worked in a limited fashion under Vista, indication _some_ power
>> got
>> to the card.
>
> Okay, but likely that's a problem area in Linux. If the radio is enabled
> by default at boot up, good. Otherwise, it's questionable whether the
> switch even functions in Linux. Depends on whether the switch has a
> simple hardware connection, or routes through soft-/firm-ware somehow.
> Obviously, if it worked pre-F8, then it *should* work in F8, although
> the mechanism may have changed.
>
>
>>> Remember that if the card requires firmware, Fedora does not include
>>> that as it's proprietary, so you'll have to fetch it from a third party
>>> site, the mfr website, or any CD's you have for that particular laptop
>>> or card. For instance, this is required for BCM43xxx and IPW2200
>>> chipsets. Or you need Ndiswrapper installed and configured for cards
>>> that don't have a Linux-native driver.
>>
>> This is interesting.
>>
>> When Jim S. and I were noodling with this at the installfest, we
>> determined that the firmware was a series of modules named "rtNNNN.bin"
>> that lived in /lib/firmware. I was fully prepared to track them down and
>> install them. However, after the vanilla installation of F8, the
>> directory
>> and the .bins were already there.
>>
>> rt2561.bin
>> rt2561s.bin
>> rt2661.bin
>> rt73.bin
>
> Was this an upgrade or fresh install? This implication of what you say
> above is that it is a fresh install.
>
Fresh install.
>
>
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# dmesg|grep wlan
>> ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
>>
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>> LOOKEE! "link not ready"
>
> Which seems to indicate it actually saw the card, although I rather see
> proof in dmesg that it saw the *card* (hardware) as opposed to an
> interface (logical).
>
> Here are more links that may be of use:
>
>
I'll poke around in them
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