Lan Barnes wrote:
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
Googling shows very little on this laptop, probably because it's so new.
But there is some indication among those few hits of problems, however
minor, with the wifi card. One person recommended swapping if for a
different brand/model (if that's even possible), which is certainly not
an option if you're concerned about warranty. But this is too small a
sample at this point to provide useful info.
Any indication from dmesg or the logs that the card was recognized at
F8
boot up?
dmesg in its entirety
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[dmesg snipped]
Odd that the card does not physically show up as far as dmesg is
concerned, even though hwconf shows subsequently shows it.
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.
Okay, then no cruft from previous install is present. Just checking.
You might think about letting someone you trust (Gus seems more than
qualified) SSH into the laptop and muck around a bit. I routinely do
maintenance on family and some others whom I support via SSH (mostly
through VPN endpoint routers I always insist they get).
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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