Cool! A dead wireless doesn't make for a very neat laptop =) Glad that helped.
hcl wrote: > Jason Fuchs wrote: >> For me, in gentoo the blue light used to flicker with activity, now it >> stays on steady all the time...it's strange. >> >> anyways, as far as I can tell on my system, ndiswrapper still sees the >> card with it turned off, so that button only shuts off the RF >> transceiver and doesn't power down the card or anything. >> >> I'm assuming that: >> You're using ndiswrapper, and `ndiswrapper -l` says driver and hardware >> present. >> 'iwlist wlan0 scan' hangs for a moment and then reports 'wlan0 no scan >> results' to indicate it does see your card but isn't seeing any access >> points. >> >> If that is the case, and I remember correctly having this problem about >> a year ago, there was an issue with one of the conf files I had to >> manually change to get it working. >> >> In /etc/ndiswrapper you should have a folder called bcmwl5a or something >> similar. Go into that folder, and you'll see quite a few .conf files. >> I've got 3 (and 2 additional sim links) but you may have more. >> >> You'll need to su root. Try this and see what happens. >> >> $ su then enter your root password. >> prompt will change> >> # cd /etc/ndiswrapper >> # cp bcmwl5a (or whatever) bcmwl5a.orig -rpv (this makes a >> copy of your conf files.) >> # cd bcmwl5a >> # gedit >> >> >From gedit open up each conf file one at a time. Start at the first >> one >> (because I don't know which one it is....) >> >> Open it up and go to the line for RadioState| and change the number. If >> it's 1 put a 0, if its a 0 put a 1. Save the file and repeat for all >> the conf files. (Note that some may not have that line, if it doesn't >> move on.) Once you've changed them all, quit gedit. >> >> #rmmod ndiswrapper >> # modprobe ndiswrapper >> # ndiswrapper -l (make sure it's still present.) >> # iwlist wlan0 scan >> >> If it's still failing, go back through and change the RadioStates all to >> 0, instead of flip-flopping them. (This is how mine currently are, but >> I've seen many different versions of these conf files.) >> >> Hopefully this will help.... >> >> Sorry for the long post. >> -Jason >> >> On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:42 +0200, hcl wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> Since i upgraded from ubuntu breezy to ubuntu dapper about 2 weeks >>> ago, the wireless button on my r3000 stopped responding, and is set >>> to "off" by default. >>> for a long time, i believed this button was entirely hardware >>> controlled, but, apparently not. >>> Whenever i boot into windows, windows activates the button and it >>> works normally again.. but when i reboot, the wireless gets set to >>> off again, with the button unresponsive.. >>> currently, this is crippling my ability to have wireless in linux, >>> which worked fine for over a year.. >>> My current guess is that some setting in the bios got messed up, >>> which is disabling the button on boot... >>> However, with the crippled bios hp puts on the r3000, i'm obviously >>> not able to do anything about it. >>> I was wondering whether there are any people on this list who are >>> suffering from the same problem, and whether anyone might be able to >>> help me solve this issue, and get my laptop to re-enable the button.. >>> >>> I already tried hp support, but obviously, they're about as helpful >>> as how far i can throw them.. >>> >>> HCl >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxR3000 mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 >>> Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxR3000 mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 >> Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ >> >> > Thanks!!! :D that worked! > it turned out that i didn't have the radiostate line in my config at > all, for unknown reasons. i added it, first tried 1, which made it see > the card, but it still didn't work, now it's set to 0 and the wireless > led turned on and it works :D > > HCl > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ > _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
