rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
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rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
hello again
good to see you again
anyway
i installed rosa 2012 fresh on dell inspiron n4050 that already have hyperid graphics and i solved it with asus-switchroo script
anyway
in dell manual they said
if you need to activate the wifi
you should use function button + f2
but rosa understand that shortcut as bluetooth activation/deactivation method
so how can i fix this
good to see you again
anyway
i installed rosa 2012 fresh on dell inspiron n4050 that already have hyperid graphics and i solved it with asus-switchroo script
anyway
in dell manual they said
if you need to activate the wifi
you should use function button + f2
but rosa understand that shortcut as bluetooth activation/deactivation method
so how can i fix this
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
Did you select the dell inspiron keyboard in KCM/Input Devices?
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
there is no such type in there that is compatible with inspiron 4050
the most wierd thing here
harddrake put under keyboard more than 6 type of drivers
the most wierd thing here
harddrake put under keyboard more than 6 type of drivers
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
IIt's not in Hardrake that you have to look in, but in KDE.
So, open system setiings, and under hardware choose input devices, then in Keyboard, hardware tab - keyboard model you will see nearly a hundred of keyboards: among them there is the Dell inspiron one.
In any case, if I well remember, the f2 key in dell does not allow you to toggle among activation of the single wireless boards, but only activates or disactivates both of them. and the behaviour is the same in windows and in linux. If in windows for example you deactivate the wifi card, then the f2 key only activates and deactivates the bluetooth card.
Probaqbly the card has to be activated first in windows as the linux driver does not activate it by default or you shoud contact Atheros to ask for a procedure to activate it in linux.
Just a last question, did you try to activate and deactivate the wifi from the network applet? Moreover I see that there is a ifup-wireless script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ( strangely there is no ifdown-wireless script)
P.S. Rethinking to your problem, you can even try to configure your card through the harddrake - run configuration tool that opens the old mandriva wireless configuration program.
So, open system setiings, and under hardware choose input devices, then in Keyboard, hardware tab - keyboard model you will see nearly a hundred of keyboards: among them there is the Dell inspiron one.
In any case, if I well remember, the f2 key in dell does not allow you to toggle among activation of the single wireless boards, but only activates or disactivates both of them. and the behaviour is the same in windows and in linux. If in windows for example you deactivate the wifi card, then the f2 key only activates and deactivates the bluetooth card.
Probaqbly the card has to be activated first in windows as the linux driver does not activate it by default or you shoud contact Atheros to ask for a procedure to activate it in linux.
Just a last question, did you try to activate and deactivate the wifi from the network applet? Moreover I see that there is a ifup-wireless script in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts ( strangely there is no ifdown-wireless script)
P.S. Rethinking to your problem, you can even try to configure your card through the harddrake - run configuration tool that opens the old mandriva wireless configuration program.
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
i already know tat you are talking about systemsettings
but the inspiron that you talking about is 6xxxx / 7xxxx
while i have 4050
but the inspiron that you talking about is 6xxxx / 7xxxx
while i have 4050
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
but did you read my other sugestions. Have you already tested them?
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
there is strange behave in harddrake if i try to test wifi
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as you know if you try to test your connection even its wierd or wifi
harddrake give you that ability
but
even when i used DELL manuals method (( starting wifi from fn + f2 ))
and
to make it more confusing harddrake find that card but ....
it will not let you to test your connection through it ..... it will but just for wired
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oh .... yah about activate the wifi in windows then return to linux (( that method wont work for me because i dont use windows ))
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and .... about activate / deactivate the card from applet
after system start .... wireless by default will be activated and if i try to deactivate bluetooth from kde applet then i can
but ..... if i use DELL manuals method then try to deactivate bluetooth from kde applet .... kde applet cant do it
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as you know if you try to test your connection even its wierd or wifi
harddrake give you that ability
but
even when i used DELL manuals method (( starting wifi from fn + f2 ))
and
to make it more confusing harddrake find that card but ....
it will not let you to test your connection through it ..... it will but just for wired
================================
oh .... yah about activate the wifi in windows then return to linux (( that method wont work for me because i dont use windows ))
===============
and .... about activate / deactivate the card from applet
after system start .... wireless by default will be activated and if i try to deactivate bluetooth from kde applet then i can
but ..... if i use DELL manuals method then try to deactivate bluetooth from kde applet .... kde applet cant do it
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
As far as I know, dell comes with windows preinstalled, so, as a workaround you can try to install windows on a virtual machine, or, better, on an usb drive, and try to activate the board from there. I repeat, the Fn+F2 key method activates both cards and not just one. If one is deactivated through the driver, then it stays on that state, whatever you do. I had a similar problem with a precision laptop trhat my wife uses. The wifi card is an Intel one, but I well remember that, while I was out for some days, she phoned me because she lost her wifi connection. I gave her directions to solve the problem in windows, but, during her tests, she left the wifi card disabled, so the Fn+F2 combination toggled just the bluetooth card, and not the wifi one.
This behaviour remained the same even when switching from windows to linux. When I went back I activated the card from windows and I fixed the problem in both operating systems.
So chances there are that on the card there is a setting that activates or deativates it, and that the dell method uses a different trick to activate and deactivate both. Consider that dell method is independent from the hardware intalled. On that laptop it worked with a broadcomm and with an intel wifi card, which, I believe, do not share tha same hardware.
If the above does not work, I guess that you have a defective wifi card.
This behaviour remained the same even when switching from windows to linux. When I went back I activated the card from windows and I fixed the problem in both operating systems.
So chances there are that on the card there is a setting that activates or deativates it, and that the dell method uses a different trick to activate and deactivate both. Consider that dell method is independent from the hardware intalled. On that laptop it worked with a broadcomm and with an intel wifi card, which, I believe, do not share tha same hardware.
If the above does not work, I guess that you have a defective wifi card.
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
thats ..... if its come with pre-installed windows
but this one comes with ubuntu
and it didnt have that problem .... (( i mean the wireless work ))
so i didnt hesitate and installed rosa instead ......
FYI
i didnt deactivated before rosa installing
but this one comes with ubuntu
and it didnt have that problem .... (( i mean the wireless work ))
so i didnt hesitate and installed rosa instead ......
FYI
i didnt deactivated before rosa installing
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
So, it looks like a driver problem. I never had an atheros card, is the driver embedded in kernel?
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
and how can i know
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by the way if the driver hasn't been installed then harddrake should ask me to install it when its first starting attempt
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by the way if the driver hasn't been installed then harddrake should ask me to install it when its first starting attempt
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
looking in hard drake on the right, it should point out which module it is using, if any, then you could go in software manager and check to see if the module is present as an external module and what it is aimed to. Broadcomm, for instance, requires an external module and, as far as I know, it has never been integrated in kernel. About Atheros I'm in doubt, as I had an Atheros based router and I remember guys from openwrt continuously updating the kernel hoping to get better wireless drivers that in any case never performed as well as the router's proprietary ones.
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
i saw in harddrake that the wirless name is broadcom
and the kind of driver that harddrake use it for that device is marked as unknown
so i tried to install
dkms-broadcom-wl
to solve it .... but it didnt solve it
and the kind of driver that harddrake use it for that device is marked as unknown
so i tried to install
dkms-broadcom-wl
to solve it .... but it didnt solve it
Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
So the problem is that your card is not handled by the driver, which explains why you are not able to initialize it through the old configuration tool.
On http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 there are some information about the boadcomm drivers end the supported chipset. To identify your you can follow the the instructions on the page or more simply look for the device id in harddrake. If your chip is a new one, chances there are that you have to ask the community to compile that new driver (if this has not aledy been done in some cooker repos).
On http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 there are some information about the boadcomm drivers end the supported chipset. To identify your you can follow the the instructions on the page or more simply look for the device id in harddrake. If your chip is a new one, chances there are that you have to ask the community to compile that new driver (if this has not aledy been done in some cooker repos).
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Re: rosa found inspiron wifi adaptor but ........
i am afraid to say that this dell laptop use
14e4:4365
which has no support
i wish really wish if MIB kernel team help me here
so please i nead that driver if you can make it
14e4:4365
which has no support
i wish really wish if MIB kernel team help me here
so please i nead that driver if you can make it