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Today's Topics:

1. Re: T60 3945APG WiFi Card Problem (Chris)
2. Re: Intel integrated video on HP Pavilion DV2000 not
recognized. (Christopher Horler)
3. Re: T60 3945ABG WiFi Card Problem (Solved) (Peter Hemmings)
4. Re: T60 3945APG WiFi Card Problem (Simon Iremonger (bblug))


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:01:40 +0000
From: Chris <cshorler@googlemail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>,
Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] T60 3945APG WiFi Card Problem
Message-ID: <8a7c4021-8322-445d-923a-ef61682e6aa5@email.android.com>
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Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
>On 11/01/14 10:57, Peter Hemmings wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I switched my Thinkpad on today and no wireless (ethernet is OK).
>> I did some basics as I have dual boot and checked on another OS
>(Mint)
>> and Windoze with same result.
>>
>> I have a "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG" controller on my
>> Fedora 19 with a mini pci card installed.
>
>Ooooops sorry for my instant reply!
>
>Was that the card!?
>
>
>I can see the driver iwl3945
>> is loaded but cannot seem to see the card on either the pci or usb
>bus.
>>

It might be that I'm misunderstanding what you've got - but for the above I'd check the seating of the card. If it's mini PCI and still doesn't work, let me know and I'll bring a spare to the next LUG meeting.

Chris

>> Can I determine if its the card or aerial as I have flexed the screen
>> recently!?
>>
>> PCI, USB and module information attached.
>>
>> I will be getting a screwdriver out later today to look and wiggle a
>few
>> connections!
>>
>> Regards
>>
>>
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 12:33:05 +0000
From: Christopher Horler <cshorler@googlemail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <Bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] Intel integrated video on HP Pavilion DV2000
not recognized.
Message-ID:
<CAAeT8m_U-21RjywLfRNNYEYHq-=_bWBsNU9RDHSe1-BD=K7Q0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 12 January 2014 10:32, Simon Iremonger (bblug) <bblug@iremonger.me.uk> wrote:
>>> The PCI id you've given isn't listed by the kernel driver include. You
>>> might want to raise a bug / propose a patch upstream if fixing this and
>>> recompiling the kernel module works for you.
> Now THATS a helpful answer.
>
>>> You can clone the Intel git tree for this.
> Now, this would be nice for me to learn about a bit... Do we need
> a 'separate' intel Git tree, or just a newer version of complete
> kernel source ready to rebuild? etc. How does the intel git
> tree compare to the oter anyway?
>
>> Would also be interesting to see complete kernel log.
> OK, attach a log. I note that I believe I have tried with and
> without 'nomodeset' boot parameter.
>
> THANKYOU for the helpful answer so far =).

https://01.org/linuxgraphics/community/kernel

The reason you clone a git tree is so you can make a local branch,
modify it and then submit your patch upstream (probably via the
mailing list), this is common git workflow. Though if you've never
done it, it could well be simpler for you to just create a bug report.

Most of the devices listed in the PCI IDs don't have more than one id,
also there's one reference in the mailing list archive to 27a6 -
listed as a second device function, so perhaps there's something else
going on and the other id is the important one.

I'd suggest you restate your question on the intel mailing list or the
irc channel, someone may know the exact problem.

Chris



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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:43:01 +0000
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] T60 3945ABG WiFi Card Problem (Solved)
Message-ID: <52D29BE5.6050408@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; Format="flowed"

Solved!

I put it all back and it now works!

I could say it was bad connections - but I will be honest!

First a bit of history:
I dropped it on a carpet (18ins) last week but did not notice anything
was wrong at the time!
I only have a copy of the maintenance manual not a user manual showing
all the buttons etc - get the sense of where I am going!!?

I put it all back OK (getting quite quick at doing it now), still
exhibited same fault. I then noticed that blue tooth was off as well so
checked in the fc18 setup to find it was "disabled in hardware" -
any more clues needed!?

Checked BIOS and all was enabled OK, decided to try to find user manual
but were all .exe files, but found a review with the attached photo!

The T60 has a slider switch on the front edge (that I have never
touched) its use is to switch off Bluetooth/WiFi without playing with
S/W, it was midway between the two positions and (I assume) the drop
just switched it off.

And the lessons to be learned are always RTFM and get a user one even if
you have a maintenance manual and of course, check the simple things first!

That's about enough "dirty linen" for one day.

Regards

--
Peter H
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:52:01 +0000
From: "Simon Iremonger (bblug)" <bblug@iremonger.me.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] T60 3945APG WiFi Card Problem
Message-ID: <52D29E01.70009@iremonger.me.uk>
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>> I can see the driver iwl3945
>>> is loaded but cannot seem to see the card on either the pci or usb
> It might be that I'm misunderstanding what you've got - but for the
above I'd check the seating of the card. If it's mini PCI and still
doesn't work, let me know and I'll bring a spare to the next LUG


Interestingly, mini-PCIe-sockets, can carry both the pci-express
signals and also a USB signal! Though the Intel WLAN cards I
have seen use the pci-e and not USB...

Still, bad connection as above, makes most sense to me.


--Simon




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