Turning on Wireless Card for an Evo N800w

[kmd]

I am unable to turn on my wireless card (a Multiport W200 from Compaq) in Fedora 7. Normally, I would press Fn-F2, but this does not work while Linux is running. I have a Compaq Evo N800w. Would anyone be able to help me with this? Thank you.

[anyweb]

login as root in a terminal

 

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su -

 

paste the results of the following command here

 

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lspci

[kmd]

Here's the result of lspci.

 

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00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 42) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 02) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801CAM IDE U100 Controller (rev 02) 00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon R250 [Mobility FireGL 9000] (rev 01) 02:04.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems LT WinModem (rev 02) 02:06.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02) 02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 42) 02:0e.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:0e.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 41) 02:0e.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 02)

[anyweb]

no wireless devices listed there at all,

 

try doing that again after pressing FN+F2 a few times to see does it change

 

also paste the results of lsusb here (maybe it's usb ?)

 

cheers

anyweb

[kmd]

Here's the result from lsusb:

 

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Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

 

I pressed Fn-F2 a few more times and still no change in lspci. There's a light on the wireless card that usually lights up when it's on and it hasn't turned on once. Thanks.

[anyweb]

ok still not seeing it

 

paste the results of /var/log/dmesg here please

 

you can use vi to view it (or gedit or nano)

 

cheers

anyweb

[kmd]

Here it is.

 

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Linux version 2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 (kojibuilder@xenbuilder2.fedora.redhat.com) (gcc version 4.1.2 20070502 (Red Hat 4.1.2-12)) #1 SMP Tue Jun 12 15:37:31 EDT 2007 BIOS-provided physical RAM map: sanitize start sanitize end copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000000000 size: 000000000009fc00 end: 000000000009fc00 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000000009fc00 size: 0000000000000400 end: 00000000000a0000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 00000000000e0000 size: 0000000000020000 end: 0000000000100000 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 0000000000100000 size: 000000001fed0000 end: 000000001ffd0000 type: 1 copy_e820_map() type is E820_RAM copy_e820_map() start: 000000001ffd0000 size: 0000000000020c00 end: 000000001fff0c00 type: 2 copy_e820_map() start: 000000001fff0c00 size: 000000000000b400 end: 000000001fffc000 type: 4 copy_e820_map() start: 000000001fffc000 size: 0000000000004000 end: 0000000020000000 type: 2 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009fc00 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000000009fc00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001ffd0000 (usable) BIOS-e820: 000000001ffd0000 - 000000001fff0c00 (reserved) BIOS-e820: 000000001fff0c00 - 000000001fffc000 (ACPI NVS) BIOS-e820: 000000001fffc000 - 0000000020000000 (reserved) 0MB HIGHMEM available. 511MB LOWMEM available. Using x86 segment limits to approximate NX protection Entering add_active_range(0, 0, 131024) 0 entries of 256 used Zone PFN ranges: DMA 0 -> 4096 Normal 4096 -> 131024 HighMem 131024 -> 131024 early_node_map[1] active PFN ranges 0: 0 -> 131024 On node 0 totalpages: 131024 DMA zone: 32 pages used for memmap DMA zone: 0 pages reserved DMA zone: 4064 pages, LIFO batch:0 Normal zone: 991 pages used for memmap Normal zone: 125937 pages, LIFO batch:31 HighMem zone: 0 pages used for memmap DMI 2.3 present. Using APIC driver default ACPI: RSDP 000F6160, 0014 (r0 COMPAQ) ACPI: RSDT 1FFF0C84, 0030 (r1 COMPAQ CPQ0057 8030420 CPQ 1) ACPI: FACP 1FFF0C00, 0084 (r2 COMPAQ CPQ0057 2 CPQ 1) ACPI: DSDT 1FFF0CB4, 5D6F (r1 COMPAQ EVON800 10000 MSFT 100000E) ACPI: FACS 1FFFBE80, 0040 ACPI: SSDT 1FFF6A23, 0106 (r1 COMPAQ CPQGysr 1001 MSFT 100000E) ACPI: SSDT 1FFF6B29, 0165 (r1 COMPAQ CPQMag 1001 MSFT 100000E) ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x1008 Allocating PCI resources starting at 30000000 (gap: 20000000:e0000000) Built 1 zonelists. Total pages: 130001 Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- you can enable it with "lapic" mapped APIC to ffffd000 (0140a000) Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done. Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done. Initializing CPU#0 CPU 0 irqstacks, hard=c077c000 soft=c075c000 PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 11, 8192 bytes) Detected 2193.051 MHz processor. Console: colour VGA+ 80x25 Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes) Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes) Memory: 511896k/524096k available (2066k kernel code, 11632k reserved, 1092k data, 240k init, 0k highmem) virtual kernel memory layout: fixmap : 0xffc56000 - 0xfffff000 (3748 kB) pkmap : 0xff800000 - 0xffc00000 (4096 kB) vmalloc : 0xe0800000 - 0xff7fe000 ( 495 MB) lowmem : 0xc0000000 - 0xdffd0000 ( 511 MB) .init : 0xc071b000 - 0xc0757000 ( 240 kB) .data : 0xc0604bc2 - 0xc0715cb4 (1092 kB) .text : 0xc0400000 - 0xc0604bc2 (2066 kB) Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok. Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 4388.24 BogoMIPS (lpj=2194121) 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: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000400 00000000 00000000 CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K CPU: L2 cache: 512K CPU: Hyper-Threading is disabled CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebf1ff 00000000 00000000 00003080 00000400 00000000 00000000 Intel machine check architecture supported. Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0. CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK. SMP alternatives: switching to UP code Freeing SMP alternatives: 14k freed ACPI: Core revision 20070126 ACPI: setting ELCR to 0200 (from 0c20) CPU0: Intel Mobile Intel® Pentium® 4 - M CPU 2.20GHz stepping 07 SMP motherboard not detected. Local APIC not detected. Using dummy APIC emulation. 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)=176 bytes sizeof(task_struct)=1376 bytes Time: 20:50:47 Date: 06/21/107 NET: Registered protocol family 16 ACPI: bus type pci registered PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xf031f, last bus=3 PCI: Using configuration type 1 Setting up standard PCI resources ACPI: Interpreter enabled ACPI: (supports S0 S3 S4 S5) ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [C047] (0000:00) PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) PCI quirk: region 1000-107f claimed by ICH4 ACPI/GPIO/TCO PCI quirk: region 1100-113f claimed by ICH4 GPIO Boot video device is 0000:01:00.0 PCI: Firmware left 0000:02:08.0 e100 interrupts enabled, disabling PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0 PCI: Bus #03 (-#06) is hidden behind transparent bridge #02 (-#03) (try 'pci=assign-busses') Please report the result to linux-kernel to fix this permanently ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C047._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C047.C048._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.C047.C059._PRT] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C1] (IRQs 5 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C2] (IRQs *5 10 11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C3] (IRQs 5 10 11) *0, disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C4] (IRQs 5 10 *11) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C5] (IRQs 5 *10 11) ACPI: Blank IRQ resource ACPI: Resource is not an IRQ entry ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C6] (IRQs) *0, disabled. ACPI: Blank IRQ resource ACPI: Resource is not an IRQ entry ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C7] (IRQs) *0, disabled. ACPI: Blank IRQ resource ACPI: Resource is not an IRQ entry ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C8] (IRQs) *0, disabled. ACPI: Power Resource [C158] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C16C] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C170] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C174] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C17D] (on) ACPI: Power Resource [C0E4] (on) ACPI: Power Resource [C1D9] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C1DA] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C1DB] (off) ACPI: Power Resource [C1DC] (off) Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 © Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init pnp: PnP ACPI: found 15 devices 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 8 of bridge 0000:00:1e.0 PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 0 of device 0000:02:0e.2 NetLabel: Initializing NetLabel: domain hash size = 128 NetLabel: protocols = UNLABELED CIPSOv4 NetLabel: unlabeled traffic allowed by default pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x0-0x9ffff could not be reserved pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0xe0000-0xfffff could not be reserved pnp: 00:00: iomem range 0x100000-0x1fffffff could not be reserved pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xffb00000-0xffbfffff has been reserved pnp: 00:0c: iomem range 0xfff00000-0xffffffff has been reserved pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x4d0-0x4d1 has been reserved pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x1000-0x107f has been reserved pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x1100-0x113f has been reserved pnp: 00:0d: ioport range 0x1200-0x121f has been reserved pnp: 00:0d: iomem range 0xffc00000-0xffc003ff has been reserved pnp: 00:0e: iomem range 0xd1800-0xd3fff has been reserved Time: tsc clocksource has been installed. PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:01.0 IO window: 3000-3fff MEM window: 80300000-803fffff PREFETCH window: 88000000-900fffff PCI: Bus 3, cardbus bridge: 0000:02:06.0 IO window: 00002800-000028ff IO window: 00002c00-00002cff PREFETCH window: 30000000-33ffffff MEM window: 34000000-37ffffff PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0 IO window: 2000-2fff MEM window: 34000000-39ffffff PREFETCH window: 30000000-33ffffff PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C4] enabled at IRQ 11 PCI: setting IRQ 11 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> Link [C0C4] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 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: 2825k freed apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac) apm: overridden by ACPI. audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled) audit(1185051047.175:1): 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 949CEA51B56F22EC - User ID: Red Hat, Inc. (Kernel Module GPG key) io scheduler noop registered io scheduler anticipatory registered io scheduler deadline registered io scheduler cfq registered (default) pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5 ACPI: Transitioning device [C1DD] to D3 ACPI: Transitioning device [C1DD] to D3 ACPI: Fan [C1DD] (off) ACPI: Transitioning device [C1DE] to D3 ACPI: Transitioning device [C1DE] to D3 ACPI: Fan [C1DE] (off) ACPI: Transitioning device [C1DF] to D3 ACPI: Transitioning device [C1DF] to D3 ACPI: Fan [C1DF] (off) ACPI: Transitioning device [C1E0] to D3 ACPI: Transitioning device [C1E0] to D3 ACPI: Fan [C1E0] (off) ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1] C2[C2] C3[C3]) ACPI: Processor [C000] (supports 8 throttling states) ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ1] (65 C) ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ2] (55 C) ACPI: Thermal Zone [TZ3] (16 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 © Dave Jones agpgart: Detected an Intel i845 Chipset. agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0xa0000000 Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled Time: acpi_pm clocksource has been installed. serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 3) is a NS16550A 00:02: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 16384K size 4096 blocksize input: Macintosh mouse button emulation as /class/input/input0 Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:06.0 [0e11:0057] Yenta: Enabling burst memory read transactions Yenta: Using CSCINT to route CSC interrupts to PCI Yenta: Routing CardBus interrupts to PCI Yenta TI: socket 0000:02:06.0, mfunc 0x012c1202, devctl 0x64 Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x04b8, PCI irq 11 Socket status: 30000006 Yenta: Raising subordinate bus# of parent bus (#02) from #03 to #06 pcmcia: parent PCI bridge I/O window: 0x2000 - 0x2fff cs: IO port probe 0x2000-0x2fff: clean. pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x34000000 - 0x39ffffff pcmcia: parent PCI bridge Memory window: 0x30000000 - 0x33ffffff usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev usbcore: registered new interface driver usbhid drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.6:USB HID core driver PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:C17A,PNP0f13:C17B] 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 TCP bic registered Initializing XFRM netlink socket NET: Registered protocol family 1 NET: Registered protocol family 17 Using IPI No-Shortcut mode Magic number: 15:493:852 drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0) Freeing unused kernel memory: 240k freed Write protecting the kernel read-only data: 820k USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v3.0 ohci_hcd: 2006 August 04 USB 1.1 'Open' Host Controller (OHCI) Driver ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C5] enabled at IRQ 10 PCI: setting IRQ 10 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.0[A] -> Link [C0C5] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ohci_hcd 0000:02:0e.0: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:02:0e.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 ohci_hcd 0000:02:0e.0: irq 10, io mem 0x80180000 usb usb1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 1-0:1.0: 3 ports detected Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 5.9, id: 0x336ab1, caps: 0x984793/0x0 serio: Synaptics pass-through port at isa0060/serio4/input0 input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /class/input/input1 input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /class/input/input2 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.1[b] -> Link [C0C5] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ohci_hcd 0000:02:0e.1: OHCI Host Controller ohci_hcd 0000:02:0e.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2 ohci_hcd 0000:02:0e.1: irq 10, io mem 0x80200000 usb usb2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(tm) as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(tm)] on usb-0000:02:0e.0-1 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:0e.2[C] -> Link [C0C5] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 ehci_hcd 0000:02:0e.2: EHCI Host Controller ehci_hcd 0000:02:0e.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3 ehci_hcd 0000:02:0e.2: irq 10, io mem 0x38000000 ehci_hcd 0000:02:0e.2: USB 2.0 started, EHCI 0.95, driver 10 Dec 2004 usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 usb usb3: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found hub 3-0:1.0: 5 ports detected SCSI subsystem initialized libata version 2.20 loaded. ata_piix 0000:00:1f.1: version 2.10ac1 PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:1f.1 (0005 -> 0007) ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C3] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> Link [C0C3] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.1 to 64 ata1: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x000101f0 ctl 0x000103f6 bmdma 0x00014440 irq 14 ata2: PATA max UDMA/100 cmd 0x00010170 ctl 0x00010376 bmdma 0x00014448 irq 15 scsi0 : ata_piix ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 117210240, hpa_sectors = 117210240 ata1.00: ATA-6: HTS548060M9AT00, MGBOA56A, max UDMA/100 ata1.00: 117210240 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 ata1.00: ata_hpa_resize 1: sectors = 117210240, hpa_sectors = 117210240 ata1.00: configured for UDMA/100 scsi1 : ata_piix usb 1-1: new low speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 3 ata2.00: ATAPI, max MWDMA2 usb 1-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice input: Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(tm) as /class/input/input4 input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 5-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(tm)] on usb-0000:02:0e.0-1 ata2.00: configured for MWDMA2 scsi 0:0:0:0: Direct-Access ATA HTS548060M9AT00 MGBO PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA SCSI device sda: 117210240 512-byte hdwr sectors (60012 MB) sda: Write Protect is off sda: Mode Sense: 00 3a 00 00 SCSI device sda: write cache: enabled, read cache: enabled, doesn't support DPO or FUA sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi disk sda scsi 1:0:0:0: CD-ROM HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4240N 0111 PQ: 0 ANSI: 5 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. input: PS/2 Generic Mouse as /class/input/input5 audit(1185051056.455:2): enforcing=1 old_enforcing=0 auid=4294967295 security: 3 users, 6 roles, 1823 types, 80 bools, 1 sens, 1024 cats security: 61 classes, 68337 rules SELinux: Completing initialization. SELinux: Setting up existing superblocks. SELinux: initialized (dev sda2, type ext3), uses xattr SELinux: initialized (dev usbfs, type usbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev debugfs, type debugfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev selinuxfs, type selinuxfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev mqueue, type mqueue), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev hugetlbfs, type hugetlbfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev devpts, type devpts), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev eventpollfs, type eventpollfs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev inotifyfs, type inotifyfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev futexfs, type futexfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev pipefs, type pipefs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev sockfs, type sockfs), uses task SIDs SELinux: initialized (dev cpuset, type cpuset), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev proc, type proc), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev bdev, type bdev), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev rootfs, type rootfs), uses genfs_contexts SELinux: initialized (dev sysfs, type sysfs), uses genfs_contexts audit(1185051056.955:3): policy loaded auid=4294967295 sd 0:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg0 type 0 scsi 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg1 type 5 cs: IO port probe 0x100-0x3af: excluding 0x378-0x37f cs: IO port probe 0x3e0-0x4ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0x820-0x8ff: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xc00-0xcf7: clean. cs: IO port probe 0xa00-0xaff: clean. Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306 sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20 sr 1:0:0:0: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 e100: Intel® PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2-NAPI e100: Copyright© 1999-2006 Intel Corporation ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:08.0[A] -> Link [C0C5] -> GSI 10 (level, low) -> IRQ 10 e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x80100000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:08:02:6B:6E:4E input: PC Speaker as /class/input/input6 iTCO_vendor_support: vendor-support=0 iTCO_wdt: Intel TCO WatchDog Timer Driver v1.01 (21-Jan-2007) iTCO_wdt: Found a ICH3-M TCO device (Version=1, TCOBASE=0x1060) iTCO_wdt: initialized. heartbeat=30 sec (nowayout=0) intel_rng: FWH not detected NET: Registered protocol family 23 parport: PnPBIOS parport detected. parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778), irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP] nsc-ircc, chip->init nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli) nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x3e8 nsc-ircc, Found chip at base=0x02e nsc-ircc, driver loaded (Dag Brattli) nsc_ircc_open(), can't get iobase of 0x3e8 pnp: Device 00:04 disabled. ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C2] enabled at IRQ 5 PCI: setting IRQ 5 as level-triggered ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.5[b] -> Link [C0C2] -> GSI 5 (level, low) -> IRQ 5 PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.5 to 64 intel8x0_measure_ac97_clock: measured 50609 usecs intel8x0: clocking to 48000 loop: loaded (max 8 devices) lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven). lp0: console ready sonypi: Sony Programmable I/O Controller Driver v1.26. SELinux: initialized (dev ramfs, type ramfs), uses genfs_contexts NET: Registered protocol family 10 lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions Mobile IPv6 ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [C0C1] enabled at IRQ 11 ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:00.0[A] -> Link [C0C1] -> GSI 11 (level, low) -> IRQ 11 [drm] Initialized drm 1.1.0 20060810 [drm] Initialized radeon 1.25.0 20060524 on minor 0 ACPI: AC Adapter [C132] (on-line) ACPI: Battery Slot [C135] (battery present) ACPI: Battery Slot [C134] (battery absent) No dock devices found. input: Power Button (FF) as /class/input/input7 ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF] input: Power Button (CM) as /class/input/input8 ACPI: Power Button (CM) [C193] input: Sleep Button (CM) as /class/input/input9 ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [C137] input: Lid Switch as /class/input/input10 ACPI: Lid Switch [C136] ibm_acpi: ec object not found ACPI: Video Device [C0CF] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no) device-mapper: ioctl: 4.11.0-ioctl (2006-10-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com device-mapper: multipath: version 1.0.5 loaded EXT3 FS on sda2, internal journal SELinux: initialized (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs), uses transition SIDs Adding 1534196k swap on /dev/sda3. Priority:-1 extents:1 across:1534196k SELinux: initialized (dev binfmt_misc, type binfmt_misc), uses genfs_contexts

[anyweb]

i cannot see any reference to wireless or radio anywhere in there, are you absolutely sure that

 

* wireless is enabled in the bios (enter the bios at boot time and check wireless options, make sure wireless is enabled/on)

* a wireless card is connected and on

 

?

[kmd]

I'm sure that the wireless card is installed and works properly. My problem is that I can't turn it on using the Fn-F2 key combination. I should have said that I have a dual boot system with Windows XP Professional installed as well.

 

The key combination works in Windows and I am able to use the wireless just fine. It's only in Linux that it simply won't turn on. Is there any information that I've forgotten that might helps as well? Thanks for the help so far.

[kmd]

This is interesting.

 

When I press Fn-F2, I get the following result with lsusb:

Code:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 004: ID 049f:0076 Compaq Computer Corp. Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical

 

If I press it again, here's the result:

Code:

Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000 Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:0039 Microsoft Corp. IntelliMouse Optical

 

So even though the light on the wireless card isn't coming on, something is happening when I press Fn-F2.