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

 

Code:

su -

 

paste the results of the following command here

 

Code:

lspci

[kmd]

Here's the result of lspci.

 

Code:

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.

 

Code:

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.