Hi
I've recently moved to an Asus V1J laptop and am having a few issues I'd really like a bit of help with (running Fedora 6)
1. Whilst I can 'see' the 3945 wireless ethernet (I've downloaded and installed the AT RPMs) I can't seem to get the wireless to turn on - and the indicator light that says it's on never lights up.
2. I can't get sound working at all. I briefly had it working on one channel, but that's all.
Anyone out there with experience that can offer assistance would be appreciated
Robert Hart wrote:
Hi
I've recently moved to an Asus V1J laptop and am having a few issues I'd really like a bit of help with (running Fedora 6)
- Whilst I can 'see' the 3945 wireless ethernet (I've downloaded and installed the AT RPMs) I can't seem to get the wireless to turn on
- and the indicator light that says it's on never lights up.
Look at /proc/acpi/asus/wled. If you write a "1" to this "file" it'll turn the LED on. This is my way of saying: If the software you're using knows about this LED, then it should do this automatically when it make a connection and write a "0" there when it detects the connection dropping. If the software you're using is generic enough, it may not know about this file and may not write to it. YMMV
AFA getting the wireless to work, I have a similar problem with my laptop which uses an ASUS motherboard (not sure which one though). It doesn't work reliably for me at my home. I'm still playing with it. I may have a number of 2.4GHz devices in my home which are lending to the problem. Once again, YMMV. And my fn-F2 key doesn't do squat (its supposed to dis/en-able the wireless).
Which packages are you using? ipw2100? ipw2200? ipw3945? iwlwifi?
Check you log files? Are you seeing this a lot?
kernel: ipw3945: Detected geography ABG (11 802.11bg channels, 13 802.11a channels)
I see *lots* of these in my logs when my wireless is *not* working.
- I can't get sound working at all. I briefly had it working on one channel, but that's all.
Which driver do you think you're using? My laptop uses snd-hda-intel. It came from my vendor configured and working, though I am having problems separating the headphones from the speakers. They are controlled via different sliders in the volume control. I think the default control in the gnome-panel applet controls the headphone volume, but I usually an using the laptop speakers. Make sure the channels you are using are un-muted and the sliders are up. Does it help to use the keyboard volume up keys? fn-F7 and fn-F8?
Anyone out there with experience that can offer assistance would be appreciated
This is my experience. I hope it helps you out.
Robert Hart wrote:
Hi
I've recently moved to an Asus V1J laptop and am having a few issues I'd really like a bit of help with (running Fedora 6)
- Whilst I can 'see' the 3945 wireless ethernet (I've downloaded and installed the AT RPMs) I can't seem to get the wireless to turn on
- and the indicator light that says it's on never lights up.
The first thing to check is if you have ipw3945d running. Two commands to run as root:
chkconfig --list ipw3945d service ipw3945d status
[root@toshiba init.d]# chkconfig ipw3945d --list ipw3945d 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off
[root@toshiba init.d]# service ipw3945d status ipw3945d (pid 2179) is running...
- I can't get sound working at all. I briefly had it working on one channel, but that's all.
Setting up the snd-hda-intel sound can be frustrating, because there are many configurations for it. If the "signature" for your configuration is not one of the known ones, you can end up with limited or no functionality. There is also a problem with the 1.0.14 cr1 ALSA package on some systems. My Toshiba laptop did not work with rc1, but works with rc3. If running "aplay -l" produces an error message instead of a list of hardware, then that is the problem.
You may also need something like this in /etc/modprobe.conf:
options snd-card-0 index=0 model=auto options snd-hda-intel index=0 model=auto
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