On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 10:17 -0500, James Henry wrote: > can anyone send me a good link to reseach how to set up my wireless card > in the LFS environment > > my ubuntu setup reports this from iwconfig: > > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > ra0 RT2500 Wireless ESSID:"NETGEAR" > Mode:Managed Frequency=2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:09:5B:B0:94:D4 > Bit Rate:11 Mb/s > RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off > Link Quality=80/100 Signal level=-69 dBm Noise level:-197 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > > im running on a AMD Athlon XP-M averatec laptop with kernel version > 2.5.16 using the same configuration as the ubuntu side > > my main question is setting up the device for my wireless card, this > card is an internal one with a disable button by the power button on the > laptop. this button does not seem to work, if i could get this to work > to turn on and off my connection would also be nice! > > --thanks James P. Henry depends on your notebook, and may be you will find some tools ... why? hm you need some special acpi-interface (yes I know 2 times interface, but this IS right!) you should try google with: "linux [your notebook-vendor] [may be model] acpi tools" this should come up with something -- H CUH Rainer Peter Feller H
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