For me, in gentoo the blue light used to flicker with activity, now it stays on steady all the time...it's strange.
anyways, as far as I can tell on my system, ndiswrapper still sees the card with it turned off, so that button only shuts off the RF transceiver and doesn't power down the card or anything. I'm assuming that: You're using ndiswrapper, and `ndiswrapper -l` says driver and hardware present. 'iwlist wlan0 scan' hangs for a moment and then reports 'wlan0 no scan results' to indicate it does see your card but isn't seeing any access points. If that is the case, and I remember correctly having this problem about a year ago, there was an issue with one of the conf files I had to manually change to get it working. In /etc/ndiswrapper you should have a folder called bcmwl5a or something similar. Go into that folder, and you'll see quite a few .conf files. I've got 3 (and 2 additional sim links) but you may have more. You'll need to su root. Try this and see what happens. $ su then enter your root password. prompt will change> # cd /etc/ndiswrapper # cp bcmwl5a (or whatever) bcmwl5a.orig -rpv (this makes a copy of your conf files.) # cd bcmwl5a # gedit >From gedit open up each conf file one at a time. Start at the first one (because I don't know which one it is....) Open it up and go to the line for RadioState| and change the number. If it's 1 put a 0, if its a 0 put a 1. Save the file and repeat for all the conf files. (Note that some may not have that line, if it doesn't move on.) Once you've changed them all, quit gedit. #rmmod ndiswrapper # modprobe ndiswrapper # ndiswrapper -l (make sure it's still present.) # iwlist wlan0 scan If it's still failing, go back through and change the RadioStates all to 0, instead of flip-flopping them. (This is how mine currently are, but I've seen many different versions of these conf files.) Hopefully this will help.... Sorry for the long post. -Jason On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 13:42 +0200, hcl wrote: > Hi, > > Since i upgraded from ubuntu breezy to ubuntu dapper about 2 weeks ago, > the wireless button on my r3000 stopped responding, and is set to "off" > by default. > for a long time, i believed this button was entirely hardware > controlled, but, apparently not. > Whenever i boot into windows, windows activates the button and it works > normally again.. but when i reboot, the wireless gets set to off again, > with the button unresponsive.. > currently, this is crippling my ability to have wireless in linux, which > worked fine for over a year.. > My current guess is that some setting in the bios got messed up, which > is disabling the button on boot... > However, with the crippled bios hp puts on the r3000, i'm obviously not > able to do anything about it. > I was wondering whether there are any people on this list who are > suffering from the same problem, and whether anyone might be able to > help me solve this issue, and get my laptop to re-enable the button.. > > I already tried hp support, but obviously, they're about as helpful as > how far i can throw them.. > > HCl > _______________________________________________ > LinuxR3000 mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 > Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/ _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
