-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Welcome to the Debian side of things Fletcher:
What do all the kernel messages say about your device, ie dmesg? Run this below and it will take any MAC Addresses out that you surely don't want to show the world dmesg| sed s/MAC.*/CONFIDENTIAL/ > c751nr.dmesg upload c751nr.dmesg here: http://pastebin.ca/upload.php I just googled and it "seems" you have an atheros based card, which is a good thing so you don't have to mess around with ndiswrapper. Though I did find something that hints at a "module load order" issue. Forget ndiswrapper and let the kernel do what it should, you also have madwifi that you can use, but the new atheros drivers in Debian are superb(the ath5k driver includes madwifi). What do these show: pccardctl ident pccardctl ls pccardctl info Do this: pccardctl eject; pccardctl insert Then dmesg| tail -n 50 and put it on pastebin. If you don't see any errors just try using iwconfig to turn the radio in the card iwconfig ath0 txpower on After this try finding wifi with kismet or aircrack I'll help with usb later, just plug it all in and show the dmesg Bryan Fletcher Bonds wrote: | I've got Debian (Lenny) running pretty well on my Compaq Presario C751NR | laptop. I got this thing as a refurb and it came with Vista (yech). | | Problems I'm encountering though if anyone has suggestions are: | | Wireless: | There's a button on the laptop above the keyboard to turn the wireless | on/off - it's been in the off state since I dumped Windows. The Compaq | bios is all but useless (dumbed down to the point that no advanced | features are accessible). I can not for the life of me figure out how | to turn this back on. I have tried the ndiswrapper/madwifi solutions to | load a driver for it and it does show up in lspci, but it never shows up | ifconfig. I'm guessing it has something to do with the fact the button | is soft-offed somehow and if I could just toggle it on life would be | goodness. | | Webcam & camcorder | Both are USB devices and nothing at all happens when I plug either in. | Webcam: Creative Labs model VF0400 | Camcorder: Panasonic PV-GS320 | | For the Webcam, I found instructions for setting up xawtv, which I | followed and which seemed to install with all dependencies met and with | no problems, but when run: | | geeknix:/usr/src/modules# xawtv | This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.26-1-686-bigmem) | xinerama 0: 1280x800+0+0 | can't open /dev/video0: No such file or directory | v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway | v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory | v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory | v4l: open /dev/video0: No such file or directory | no video grabber device available | | If I use the hardware scan switch I get | | geeknix:/usr/src/modules# xawtv -hwscan | This is xawtv-3.95.dfsg.1, running on Linux/i686 (2.6.26-1-686-bigmem) | looking for available devices | port 84-99 | type : Xvideo, image scaler | name : Intel(R) Textured Video | | port 100-100 | type : Xvideo, image scaler | name : Intel(R) Video Overlay | | If I check w/ lsusb, it's there | | geeknix:/usr/src/modules# lsusb | grep -i creative | Bus 002 Device 002: ID 041e:4061 Creative Technology, Ltd | | Not sure where to go from here though. Suggestions? | | For the camcorder, I have no clue where to even start. | | Again though, it is there (per lsusb) | | geeknix:/usr/src/modules# lsusb | grep -i panasonic | Bus 004 Device 013: ID 04da:231d Panasonic (Matsushita) DVC Web Camera | Device | | Any leads, suggestions, wild ass guesses, whatever appreciated. THANKS! | | | - -- A healthy diet includes Linux, Linux and more Linux. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmuzTQACgkQh+MLjl5SKYRWDQCgljpHmkxsMYAGYMUZQZNNLZxu vJcAnj2DX5YWndbTuNq9LExQeAyrtXYx =Acgs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
