Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 14:41:05 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: Not quite sure what you mean by touch panel, I guess mine is not though. It is a Fn+something combination. Cheers, Tom My wifi switch is not a button, and there's no function key for it. I think it is activated through infrared light sensor or something similar to that. And thank you guys for replying. I think I'd better consider sell this HP and buy a new laptop instead. :P Regards, Tony
[arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:37:22 +0530, Jayesh Badwaik wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Moncef Baazet mob@gmail.com wrote: At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:26 +0800, mercator wrote: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), n And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN ? ? ? ? Soft blocked: yes ? ? ? ? Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN ? ? ? ? Soft blocked: no ? ? ? ? Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install). Hi, I don't know if this is gonna help, but when I first installed Arch I had the same problem. What solved it was bringing my wireless interface up manually after activating the wifi switch. So check out your `ifconfig` output. If you don't see your wireless interface bring it up. `ifconfig wlan0 up`, or whatever your wireless interface name is. Hi, Is not ifconfig deprecated now? It is probably not present on the OP's pc. There should be an equivalent command in the replacement. You would probably have to use the following command. I am not sure about the correctness, so please refer to the link. ip link set wlan0 up More information can be found at http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip Hi Moncef and Jayesh, Thank you for your advice. I've tried both 'ifconfig' and 'ip link set', with 'wlan0' and 'eth1', and both said 'no such device'. So I think it's still a wifi power switch thing. On Fri, 24 Feb 2012 12:25:03 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: I had a similar problem with another HP laptop. I was able to switch on the wifi by pressing the wifi switch when I was in BIOS, but YMMV. Cheers, Tom And thank you Tom. I tried pressing my wifi switch when in BIOS. But it is in a touch panel, so I cannot switch it on manually. And I wonder whether your wifi switch is in a touch panel or a seperate button? Thanks!
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:36 PM, mercator mercator2...@gmail.com wrote: And thank you Tom. I tried pressing my wifi switch when in BIOS. But it is in a touch panel, so I cannot switch it on manually. And I wonder whether your wifi switch is in a touch panel or a seperate button? Thanks! Not quite sure what you mean by touch panel, I guess mine is not though. It is a Fn+something combination. Cheers, Tom
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On 02/25/2012 03:41 PM, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:36 PM, mercator mercator2...@gmail.com wrote: And thank you Tom. I tried pressing my wifi switch when in BIOS. But it is in a touch panel, so I cannot switch it on manually. And I wonder whether your wifi switch is in a touch panel or a seperate button? Thanks! Not quite sure what you mean by touch panel, I guess mine is not though. It is a Fn+something combination. Cheers, Tom don't forget that you need b43-firmware from aur as well. -- Ionuț signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 14:41 +0100, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:36 PM, mercator mercator2...@gmail.com wrote: And thank you Tom. I tried pressing my wifi switch when in BIOS. But it is in a touch panel, so I cannot switch it on manually. And I wonder whether your wifi switch is in a touch panel or a seperate button? Thanks! Not quite sure what you mean by touch panel, I guess mine is not though. It is a Fn+something combination. Cheers, Tom IIUC he needs a GUI to press the button?! There's no real switch?! Anyway, I installed Ubuntu to get my Wi-Fi USB adapter supported, it still doesn't work as needed, but already is available, IOW my iPad is able to see the USB adapter of my Linux PC, but I don't get an Internet connection, or anything that is stable, instead of being connected and disconnected and connected and disconnected ... all the times. If I should get it working with Ubuntu, I'll compare it with my Arch Linux for troubleshooting. Wi-Fi is a PITA and I experienced Arch as more problematic as Ubuntu might be. I also don't have a Windows installed, resp. I've got an install for VirtualBox on Arch Linux with a Windows to run an iThingy as long as WLAN doesn't work. Wi-Fi seems to be an issue with Linux, I'm uncertain to install a Windows, I already hate to run it with VirtualBox. Regards, Ralf
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 14:18 +, Tom Gundersen wrote: On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: Wi-Fi seems to be an issue with Linux, I'm uncertain to install a Windows, I already hate to run it with VirtualBox. Seems you have had bad luck. Most wifi devices work well with Linux these days, of course assuming you have installed the right drivers / firmware, and that they are not blocked by the firmware which seems to be the issue in this thread. When it comes to usb adapters, the vendors have a tendency to do very evil things. In the past I have needed usb_modeswitch to be installed to make things work, but YMMV. -t Thank you, it's an USB device. Installing usb_modeswitch (and a restart) didn't change anything. For a vanilla install of Ubuntu the USB adapter's LED will flash, it doesn't for Arch Linux. I don't want to capture this thread. If needed I'll open a new thread, when I again start to get it working with Arch Linux. Regards, Ralf
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:26 +0800, mercator wrote: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), n And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install). Hi, I don't know if this is gonna help, but when I first installed Arch I had the same problem. What solved it was bringing my wireless interface up manually after activating the wifi switch. So check out your `ifconfig` output. If you don't see your wireless interface bring it up. `ifconfig wlan0 up`, or whatever your wireless interface name is.
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Moncef Baazet mob@gmail.com wrote: At Wed, 22 Feb 2012 23:35:26 +0800, mercator wrote: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), n And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install). Hi, I don't know if this is gonna help, but when I first installed Arch I had the same problem. What solved it was bringing my wireless interface up manually after activating the wifi switch. So check out your `ifconfig` output. If you don't see your wireless interface bring it up. `ifconfig wlan0 up`, or whatever your wireless interface name is. Hi, Is not ifconfig deprecated now? It is probably not present on the OP's pc. There should be an equivalent command in the replacement. You would probably have to use the following command. I am not sure about the correctness, so please refer to the link. ip link set wlan0 up More information can be found at http://linux.die.net/man/8/ip -- --- Cheers Jayesh Vinay Badwaik Electronics and Communication Engineering VNIT, INDIA -
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:35 PM, mercator mercator2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), I had a similar problem with another HP laptop. I was able to switch on the wifi by pressing the wifi switch when I was in BIOS, but YMMV. Cheers, Tom
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
Hello, ** mercator [2012-02-22 23:35:26 +0800]: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Sorry, if you find my answer a rude but did you use search engines? See wiki.archlinux.org? E.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless IMHO, proper command must be $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), Ah, broadcom and HP (6515b), something familiar. I remember a problem with HP notebook with broadcom wireless card about a year or two ago. The problem was solved by downloading kernel module source compiling then and installing (not Archlinux, Kubuntu). This Google returns me for broadcom linux bcm4311 http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install). --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- FORTRAN rots the brain. -- John McQuillin
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
Hi Vladimir, In fact I've tried 'lspci -vnn | grep 14e4' before, and this is the output, JUST one row: 10:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express [14e4:1693] (rev 02) If I just type 'lspci' I will not find anything related to wireless card either. About the kubuntu thing, did you mean this? http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1349025 I've read it before open this thread. My problem is just the same as that of stark222000: it's wifi card CANNOT be powered on, not that driver thing listed in archwiki or linux wireless. He solved it through booting into windows. But I don't have windows installed and I don't want to install it anymore. So I opened this thread as 'how to power on my wifi card' instead of 'my wifi card dose not work', which will of course be classified as a driver issue. And if I missed anything after my explanation, plz let me know. Thanks! On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 17:07:03 +0900, Vladimir Lomov wrote: Hello, ** mercator [2012-02-22 23:35:26 +0800]: Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) Sorry, if you find my answer a rude but did you use search engines? See wiki.archlinux.org? E.g. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Broadcom_wireless IMHO, proper command must be $ lspci -vnn | grep 14e4 My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), Ah, broadcom and HP (6515b), something familiar. I remember a problem with HP notebook with broadcom wireless card about a year or two ago. The problem was solved by downloading kernel module source compiling then and installing (not Archlinux, Kubuntu). This Google returns me for broadcom linux bcm4311 http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43 And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install). --- WBR, Vladimir Lomov -- FORTRAN rots the brain. -- John McQuillin
[arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
Hi guys, After switching from Linux Mint to Archlinux, my wireless card refused to show up in lspci. It DOES worked fine under Linux Mint, but Below is my output of 'lspci -vnn |grep Broadcom' : 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) My laptop is hp 6515b, with a touch panel for the toggle of wifi on/off etc. After a search in google I found the problem may be that the power of wifi has been shut down, and solution is to boot into windows and turn wifi on, because the touch panel will not work under Linux (as far as I know), And the I found a software named rfkill, hoping it will work. 'rfkill list' out put as follows : 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes After 'rfkill unblock all', I get: 0: hp-wifi: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: no Hard blocked: yes And still no wireless card detected. So my question is, is there any way to power the wifi on without booting into windows? (in fact, windows has diappeared from my laptop for 3 years, and there is no partition on my harddisk supporting windows install).
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
Your BIOS migt contain a wifi swich Sent from my phone. Sorry for any spelling mistakes
Re: [arch-general] Ways to power on broadcom bcm4311 wireless adaptor without booting into windows
Thanks Jesse, I'm afraid there's no wifi switch in BIOS. Actually, BIOS options related to LAN/WLAN are as follows: LAN powersaving: disable Embedded WLAN Device Radio: enable Network Interface Controller(LAN): enable LAN/WLAN Switching: enable Wake on LAN: enable I tried to toggle these options except the first one enabled/disabled, but still no luck. Any suggestions? On Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:42:50 +0200, Jesse Jaara wrote: Your BIOS migt contain a wifi swich Sent from my phone. Sorry for any spelling mistakes
