Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 03:07 +0200, MartinG wrote: On 9/20/07, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things got much clearer to me when I ran: dellWirelessCtl -i Aha! This is what I get on my Dell Latitude X1 (using the ipw2200 driver): # dellWirelessCtl -i Libsmbios version : 0.13.10 dellWirelessCtl version: 0.3.0 Wireless Info not supported on this system. Wireless Switch Configuration not available on this system. BIOS Boot-time settings (new interface): Wireless_Switch_Cellular_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Cellular_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Bluetooth_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Bluetooth_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Wireless_LAN_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Wireless_LAN_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) WiFi_Locator_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) WiFi_Locator_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Cellular_Radio_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Cellular_Radio_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Bluetooth_Devices_Enable: 0 Bluetooth_Devices_Disable: 1 Wireless_LAN_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_LAN_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) BIOS Boot-time settings (old interface): Radio_Transmission_Enable: 1 Radio_Transmission_Disable: 0 Wireless_Device_Disable: 0 Wireless_Device_App_Control: 0 Wireless_Device_App_Or_Hotkey_Control: 1 So I guess NetworkManager should check for this, and stop spitting out all this messages. Ideally, the HAL device for a killswitch wouldn't _exist_ in HAL if it wasn't supported. Dan best regards, MartinG PS: I run a really old A02 BIOS on my X1, as the newer versions will lock the laptop at 600MHz after half an hour usage (normal is 1.1 GHz). I have contacted Dell about that problem, and given extensive debugging data, but got no response back. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
On 9/20/07, Brian Millett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Konstam escribío: Well I reinstalled libsmbios but am still getting the killswitch messages in slightly different form: --Sep 19 17:58:08 cyrus yum: Updated: httpd.i386 2.2.6-1.fc7 Sep 19 17:58:13 cyrus NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 Sep 19 17:58:44 cyrus last message repeated 5 times So now what? The dellWirelessCtl is part of the: # rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 package. I'm not sure I follow: I get the same kind of message, even though I have libsmbios-bin and libsmbios-libs installed (see my previous message in this same thread): # rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 # rpm -qa libsmbios\* libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 libsmbios-libs-0.13.10-1.fc7 # tail -n30 -f /var/log/messages Sep 20 21:41:06 x1 NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 Sep 20 21:41:11 x1 ntpd[10277]: synchronized to 195.139.204.141, stratum 3 Sep 20 21:41:13 x1 NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 Sep 20 21:41:44 x1 last message repeated 5 times Sep 20 21:42:46 x1 last message repeated 10 times ... Sep 20 22:06:33 x1 last message repeated 10 times And just to repeat the info from my previous message for clarity: # lsmod|grep dcdbas dcdbas 12257 0 # cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh touch /var/lock/subsys/local modprobe cpufreq-powersave modprobe dcdbas service haldaemon restart # uname -a Linux x1 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 13:47:21 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # rpm -q NetworkManager knetworkmanager NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7 knetworkmanager-0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 I have now also done a clean reboot after I installed libsmbios*. I would be happy to provide more info and try to debug this problem. Best regards, MartinG ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 22:15 +0200, MartinG wrote: On 9/20/07, Brian Millett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron Konstam escribío: Well I reinstalled libsmbios but am still getting the killswitch messages in slightly different form: --Sep 19 17:58:08 cyrus yum: Updated: httpd.i386 2.2.6-1.fc7 Sep 19 17:58:13 cyrus NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 Sep 19 17:58:44 cyrus last message repeated 5 times So now what? The dellWirelessCtl is part of the: # rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 package. I'm not sure I follow: I get the same kind of message, even though I have libsmbios-bin and libsmbios-libs installed (see my previous message in this same thread): # rpm -qf /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 Things got much clearer to me when I ran: dellWirelessCtl -i I found that most of the functionality of this program is not supported my BIOS. Maybe a new BIOS is needed. Run this program and see what you get. -- === Have you ever felt like a wounded cow halfway between an oven and a pasture? walking in a trance toward a pregnant seventeen-year-old housewife's two-day-old cookbook? -- Richard Brautigan === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
On 9/20/07, Aaron Konstam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Things got much clearer to me when I ran: dellWirelessCtl -i Aha! This is what I get on my Dell Latitude X1 (using the ipw2200 driver): # dellWirelessCtl -i Libsmbios version : 0.13.10 dellWirelessCtl version: 0.3.0 Wireless Info not supported on this system. Wireless Switch Configuration not available on this system. BIOS Boot-time settings (new interface): Wireless_Switch_Cellular_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Cellular_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Bluetooth_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Bluetooth_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Wireless_LAN_Control_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_Switch_Wireless_LAN_Control_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) WiFi_Locator_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) WiFi_Locator_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Cellular_Radio_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Cellular_Radio_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Bluetooth_Devices_Enable: 0 Bluetooth_Devices_Disable: 1 Wireless_LAN_Enable: (NOT SUPPORTED) Wireless_LAN_Disable: (NOT SUPPORTED) BIOS Boot-time settings (old interface): Radio_Transmission_Enable: 1 Radio_Transmission_Disable: 0 Wireless_Device_Disable: 0 Wireless_Device_App_Control: 0 Wireless_Device_App_Or_Hotkey_Control: 1 So I guess NetworkManager should check for this, and stop spitting out all this messages. best regards, MartinG PS: I run a really old A02 BIOS on my X1, as the newer versions will lock the laptop at 600MHz after half an hour usage (normal is 1.1 GHz). I have contacted Dell about that problem, and given extensive debugging data, but got no response back. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
Aaron Konstam escribío: I sometimes think I understand the killswitch problem with NM but obviously I don't. What is the implication of the following lines from /var/log/messages in F7? NM works for me but these messages make me think I am missing something. Sep 19 08:03:38 cyrus NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 19 08:04:14 cyrus last message repeated 6 times What is happening is the /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl is what is being called and it needs the dcdbas module to be loaded. Since it is not, then the message. Look here for libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7: http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ [bpm]$ rpm -ql libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7 /usr/bin/assetTag /usr/bin/dellBiosUpdate /usr/bin/dellLcdBrightness /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl /usr/bin/getSystemId /usr/bin/propertyTag /usr/bin/serviceTag /usr/bin/tokenCtl /usr/bin/verifySmiPassword /usr/bin/wakeupCtl /usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6 /usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/COPYING-GPL /usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/COPYING-OSL /usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/README /usr/share/doc/libsmbios-bin-0.13.6/getopts_LICENSE.txt I've added: modprobe dcdbas to /etc/rc.local so it gets loaded at boot. Then the messages not only go away, but toggling the wireless kill switch works. -- Brian Millett - [ Delenn (to Teronn), A Distant Star] Understanding is not required. Only obedience. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Brian, Brian Millett wrote: Aaron Konstam escribío: What is happening is the /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl is what is being called and it needs the dcdbas module to be loaded. Since it is not, then the message. Look here for libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7: http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ Amazing, I wasn't aware of this :-) Thank you for enlightening me. [bpm]$ rpm -ql libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7 Got it. I've added: modprobe dcdbas Did that! to /etc/rc.local so it gets loaded at boot. Then the messages not only go away, but toggling the wireless kill switch works. Unfortunately, no :-( ... Now I see the following error message: Sep 19 23:13:12 Xymnotune NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 And that is what keeps repeating. Any ideas of what I can do to get around it? thanks, Rogue libsmbios-libs-0.13.10-1.fc7 libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8WEoceS9IQvx51YRAhA1AJ9dOWYdoBF38DC9g4txX/XcCQ1eswCeIh9L VVKbJ3qMN7rwCDsmoT4wCOc= =gipz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
Rogue escribío: Hi Brian, Brian Millett wrote: Aaron Konstam escribío: What is happening is the /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl is what is being called and it needs the dcdbas module to be loaded. Since it is not, then the message. Look here for libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7: http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ Amazing, I wasn't aware of this :-) Thank you for enlightening me. [bpm]$ rpm -ql libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7 Got it. I've added: modprobe dcdbas Did that! to /etc/rc.local so it gets loaded at boot. Then the messages not only go away, but toggling the wireless kill switch works. Unfortunately, no :-( ... Now I see the following error message: Sep 19 23:13:12 Xymnotune NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 And that is what keeps repeating. Any ideas of what I can do to get around it? thanks, Rogue libsmbios-libs-0.13.10-1.fc7 libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7 1) make sure that the dcdbas is loaded by doing a 'lsmod | grep dcdbas' if not, then do 'modprobe dcdbas' 2) make sure that the killswitch is turned on in the bios. You do have a dell? I don't have bluetooth on my d820, but I had to make sure that the switch was enabled in the bios. 3) what does '/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl --version' return? Libsmbios version:0.13.10 dellWirelessCtl version: 0.3.0 ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list -- Brian Millett - [ Draal and Delenn, A Voice in the Wilderness I] Our world is changing, Delenn. I'm not sure when it began to change: perhaps the war, perhaps the death of Dukaht, perhaps the darkness was there all along and we refused to see it. 'If you're referring to the growing division between the religious and military castes...' That and more than that. There is a sense that we are lost, adrift. In the streets, in the temples, you can hear it in their voices, their manner: an anger just beneath the surface, a growing dissatisfaction, a self-involvement above the needs of others. It is not the same world in which I was born, Delenn. Not the same at all. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
Similar problem here, on a Dell Latitude X1: # uname -a Linux x1 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 13:47:21 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh touch /var/lock/subsys/local modprobe cpufreq-powersave modprobe dcdbas service haldaemon restart # lsmod|grep dcdbas dcdbas 12257 0 # tail /var/log/messages Sep 19 20:08:28 x1 NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 19 20:09:04 x1 last message repeated 6 times Sep 19 20:10:10 x1 last message repeated 11 times ... # rpm -q libsmbios-bin (not installed) So I went ahead and installed it: # wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash (what a stupid way to install a yum repo! Piping a web-page to bash... I actually saved the script, and had a brief look at it before I ran it.) # yum install libsmbios-bin # rpm -qa libsmbios\* libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 libsmbios-libs-0.13.10-1.fc7 Now, my /var/log/messages reads: Sep 19 20:49:07 x1 NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 Sep 19 20:49:38 x1 last message repeated 5 times Sep 19 20:50:40 x1 last message repeated 10 times So, I tried to restart 'haldaemon', and used the killswitch (Fn-F2) to turn wireless off and on, but the message didn't go away. I also tried restarting 'NetworkManager': # service NetworkManager restart But that didn't help either. I have NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7 knetworkmanager-0.2-0.1.svn20070815.fc7 Anything else to try? best regards MartinG http://folk.ntnu.no/gronslet/blog/fedora-7-on-a-dell-latitude-x1/ On 9/19/07, Rogue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Brian, Brian Millett wrote: Aaron Konstam escribío: What is happening is the /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl is what is being called and it needs the dcdbas module to be loaded. Since it is not, then the message. Look here for libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7: http://linux.dell.com/libsmbios/main/ Amazing, I wasn't aware of this :-) Thank you for enlightening me. [bpm]$ rpm -ql libsmbios-bin-0.13.6-1.fc7 Got it. I've added: modprobe dcdbas Did that! to /etc/rc.local so it gets loaded at boot. Then the messages not only go away, but toggling the wireless kill switch works. Unfortunately, no :-( ... Now I see the following error message: Sep 19 23:13:12 Xymnotune NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 And that is what keeps repeating. Any ideas of what I can do to get around it? thanks, Rogue libsmbios-libs-0.13.10-1.fc7 libsmbios-bin-0.13.10-1.fc7 NetworkManager-0.6.5-7.fc7 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG8WEoceS9IQvx51YRAhA1AJ9dOWYdoBF38DC9g4txX/XcCQ1eswCeIh9L VVKbJ3qMN7rwCDsmoT4wCOc= =gipz -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
Hi Brian, Brian Millett wrote: 1) make sure that the dcdbas is loaded by doing a 'lsmod | grep dcdbas' if not, then do 'modprobe dcdbas' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod | grep dcdbas dcdbas 12257 0 2) make sure that the killswitch is turned on in the bios. I think it is on, cause, I can turn it on/off using Fn + F2 You do have a dell? I don't have bluetooth on my d820, but I had to make sure that the switch was enabled in the bios. Yup, Dell D810 3) what does '/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl --version' return? Libsmbios version:0.13.10 dellWirelessCtl version: 0.3.0 Same here! Any more ideas? thanks, Rogue ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
Rogue escribío: Hi Brian, Brian Millett wrote: 1) make sure that the dcdbas is loaded by doing a 'lsmod | grep dcdbas' if not, then do 'modprobe dcdbas' [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lsmod | grep dcdbas dcdbas 12257 0 2) make sure that the killswitch is turned on in the bios. I think it is on, cause, I can turn it on/off using Fn + F2 You do have a dell? I don't have bluetooth on my d820, but I had to make sure that the switch was enabled in the bios. Yup, Dell D810 3) what does '/usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl --version' return? Libsmbios version:0.13.10 dellWirelessCtl version: 0.3.0 Same here! Any more ideas? Well, on the d820, the kill switch is on the side, a slide type switch. I found this info: http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-desktops/2007-March/000231.html I wonder if the dellWirelessCtl will only work on those who have a hardware switch. So maybe the real answer is to create your own /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl that does nothing so the error message goes away. I guess I'm fresh out of ideas. -- Brian Millett - [ Laurel Takeshima, The Gathering] We were talking the other day about how nobody's seen a Vorlon before and he said that according to legend, one human did see a Vorlon...he turned to stone. ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
On Wed, 2007-09-19 at 21:10 +0200, MartinG wrote: Similar problem here, on a Dell Latitude X1: # uname -a Linux x1 2.6.22.5-76.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Aug 30 13:47:21 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux # cat /etc/rc.local #!/bin/sh touch /var/lock/subsys/local modprobe cpufreq-powersave modprobe dcdbas service haldaemon restart # lsmod|grep dcdbas dcdbas 12257 0 # tail /var/log/messages Sep 19 20:08:28 x1 NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - Access type not supported Sep 19 20:09:04 x1 last message repeated 6 times Sep 19 20:10:10 x1 last message repeated 11 times ... # rpm -q libsmbios-bin (not installed) So I went ahead and installed it: # wget -q -O - http://linux.dell.com/repo/software/bootstrap.cgi | bash (what a stupid way to install a yum repo! Piping a web-page to bash... I actually saved the script, and had a brief look at it before I ran it.) Now I have really fouled UP: I have a dell Latitude D810 I installed the modprobe dcdbas I installed libsmbios using the wget above. /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl --version produces no meaningfull result. /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl does not exist. I have noting in BIOS that calls itself a killswitch but there is an option to turn wireless on and off using Fn-F2. I assume that is the software killswitch. I still get the killswitch related messages in /var/log/messages. Now I made a big mistake . I decided to re-install libsmbios . So I removed it and tried the wget method again to reinstall it. That did not work. I got a message this was already done and it will not be done again. So I haven't installed libsmbios and the errors are still there. What worries me is that somewhere along the line I got a message that libsmbios is needed by the haldaemon. Anny help out there? ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
Re: Explanation of killswitch related messages.
Now I have really fouled UP: I have a dell Latitude D810 I installed the modprobe dcdbas I installed libsmbios using the wget above. /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl --version produces no meaningfull result. /usr/bin/dellWirelessCtl does not exist. I have noting in BIOS that calls itself a killswitch but there is an option to turn wireless on and off using Fn-F2. I assume that is the software killswitch. I still get the killswitch related messages in /var/log/messages. Now I made a big mistake . I decided to re-install libsmbios . So I removed it and tried the wget method again to reinstall it. That did not work. I got a message this was already done and it will not be done again. So I haven't installed libsmbios and the errors are still there. What worries me is that somewhere along the line I got a message that libsmbios is needed by the haldaemon. Anny help out there? Well I reinstalled libsmbios but am still getting the killswitch messages in slightly different form: --Sep 19 17:58:08 cyrus yum: Updated: httpd.i386 2.2.6-1.fc7 Sep 19 17:58:13 cyrus NetworkManager: info Error getting killswitch power: org.freedesktop.Hal.Device.KillSwitch.NotSupported - dellWirelessCtl returned 4 Sep 19 17:58:44 cyrus last message repeated 5 times So now what? === Don't panic. === Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
