Have found that FN+F10 works on the Advent 9315 using latest Knoppix live - but don’t know how/why. I also can’t install knoppix to HD.

Anybody got the answer

cheers

m

My Debian system totally freezes after doing “ifconfig wlan0 up”.

I’m using the last stable kernel at this date(2.6.28).

lspci output:
———————
02:05.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 20)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8185 IEEE 802.11a/b/g Wireless LAN Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 21
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at fb002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
Kernel driver in use: rtl8180
Kernel modules: rtl8180
———————

I will appreciate a lot if you have some clue or can help me to solve this.

Thanks in advance!

will there be update for 2.6.24-19 kernel?

In Windows XP/Vista the Wifi is “disabled” after a computer is “shut down” or hard switched off. To turn it on, I am required to press the Function Key in conjunction with F10 which brings on a little light on my laptop case and plays the “USB device inserted” wav. If the computer is restarted, hibernated or suspended, the wifi adapter will be on automatically as Windows Starts.

In Ubuntu 8.04, no amount of fiddling with drivers or following abovementioned instructions could get me past the first step of actually turning the bloody thing on. I suspect I’m overlooking something simple as I can’t find anyone else with the same problem anywhere!

I had no bother at all connecting with an external dongle. Unfortunately today I busted it when being a little too rough with my laptop ;(. Don’t know the model, but it’s an “Acer” brand USB 2.0.

I was almost prepared to just bite the bullet and buy another dongle, but my frequent clumsiness and anal desire to prove Ubuntu can do anything better than the p.o.s we call vista has left me unwilling to compromise.

Hopefully someone out there far more technically minded with me can help! Kind of strange going from being a (self proclaimed) advanced Windows user to a complete newbie!

Unfortunately, I’m having real difficulties following these instructions with Hardy Heron. Unlike most of the people here, I’m not running a Toshiba, but a Advent 9315, which is a relatively rare system apparantly and may not be produced outside England??

Anyway - I can’t seem to get past the first hurdle of getting the wifi to even turn on! Like others have mentioned, there seems to be some bizarre internal configuration which has the internal wireless adapter connected via an internal USB port.

Anyway, I have attempted to follow the instructions in all of three of the patches with no joy. As far as I can tell I’ve executed all the commands in the readme files (in sudo) but still cannot get past the initial hurdle of turning the bloody thing on.

I’m very new to Linux, so please forgive me for any stupid things I’ve overlooked. I have installed things from the prompt before however and I do think I’ve followed the instructions pretty closely.

Cheers in advance!

H

many many many thanks.

one point

– make sure to have libc6-dev package installed.