Some hardware on the Medion MD41300 laptop
 

I just got myself a nice Medion MD41300 laptop and threw the windows xp away and installed debian as the first thing... This was all nice and i got most the hardware running and compiled my own 2.6 kernel... So now i feel like a real pro... haha... but here's the remaining hardware that hasn't worked yet:

WLAN: i believe it's a prism card... it can do 54mbit/s which means it's a 802.11g and i think the driver for it is on prism54.org... i don't know how to install the prism54 driver, but i think i need some kind of thing to activate the WLAN in order to use it... Some laptops has a small lamp that needs to be turned on in order to use the WLAN... I think it's the same thing, but without the lamp and here it's all software controlled...

TV Tuner: I don't know which one it is... If someone can tell me how to check i would be glad... I've got the xawtv app installed... but so far it says "can't open /dev/video0: No such device"... i guess i haven't installed the right driver...

Infrared port: It could be nice to have the IR port working too, but this is not a major issue, yet... I don't know anything about this either...

The remote control: It has a remote control which uses a usb thingy to connect... It doesn't seem to use IR and i don't know much about it otherwise... This device is of the least importance...

I have the usbview output of both the TV Tuner and the remote control... but it's a bit huge, so i guess i'll wait to post it until asked for... maybe you just want bits of it... :)

I SO hope anyone can help!!! I've gotten everything else to work and if anyone with the same laptop or something similar wants help, just ask... preferrably in another thread, but i've got almost all else working, i'm pretty proud... :)

i also have a flash reader built in the laptop that i don't know how to install, but it's not as important as the other things... :)

Well, i got the prism driver installed... but i don't know how to get it running... on this page about a laptop of the same brand but a version older, he says that it has to be activated somehow: http://home.conceptsfa.nl/~revdmeer/...0/#wirelesslan

The problem is that i don't have a LED on my laptop indicating whether it's actually working... :(

When i compile the acerhk driver with my 2.6 kernel i get an error... I have no idea what is wrong... First here is the driver:

http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk/

And here is the error:

enigma:/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1# make
make newmodule
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1'
make -C /usr/src/linux-2.6.4 SUBDIRS=/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1 modules
make[2]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.4'
CHK include/linux/version.h
*** Warning: Overriding SUBDIRS on the command line can cause
*** inconsistencies
make[3]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
CC [M] /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.o
In file included from include/asm/smp.h:18,
from include/linux/smp.h:17,
from include/linux/sched.h:23,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:51:
include/asm/mpspec.h:6:25: mach_mpspec.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/asm/smp.h:18,
from include/linux/smp.h:17,
from include/linux/sched.h:23,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:51:
include/asm/mpspec.h:8: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:9: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:10: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:12: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:19: error: `MAX_APICS' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:20: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:20: error: conflicting types for `mp_bus_id_to_type'
include/asm/mpspec.h:8: error: previous declaration of `mp_bus_id_to_type'
include/asm/mpspec.h:22: error: `MAX_IRQ_SOURCES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:24: error: `MAX_MP_BUSSES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/mpspec.h:24: error: conflicting types for `mp_bus_id_to_pci_bus'
include/asm/mpspec.h:12: error: previous declaration of `mp_bus_id_to_pci_bus'
include/asm/mpspec.h:50: error: `MAX_APICS' undeclared here (not in a function)
In file included from include/asm/smp.h:20,
from include/linux/smp.h:17,
from include/linux/sched.h:23,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:51:
include/asm/io_apic.h:160: error: `MAX_IRQ_SOURCES' undeclared here (not in a function)
include/asm/io_apic.h:160: error: conflicting types for `mp_irqs'
include/asm/mpspec.h:22: error: previous declaration of `mp_irqs'
In file included from include/linux/smp.h:17,
from include/linux/sched.h:23,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:51:
include/asm/smp.h:71:26: mach_apicdef.h: No such file or directory
In file included from include/linux/smp.h:17,
from include/linux/sched.h:23,
from include/linux/module.h:10,
from /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:51:
include/asm/smp.h: In function `hard_smp_processor_id':
include/asm/smp.h:75: warning: implicit declaration of function `GET_APIC_ID'
/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:66:1: warning: "MODULE_VERSION" redefined
In file included from /home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:51:
include/linux/module.h:145:1: warning: this is the location of the previous definition
/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c: At top level:
/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.c:335: warning: `pbutton_fct' defined but not used
make[3]: *** [/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1/acerhk.o] Error 1
make[2]: *** [/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.4'
make[1]: *** [newmodule] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1'
make: *** [all] Error 2
enigma:/home/kb/acerhk-0.5.1#

well, i think i'm gonna give gentoo a try... i might have better luck there... I started off using redhat once, which was an rpm hell... then debian made my life easier... and now it looks like gentoo is good... any debian users with gentoo experience?

Well, thx anyways... Now i'm making this wiki page for people who has the md41300:

http://seedwiki.com/page.cfm?doc=md41300&wikiid=5150

I have the same problem with my Medion 40100 and Ubuntu (Debian) linux.
Has anybody solved this problem with another distro than Gentoo?
I tried to compile the Acer Hot Keys module but it doesn't work.

Thanks for any feedback you can give me.

Cheers

At last I solved the problem and I can now use the built-in wireless card.
It was just a matter of correct drivers.

Wlan on Medion MD41300 works fine now
 

Hello,
I have a Medion MD41300 with Suse Prof 9.1 and struggled for some time to get the Wlan working. I have now found the following document on the internet - http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/wavelan.html - and followed the instructions for my Ovislink WL-5400 PCM, PrismGt PCI WLan card with prism54 driver and the WLAN card is now active without usage of the special button and without the lighting of the green led.
Before I applied the above mentioned instruction I have updated the Suse 9.1 system with YOU, have downloaded the Intersil Prism54 driver and configured the Wlan card via Yast.

Especially the following commands have helped me a lot:
modprobe prism54
ifconfig
iwconfig
ifup
ifdown
ifstatus
in combination with the respective manual pages and executed as root.

After starting up Suse in wich the network cards are activateduse the following commands to shutdown both network cards eth0 and eth1. after that you start only thewireless network card and as last you check the status of that card. So execute the following commands at the prompt as Root User :
1 ifdown eth0
2 ifdown eth0
3 ifup eth1 (eth1 is my wireless card)
4 ifstatus eth1 (here you will see all the detail of wireless connection)

Return to KDE preferably as non-Root and try to access the internet


Regards, Frans

I now use ubuntu and it works like a charm from the default installation without any tweaking at all. It's detected perfectly on install.

The wiki i put up was disabled because i didn't update it much. I put a new one up here: http://md41300.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome

Feel free to update the wiki and now i would really like the flash card reader and the infrared to work. I haven't tried to get either much, but i hope some friendly soul with some spare time would try it out and get it to work.