Toshiba Satellite A215-S7422 sound and wireless problem

bob3dan · 02-08-2008, 11:41 PM

I bought a Toshiba A215-7422 Laptop sound or wireless will not work and suggestions?

comprookie2000 · 02-09-2008, 02:47 AM

What distro? 32 or 64?

bob3dan · 02-09-2008, 10:21 AM

it is 32 bit version of fedora

comprookie2000 · 02-09-2008, 10:49 AM

I am pretty sure it is an atheros, but just to make sure post as root;

Code:

su -
<password>
lspci | grep Ethernet

then get the xp 32 here;
http://www.atheros.cz/
then
cd to where you have the file .inf;
again as root;

Code:

ndiswrapper -i whatever.inf
depmod -a
ndiswrapper -l
modprobe ndiswrapper
ifconfig <-- if your wired connection is eth0, then
ifconfig eth0 down
iwconfig <-- you should see wlan0
iwconfig wlan0 mode managed
iwconfig wlan0 essid whateveritisyouuse
iwconfig wlan0 key somekey
dhclient wlan0

Uncle_Theodore · 02-09-2008, 11:27 AM

I have the same laptop.
Wireless works with rtl8187b-modified-dist.tar.gz (just google for it), and sound works with the realtek-linux-audiopack
I basically just followed this how-to
http://www.datanorth.net/~cuervo/blo...te-a215-s7407/

bob3dan · 02-09-2008, 09:19 PM

Could you explain to me the steps you followed to get the sound working that page is kinda confusing to me

Uncle_Theodore · 02-10-2008, 01:28 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob3dan

Could you explain to me the steps you followed to get the sound working that page is kinda confusing to me

Well, I downloaded the package, it was realtek-linux-audiopack-4.07a.tar.bz2, unpacked it and ran ./install as root from inside the directory. Then, in /etc/modprobe.d/sound (in Slackware) wrote the following lines

Quote:

alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
alias sound-slot-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-hda-intel model=toshiba

In an ArchLinux installation on the same machine, the file to edit was
/etc/modprobe.conf

Rebooted. Unmuted front and pcm controls in alsamixer. Ran alsactl storeThat's pretty much it.

bob3dan · 02-10-2008, 05:26 PM

what about on the wireless?

outrosdiasvirao · 05-09-2008, 07:32 PM

Could you help me with a trick to reduce the brightness on this laptop? It's very bright. Thanks.

BobNutfield · 05-12-2008, 04:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bob3dan

what about on the wireless?

This is a link to a thread I have been working on with another poster. There have been mixed results using a driver for the 8187B USB internal wireless, but ndiswrapper worked fine for me with a Toshiba A210 with the same internal wireless.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...u-8.04-639797/

Bob

JeanBrownHarrel · 05-29-2008, 08:30 PM

only the modified realtek driver worked. I have both the one for Ubuntu kernel 2.6.22 and the modified jadams one for 2.6.24 kernel. I followed the instructions and it works flawlessly.

The only thing is that I have to crank up a root terminal and crank it up manually by typing in a couple of commands and then it works flawlessly.

Ndiswrapper was a miserable failure. It installed the Win98 driver but it would say the device was not present. So I uninstalled ndiswrapper as the miserable failure it is.

I got 10 times better results with the modified realtek8187b driver for linux.

Ndiswrapper did NOT live up to the hype. Totally useless and worthless, and a complete waste of my time.

By the way, I have a Toshiba Satellite A215-7437 and it is online now with the modified jadams realtek driver as I type this.

Also, my sound works great, out of the box, with Ubuntu 8.04-i386. Before, with 7.10 I had to manually configure the soundcard to work.

Also, still trying to figure out how to use Samba to access a Windoze Vista computer. It always wants a password and I can't figure out what password it needs. So I cannot network 2 computers. I have to put everything on a cd and run it to the other computer.

Any ideas how to use Samba?