HP Nw8000 and wireless

staun · 06-02-2004, 11:46 AM

Anybody got any luck getting wireless to work on Nw8000?
I have installed the madwifi drivers, I can up and down the ath0 device, but it's like the radio isn't on. It scans and scans, but finds nothing. I have never managed to see an AP from Linux. It works in Wintendo.

I am proud to say that I got X running 1400x1050 with hw OpenGL support, full sound support, sound buttons working as well as "quick buttons" - but not WLan....

Soeren.

iwconfig says:
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lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

vmnet8 no wireless extensions.

ath0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:"something"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.432GHz Access Point: FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF
Bit Rate:1Mb/s Tx-Power:off Sensitivity=0/3
Retry:off RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:0/94 Signal level:-95 dBm Noise level:-95 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

dmesg says:
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ath_hal: 0.9.6.11
wlan: 0.7.3.1 BETA
ath_pci: 0.8.5.2 BETA
PCI: Guessed IRQ 11 for device 02:04.0
ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: turbo rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
ath0: 802.11 address: 00:0f:20:95:6f:d1
ath0: Atheros 5212: mem=0x90080000, irq=11

Look's like it's there, but something is missing.....

staun · 06-02-2004, 02:32 PM

I forgot to mention that I have a nice blue led on my laptop, and I have never seen it turned on in Linux.

Soeren.

norman001 · 07-10-2004, 06:32 PM

How did you get the video and sound to work? I tried with redhat 9 and it won't detect the lcd at all.

Any helpful pointers?

Thanks

hyllplan · 05-26-2005, 04:15 AM

I also have a nw8000.
I have installed the MADWIFI, I have not got around the office to test it, I will do so and we will see if it works, I just followed the INSTALL/README-files. I let you know how I did. I WANT THAT BLUE LED AS WELL! Im using Debian, did you do something to activate it?

Check out these sites:
http://fobie.net/nc8000/ (nc8000 is almost the same box)
http://www.tt-solutions.com/vz/hardware/hpnw8000/#acpi
http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/q.../11798_na.HTML (Specifications)

Please let me know if you have any good tips for nw8000 as it is quite new, problems that I have:
- I have tried the fglrx-driver (http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.sta...installer.html), but I cannot get it to work with Xinerama, I havent tried much though. Now I am using the RADEON driver, but with that one I do not get 3d-support... Besides from this everything works, oh, I havent tried the DV-out. And bluetooth.. I am note sure I have bluetooth on my box? I havent checked that, the only usage for me would be to edit the adress/phone-book on my mobile.

norman001 - Regarding the sound check out the sites above, I guess you just have to load a module or so, I do not now wich one as this worked for me out of the box. And regarding the video/resolution-thing; the easiest way for you would be to boot your nw8000 in to Knoppix (linux on bootable cd) and steel that XF86Config-4, or you could have mine, but it is a bit tweaked, not clean (Im using Xinerama, I removed those lines though):

Code:

        Section "Files"
        FontPath        "unix/:7101"                    # local font server, xfstt
        #FontPath       "unix/:7110"                    # local font server, xfs-xtt
        #FontPath       "unix/:7100"                    # local font server, xfs?

        # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these

        #FontPath        "/home/johan/wXPFonts"
        #FontPath        "/home/johan/Fonts"
        #FontPath       "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
        #FontPath       "/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/CID"
        #FontPath       "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi"
        FontPath        "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi"

EndSection

Section "Module"
        Load    "GLcore"
        Load    "bitmap"
        Load    "dbe"
        Load    "ddc"
        Load    "dri"  # Ska denna vara aktiverad, vad är dri?
        Load    "extmod"
        Load    "glx"
        Load    "int10"
        Load    "record"
        Load    "type1"
        #Load   "xtt"   # Enough with freetype, not both enabled at the same time
        Load    "speedo"
        Load    "freetype"
        Load    "vbe"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Generic Keyboard"
        Driver          "keyboard"
        Option          "CoreKeyboard"
        Option          "XkbRules"      "xfree86"
        Option          "XkbModel"      "pc105"
        Option          "XkbLayout"     "se"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier      "Configured Mouse"
        Driver          "mouse"
        Option          "CorePointer"
        Option          "Device"                "/dev/psaux"
        Option          "Emulate3Buttons"       "false"
        Option          "ZAxisMapping"          "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "graphic1"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Option          "MonitorLayout" "LVDS, TMDS"
        Screen 0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "graphic2"
        BusID           "PCI:1:0:0"
        Driver          "radeon"
        Screen 1
EndSection

# Monitors
Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "hp2335"
        Vendorname      "HWP"
        Modelname       "hp L2335"
        HorizSync       30-94
        VertRefresh     48-85
        #DisplaySize    495 310
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "lgp5429"
        #DisplaySize    304 228
        Option          "DPMS"
EndSection


Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "LaptopScreen"
        Device          "graphic1"
        Monitor         "lgp5429"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1400x1050" "1280x1024"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "ExternalScreen"
        Device          "graphic2"
        Monitor         "hp2335"
        DefaultDepth    24
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           8
                Modes           "1920x1200" "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           15
                Modes           "1920x1200" "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           16
                Modes           "1920x1200" "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
        SubSection "Display"
                Depth           24
                Modes           "1920x1200" "1600x1200"
        EndSubSection
EndSection

# Multi-head config
Section "ServerLayout"
        Identifier      "Default Layout"
        Screen 0        "LaptopScreen"
        #Screen 1       "ExternalScreen" RightOf "LaptopScreen"
        InputDevice     "Generic Keyboard"
        InputDevice     "Configured Mouse"
        #Option         "Xinerama" "true"
        #Option         "Clone" "off"
EndSection

DarkNecromancer · 05-26-2005, 10:49 AM

Hay, i dont know anything in relation to your problem but i know that my dell 700m wireless light never turns on but i get wireless so i dont know that the led has any correlation.

hyllplan · 05-26-2005, 11:27 AM

yes I know, I have the same experience, I just thought it was cool that "staun" manged to get his led lit

hyllplan · 05-27-2005, 03:12 AM

I have the same problem, iwlist scanning finds nothing, no time to look at it now, hope someone posts a solution

DaveAtFraud · 05-30-2005, 11:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by staun
Anybody got any luck getting wireless to work on Nw8000?
I have installed the madwifi drivers, I can up and down the ath0 device, but it's like the radio isn't on. It scans and scans, but finds nothing. I have never managed to see an AP from Linux. It works in Wintendo.
...
Look's like it's there, but something is missing.....

It would be helpful if you posted the specific WiFi card for your system. Try doing a lspci. You should see something like:

Code:

03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)

Your specific controller may or may not be the same. Different tricks for different wireless cards.