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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
Distribution: Debian (Sarge), Red Hat, Ubuntu, Knoppix
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nw8000
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?
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):
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.
Distribution: CentOS primarily but I multi-boot my laptop to Ubuntu or Fedora Core 10 as needed
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Re: HP Nw8000 and wireless
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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.
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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:
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