wireless and modem connection on Acer Extensa 5220
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wireless and modem connection on Acer Extensa 5220
Hello,
I got an Acer Extensa 5220 about a week ago but until now I can not get the wireless connection working on mandriva 2008, although it worked on mepis 6.5 live cd by default
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
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Download the scanmodem tool and see what it reports about the modem.
For the nic I am not a Mandriva user but post loaded modules from this command.
/sbin/lsmod
Next info about the nic.
/sbin/lspci -v
And kernel version
uname -r
If fairly new kernel and mandriva has them enabled one may try using b43 module to see if you can get it going. Use the search tool here for searching distro and b43 for more post. If not working because of broadcomm tweak changes to the 43xx chipset then look into ndiswrapper and using the windows inf driver.
frankly I did not understand what you told me to do although I tried
should I post any output from the scanmodem and /sbin/lsmod (/sbin/lspci is not working) ?
the kernel version:2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv
anyway I got the wireless connection working using the Mandriva Control Center (all I needed was a file)
so how can I get the modem working?
(sorry for late feedback)
Distribution: Distribution: RHEL 5 with Pieces of this and that.
Kernel 2.6.23.1, KDE 3.5.8 and KDE 4.0 beta, Plu
Posts: 5,700
Rep:
scanmodem should tell you which type of modem because I would think it is a winmodem. Unless it is external serial or one of the rare real modems that exist I would say it is a winmodem. Best tool is scanmodem to find out if it can even be used in linux.
scanmodem should tell you which type of modem because I would think it is a winmodem. Unless it is external serial or one of the rare real modems that exist I would say it is a winmodem. Best tool is scanmodem to find out if it can even be used in linux.
Brian
Thank you Brian.
I do not know which file to post but I think ModemData.txt is the most appropriate
Code:
Only plain text email is forwarded by the Discuss@Linmodems.org List Server,
as HTML can contain viruses. Use as the email Subject Line:
YourName, YourCountry Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv on an i686 / kernel 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv
With this Subject Line cogent experts will be alerted, and useful case names left in the Archive.
YourCountry will enable Country specific guidance. Your contry's local Linux experts
can be found through: http://www.linux.org/groups/index.html
Responses from Discuss@Linmodems.org are sometimes blocked by an Internet Provider mail filters.
So in a day, also check the Archived responses at http://www.linmodems.org
-------------------------- System information ----------------------------
CPU=i686, Mandriva Linux release 2008.0 (Official) for i586
Kernel 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv on an i686 /
Linux version 2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv (lcapitulino@n5.mandriva.com) (gcc version 4.2.2 20070909 (prerelease) (4.2.2-0.RC.1mdv2008.0)) #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 04:17:10 CEST 2007
scanModem update of: 2008_03_01
There are no blacklisted modem drivers in /etc/modprobe* files
The Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) packages providing audio support,
also includes drivers for some modems. The ALSA diagnostics are written during
bootup to /proc/asound/ folders.
The /proc/asound/pcm file reports:
-----------------------
00-02: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : capture 2
00-00: ALC268 Analog : ALC268 Analog : playback 1 : capture 2
about /proc/asound/cards:
------------------------
0 [Intel ]: HDA-Intel - HDA Intel
HDA Intel at 0xfc300000 irq 22
USB modem not detected by lsusb
For candidate card in slot 00:1b.0, firmware information and bootup diagnostics are:
PCI slot PCI ID SubsystemID Name
---------- --------- --------- --------------
00:1b.0 8086:284b 1025:011f Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H
Modem interrupt assignment and sharing:
22: 276439 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, HDA Intel
--- Bootup diagnostics for card in PCI slot 00:1b.0 ----
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
=== Finished modem firmware and bootup diagnostics section. ===
=== Next deducing cogent software ===
The base of the UDEV device file system is: /dev/.udev
Versions adequately match for the compiler installed: 4.2.2
and the compiler used in kernel assembly: 4.2.2
linux-headers-2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv resources needed for compiling are not manifestly ready!
If compiling is necessary packages must be installed, providing:
kernel-source-2.6.22.9-laptop-1mdv
If a driver compilation fails, with message including some lack of some FileName.h (stdio.h for example), then
Some additional kernel-header files need installation to /usr/include. The minimal additional packages are libc6-dev
and any of its dependents, under Ubuntu linux-libc-dev
If an alternate ethernet connection is available,
$ apt-get update
$ apt-get -s install linux-kernel-devel
will install needed package
For Debian/Ubuntu related distributions, run the following command to display the needed package list:
Otherwise packages have to be found through http://packages.ubuntu.com
Once downloaded and transferred into a Linux partition,
they can be installed alltogether with:
$ sudo dpkg -i *.deb
Checking pppd properties:
-rwsr-xr-t 1 root root 317284 2007-08-21 00:57 /usr/sbin/pppd
In case of an "error 17" "serial loopback" problem, see:
http://phep2.technion.ac.il/linmodems/archive-sixth/msg02637.html
To enable dialout without Root permission do:
$ su - root (not for Ubuntu)
chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
or under Ubuntu related Linuxes
chmod a+x /usr/sbin/pppd
Checking settings of: /etc/ppp/options
lock
noauth
noipdefault
usepeerdns
In case of a message like:
Warning: Could not modify /etc/ppp/pap-secrets: Permission denied
see http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/bigarch/archive-sixth/msg04656.html
Read Modem/YourSystem.txt concerning other COMM channels: eth0 eth1
Which can interfere with Browser naviagation.
Don't worry about the following, it is for the experts
should trouble shooting be necessary.
==========================================================
Checking for modem support lines:
--------------------------------------
/device/modem symbolic link:
slmodemd created symbolic link /dev/ttySL0:
Within /etc/udev/ files:
Within /etc/modprobe.conf files:
Within any ancient /etc/devfs files:
Within ancient kernel 2.4.n /etc/module.conf files:
--------- end modem support lines --------
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