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Old 03-19-2004, 07:03 PM   #1
rahuldabane
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Question Wireless+Fedora+Compaq Presario 2500 Problem

Hi,
I've installed Fedora (2.4.22-1.2115.npt1) on Compaq Presario 2500 Laptop which has got an in built wireless card (HP W 54g ....).
I cant get it working ..
Does Fedora have support for this or I'll have to wait???
Thanks in advance.
Rahul.
 
Old 03-23-2004, 05:37 PM   #2
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I believe this is a broadcom card. What is the output of lspci and or dmesg ?
 
Old 03-28-2004, 06:50 PM   #3
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Broadcom wireless
I have a Compaq Presario 2585 running FC1 and would like to get wireless up and running. Any suggestions/tips would be appreciated. Here is the output from my dmesg:

Linux version 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl (bhcompile@tweety.devel.redhat.com) (gcc version 3.2.3 20030422 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-6)) #1 Wed Feb 18 16:38:32 EST 2004
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009f800 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000000009f800 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000d8000 - 00000000000e0000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000000e4000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000001bf70000 (usable)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf70000 - 000000001bf7f000 (ACPI data)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf7f000 - 000000001bf80000 (ACPI NVS)
BIOS-e820: 000000001bf80000 - 000000001c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 000000002bf80000 - 000000002c000000 (reserved)
BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
0MB HIGHMEM available.
447MB LOWMEM available.
ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000
On node 0 totalpages: 114544
zone(0): 4096 pages.
zone(1): 110448 pages.
zone(2): 0 pages.
ACPI: RSDP (v000 PTLTD ) @ 0x000f6ab0
ACPI: RSDT (v001 PTLTD RSDT 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000000) @ 0x1bf782a7
ACPI: FADT (v001 ATI Salmon 0x06040000 ATI 0x000f4240) @ 0x1bf7ef64
ACPI: BOOT (v001 PTLTD $SBFTBL$ 0x06040000 LTP 0x00000001) @ 0x1bf7efd8
ACPI: DSDT (v001 ATI MS2_1535 0x06040000 MSFT 0x0100000e) @ 0x00000000
Kernel command line: ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi acpi=on rhgb
ide_setup: hdc=ide-scsi
Initializing CPU#0
Detected 2791.094 MHz processor.
Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
Calibrating delay loop... 5570.56 BogoMIPS
Memory: 449032k/458176k available (1474k kernel code, 8756k reserved, 1099k data, 136k init, 0k highmem)
Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
Buffer cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
Page-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU: After generic, caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Common caps: bfebf9ff 00000000 00000000 00000000
CPU: Intel Mobile Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz stepping 09
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.40 (20010327) Richard Gooch (rgooch@atnf.csiro.au)
mtrr: detected mtrr type: Intel
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20031002
PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd89b, last bus=2
PCI: Using configuration type 1
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using PIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: System [ACPI] (supports S0 S3 S4 S5)
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (00:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.AGPB._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] (IRQs 7 10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] (IRQs 7 *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] (IRQs *10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK4] (IRQs 10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] (IRQs 7 *11)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] (IRQs 10)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] (IRQs *5)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK8] (IRQs 10)
ACPI: Embedded Controller [EC0] (gpe 24)
schedule_task(): keventd has not started
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK7] enabled at IRQ 5
00:00:06[A] -> IRQ 5 Mode 1 Trigger 1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK6] enabled at IRQ 10
00:00:08[A] -> IRQ 10 Mode 1 Trigger 1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK3] enabled at IRQ 10
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK2] enabled at IRQ 10
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK5] enabled at IRQ 11
00:00:0a[A] -> IRQ 11 Mode 1 Trigger 1
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
PIC: IRQ (11) already programmed
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 10
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK0] enabled at IRQ 10
PIC: IRQ (10) already programmed
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: if you experience problems, try using option 'pci=noacpi' or even 'acpi=off'
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
Initializing RT netlink socket
apm: BIOS not found.
Starting kswapd
VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1
pty: 2048 Unix98 ptys configured
Serial driver version 5.05c (2001-07-08) with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ SERIAL_PCI ISAPNP enabled
ttyS1 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
PCI: Enabling device 00:08.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Redundant entry in serial pci_table. Please send the output of
lspci -vv, this message (10b9,5457,103c,0850)
and the manufacturer and name of serial board or modem board
to serial-pci-info@lists.sourceforge.net.
register_serial(): autoconfig failed
Real Time Clock Driver v1.10e
NET4: Frame Diverter 0.46
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:10.0
PCI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 00:10.0
ALI15X3: chipset revision 196
ALI15X3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2040-0x2047, BIOS settings: hdaMA, hdbio
ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2048-0x204f, BIOS settings: hdcMA, hddio
hda: TOSHIBA MK6021GAS, ATA DISK drive
blk: queue c0402f40, I/O limit 4095Mb (mask 0xffffffff)
hdc: SONY DVD+RW DW-P50A, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
hda: attached ide-disk driver.
hda: host protected area => 1
hda: 117210240 sectors (60012 MB), CHS=7296/255/63, UDMA(100)
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3
ide: late registration of driver.
md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
Initializing Cryptographic API
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
IP: routing cache hash table of 4096 buckets, 32Kbytes
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 32768 bind 65536)
Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0
Freeing initrd memory: 160k freed
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Journalled Block Device driver loaded
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 136k freed
i8253 count too high! resetting..
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
ACPI: AC Adapter [ACAD] (on-line)
ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT1] (battery present)
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1 C2, 2 performance states)
ACPI: Thermal Zone [THRM] (52 C)
usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs
usb.c: registered new driver hub
usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 16:46:39 Feb 18 2004
usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled
PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.0 (0010 -> 0011)
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2000, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.1 (0010 -> 0011)
usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0x2020, IRQ 10
usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 2 ports detected
usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver
PCI: Enabling device 00:0b.2 (0010 -> 0012)
ehci_hcd 00:0b.2: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0
ehci_hcd 00:0b.2: irq 11, pci mem dc881000
usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
ehci_hcd 00:0b.2: USB 2.0 enabled, EHCI 0.95, driver 2003-Jun-19/2.4
hub.c: USB hub found
hub.c: 4 ports detected
usb.c: registered new driver hiddev
usb.c: registered new driver hid
hid-core.c: v1.8.1 Andreas Gal, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>
hid-core.c: USB HID support drivers
hub.c: connect-debounce failed, port 1 disabled
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,2), internal journal
Adding Swap: 917272k swap-space (priority -1)
hub.c: new USB device 00:0b.1-1, assigned address 2
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Logitech USB-PS/2 Optical Mouse] on usb2:2.0
kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds
EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on ide0(3,1), internal journal
EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode.
ohci1394: $Rev: 1010 $ Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
PCI: Enabling device 00:0c.0 (0010 -> 0012)
ohci1394_0: OHCI-1394 1.1 (PCI): IRQ=[10] MMIO=[d0005800-d0005fff] Max Packet=[2048]
ieee1394: Host added: ID:BUS[0-00:1023] GUID[000d9d71a0cbcefb]
SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
hdc: attached ide-scsi driver.
scsi0 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices
Vendor: SONY Model: DVD+RW DW-P50A Rev: 1.8e
Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 02
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.11 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: CPU0 no microcode found! (sig=f29, pflags=8)
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
Attached scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
sr0: scsi3-mmc drive: 24x/24x writer cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
inserting floppy driver for 2.4.22-1.2174.nptl
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xdc988000, 00:0d:9d:8b:bd:9c, IRQ 10.
divert: freeing divert_blk for eth0
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (3579 buckets, 28632 max) - 292 bytes per conntrack
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 1.07+LK1.0.17, Sep 27, 2002
originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xdc98b000, 00:0d:9d:8b:bd:9c, IRQ 10.
eth0: link up.
Linux Kernel Card Services 3.1.22
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
PCI: Enabling device 00:0a.0 (0005 -> 0007)
Yenta IRQ list 00b8, PCI irq11
Socket status: 30000007
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: clean.
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x480-0x48f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
parport0: irq 7 detected
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
mtrr: no more MTRRs available
Trident 4DWave/SiS 7018/ALi 5451,Tvia CyberPro 5050 PCI Audio, version 0.14.10h, 16:46:58 Feb 18 2004
PCI: Enabling device 00:06.0 (0005 -> 0007)
trident: ALi Audio Accelerator found at IO 0x1000, IRQ 5
ac97_codec: AC97 Modem codec, id: CXT41 (Unknown)
gameport0: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device at pci00:06.0 speed 2593 kHz
i8253 count too high! resetting..
 
Old 03-29-2004, 05:36 AM   #4
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Post the output of lspci
what is listed under Network controller? If it is Broadcom then check out HCL at Broadcom
 
Old 03-29-2004, 03:39 PM   #5
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00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device cbb2 (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc PCI Bridge [IGP 340M]
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: ALi Corporation M5451 PCI AC-Link Controller Audio Device (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: ALi Corporation M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. OZ6912 Cardbus Controller
00:0b.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 50)
00:0b.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6202 [USB 2.0 controller] (rev 50)
00:0b.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 51)
00:0c.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB21 IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
00:10.0 IDE interface: ALi Corporation M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: ALi Corporation M7101 PMU
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M

Yes, it's the same...Broadcom Corporation BCM94306. This looks promising...I'll give it a go. Thanks.
 
Old 03-29-2004, 04:55 PM   #6
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Let me know if you have any questions.
 
Old 03-31-2004, 07:34 AM   #7
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WIFI is up!
I got it working using the ndiswrappers. See the link below.


http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/sh...hp?product=810
 
Old 03-31-2004, 09:57 AM   #8
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I went to the link and it says you are having some problems, is it working or are you still having some problems?
 
  


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