I have a Compaq V2000 laptop installed with Ubuntu 7.04 (AMD64).
My network card is Broadcom 4318
I cannot connect the laptop to internet through wireless network.
It seems that the system recognized my wireless network card but the
network card is not turned on.
(My friend has a dell laptop also installed with Ubuntu. If he turned
off the wireless by pressing Fn+F1 (a hotkey with Dell's laptop), then
the information he get is just like that on my computer.)
There is a wireless button on the keyboard that can switch the
wireless on and off under Windows XP system. The button has a little
blue light on it which indicates the state (on or off) of wireless.
Under Ubuntu, this little blue light is always off. However, I cannot
turn the light (and the wireless function) on by press the wireless
button.
Does anybody have the idea how to turn the wireless network on?
This figure shows the V2000 keyboard:
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/pr...alexplaunch/im...
The leftmost button on the top of the keyboard, which is to the left
of the orange power button and above the F5 key, is the "wireless
button".
Here is some more information:
ifconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:02:15:C5
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:11:98:A6
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:18256 (17.8 KiB) TX bytes:18256 (17.8 KiB)
iwconfig:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:02:15:C5
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:11:98:A6
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x4000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:240 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:18256 (17.8 KiB) TX bytes:18256 (17.8 KiB)
lspci:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB Host
Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 USB2 Host
Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 SMBus Controller (rev
11)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc Standard Dual Channel PCI
IDE Controller ATI
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-ISA Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 PCI-PCI Bridge
00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400
AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SB400 - AC'97 Modem Controller
(rev 02)
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/
Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/
Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/
Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/
Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Radeon
XPRESS 200M 5955 (PCIE)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
05:09.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus
Controller
05:09.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE
1394 Host Controller
05:09.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated
FlashMedia Controller
05:09.4 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments
PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
