Laptop Power Monitor and Wireless Card not working

Ryuga Akikawa · 08-18-2006, 01:14 PM

Hello I am new to linux and cannot seem to get the power monitor and the wireless card to work, I performed a full installation of Slackware 10.2 and here are the specs of my Gateway 6518gz laptop:

Expansion Ports: 1 - Type I/II PC Card Slot CardBus Support

Processor Brand: Intel

Processor Class: Pentium® M Processor

Processor Speed: 1.7GHz

Additional Technologies: Intel Centrino Mobile Technology

Memory Type: DDR

Memory Size: 512MB

Memory Speed: DDR333 (PC2700)

Memory Slots: (Total) 2

Memory Slots: (Available) 1

Capacity: 60GB

Optical Drive Type: DVD±RW

Graphics Description: Integrated Graphics

GPU/VPU: Intel® Extreme 2 Graphics

Video Memory: up to 64MB Shared

Communications Description: Integrated Modem, Integrated LAN, Integrated Wireless LAN

Interface Type: Integrated Intel PRO Wireless LAN 802.11g (ipw2200bg)

Width: 14.09"

Height: 1.4"

Depth: 10.4"

Weight: 6.27 lbs

Display Type: Widescreen Ultrabright TFT WXGA

Viewable Screen Size: 15.4"

Any advice on how to resolve both problems would be a great help thanks in advance

Update I have figured out how to resolve both problems.

willysr · 08-19-2006, 05:54 AM

most of your problem will be solved if you install 2.6.x kernels. I have my WiFI, touchpad, and ACPI features activated after i boot to 2.6.x

onebuck · 08-19-2006, 09:39 AM

Hi,

I agree you can change your kernel to 2.6. I would suggest you to read some good online reference, check my sig.

You will get some feel for slack from these!

BTW, welcome to Slackware!

Ryuga Akikawa · 08-20-2006, 10:33 PM

Thanks for the welcome, really appreciate it, upgrading has taken care of a lot of the problems thanks

kstan · 08-21-2006, 05:09 AM

or you can download/compile ipw2200 modules + firmware. Then you need to concern about compile ieee80211, cryp for wep, wap and others...
quite troublesome..

trainee · 08-21-2006, 05:16 AM

I think you should check this out (for the wireless part )
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/...2200_Slackware

masonm · 08-21-2006, 07:33 AM

Install a 2.6 kernel and recompile it to include all of the acpi options. Install ndiswrapper for your wireless card.

Ryuga Akikawa · 08-21-2006, 01:51 PM

Ok I followed the instructions found here but the wireless still does not work, it does not even recognize eth0 or eth1. What do I need to do from here? It is telling me ipw2200 and agpgart modules are not found

trainee · 08-21-2006, 10:36 PM

I don't know. But I followed that guide in the past and I can see my wireless interface easily using the command "iwconfig"