[opensuse] HP pavilion dv6111 wireless wooes
Hi list, - perhaps slightly OT... - I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok. - wireless, sigh. - does anyone know what wifi-hardware is inside the box? - drivers? - links? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard +===============================================================+ Powered by openSUSE 10.2 (i586) Kernel: 2.6.18.2-34-default KDE: 3.5.5 "release 45" 10:30am oppe 1:12, 2 users, belastningennemsnit: 0,89, 0,42, 0,26 +===============================================================+ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok.
- wireless, sigh.
- does anyone know what wifi-hardware is inside the box? - drivers? - links?
Hi Verner what do you mean by hardware inside the box ? in the Pavillion ? -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqM590F77CaBDYxMRAgNLAJ0ekg14GD/pGDquYvC8Sp/bhRBtWgCbBAbF NzNr/Zye18w+SHHCvGFWFRI= =XkLp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Hello Verner, hello community ! Verner Kjærsgaard wrote / schrieb:
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok.
In the very beginning we had SuSE, since Novell is aboard it is called SUSE and nowadays the guys would like to see openSUSE. SCNR The standard -- open source -- driver for nvidia graphics chips "nv" does not support 3D graphics by default. If you prefer 3D graphics -- not a must -- you might need to install the closed source driver "nvidia". More details can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA
- wireless, sigh.
- does anyone know what wifi-hardware is inside the box? - drivers? - links?
The simple command "hwinfo --wlan" should give you (and us) some useful information. The lines containing "vendor:", "device:" and "driver:" are most useful. Another command to call could be "lspci -nn". -- Never give up ! Best regards / Gruß, Reinhard. "Software is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Hello Verner, hello community !
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote / schrieb:
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok.
In the very beginning we had SuSE, since Novell is aboard it is called SUSE and nowadays the guys would like to see openSUSE.
SCNR
The standard -- open source -- driver for nvidia graphics chips "nv" does not support 3D graphics by default. If you prefer 3D graphics -- not a must -- you might need to install the closed source driver "nvidia".
More details can be found here:
- wireless, sigh.
- does anyone know what wifi-hardware is inside the box? - drivers? - links?
The simple command "hwinfo --wlan" should give you (and us) some useful information.
The lines containing "vendor:", "device:" and "driver:" are most useful.
Another command to call could be "lspci -nn".
Hi Reinhard , I think you cut my lines off : Hi Verner what do you mean by hardware inside the box ? in the Pavillion ? looks as if Verner wants information on the wifi part ? or maybe I'm wrong -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqPEL0F77CaBDYxMRAjyvAJ41Gkfp5Esrp2YOu/sG7SrDDWDpvgCcDjZo kJF0+LIsgQ+69Rmix/DeznE= =JARK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Niels Øtergaard Kjær wrote / schrieb:
Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Hello Verner, hello community !
Verner Kjærsgaard wrote / schrieb:
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok. In the very beginning we had SuSE, since Novell is aboard it is called SUSE and nowadays the guys would like to see openSUSE.
SCNR
The standard -- open source -- driver for nvidia graphics chips "nv" does not support 3D graphics by default. If you prefer 3D graphics -- not a must -- you might need to install the closed source driver "nvidia".
More details can be found here:
- wireless, sigh.
- does anyone know what wifi-hardware is inside the box? - drivers? - links? The simple command "hwinfo --wlan" should give you (and us) some useful information.
The lines containing "vendor:", "device:" and "driver:" are most useful.
Another command to call could be "lspci -nn".
Hi Reinhard , I think you cut my lines off :
No. I replied directly to Verner's OP. So I didn't cut off your lines ...
Hi Verner what do you mean by hardware inside the box ? in the Pavillion ?
Well, I assume that he doesn't know which hardware is in his box ...
looks as if Verner wants information on the wifi part ?
Are you refering to my side-note regarding nvidia ? You are not very precise here ! If your comment refers to my additions to the nvidia controller you should place your comment in the right place ... And: What do you think you the command "hwinfo --wlan" delivers ?
or maybe I'm wrong
I don't think so ... -- Never give up ! Best regards / Gruß, Reinhard. "Software is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Niels Øtergaard Kjær wrote / schrieb:
Reinhard Gimbel wrote:
Hello Verner, hello community ! Verner Kjærsgaard wrote / schrieb:
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok. In the very beginning we had SuSE, since Novell is aboard it is called SUSE and nowadays the guys would like to see openSUSE. SCNR The standard -- open source -- driver for nvidia graphics chips "nv" does not support 3D graphics by default. If you prefer 3D graphics -- not a must -- you might need to install the closed source driver "nvidia". More details can be found here: http://en.opensuse.org/NVIDIA - wireless, sigh.
- does anyone know what wifi-hardware is inside the box? - drivers? - links? The simple command "hwinfo --wlan" should give you (and us) some useful information. The lines containing "vendor:", "device:" and "driver:" are most useful. Another command to call could be "lspci -nn". Hi Reinhard , I think you cut my lines off :
No. I replied directly to Verner's OP. So I didn't cut off your lines ...
Hi Verner what do you mean by hardware inside the box ? in the Pavillion ?
Well, I assume that he doesn't know which hardware is in his box ...
looks as if Verner wants information on the wifi part ?
Are you refering to my side-note regarding nvidia ? You are not very precise here ! If your comment refers to my additions to the nvidia controller you should place your comment in the right place ...
And: What do you think you the command "hwinfo --wlan" delivers ?
or maybe I'm wrong
I don't think so ...
ah ups see that the re: is missing. With Verner wondered if he wants information on his wifi-card. Like Verner have a HP Pavilion and haven't figured out how to make my wifi work yet, maybe Verner has the same aspect to solve. ran the su and your command hwinfo --wlan and interesting things shows up :)
linux-nklap:/home/niels # hwinfo --wlan 06: PCI 09.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.286] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320 Unique ID: JNkJ.H7HiZj5D5IC SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:09.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Compaq BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x0e11 "Compaq Computer Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x00e7 Revision: 0x02 Driver: "bcm43xx" Driver Modules: "bcm43xx" Device File: eth1 Features: WLAN Memory Range: 0xd0002000-0xd0003fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 10 (no events) HW Address: 00:90:4b:45:33:61 Link detected: no WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WLAN frequencies: 2.412e-05 2.417e-05 2.422e-05 2.427e-05 2.432e-05 2.437e-05 2.442e-05 2.447e-05 2.452e-05 2.457e-05 2.462e-05 2.467e-05 2.472e-05 2.484e-05 WLAN bitrates: 1.2e-05 1.8e-05 2.4e-05 3.6e-05 4.8e-05 7.2e-05 9.6e-05 0.000108 2e-06 4e-06 1.1e-05 2.2e-05 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap wpa-leap Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004320sv00000E11sd000000E7bc02sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: bcm43xx is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe bcm43xx" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
so will be interesting if Verner's install came as long as this. :) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqPbg0F77CaBDYxMRAl6XAJ9jC4TgM9j7b4ResqZI7ftzQ+gAfwCePF4G owTSs6GaFGo3rZH9N2zgjbg= =6jXh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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linux-nklap:/home/niels # hwinfo --wlan 06: PCI 09.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.286] UDI: /org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/pci_14e4_4320 Unique ID: JNkJ.H7HiZj5D5IC SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:09.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:09.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Compaq BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" Vendor: pci 0x14e4 "Broadcom" Device: pci 0x4320 "BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller" SubVendor: pci 0x0e11 "Compaq Computer Corporation" SubDevice: pci 0x00e7 Revision: 0x02 Driver: "bcm43xx" Driver Modules: "bcm43xx" Device File: eth1 Features: WLAN Memory Range: 0xd0002000-0xd0003fff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 10 (no events) HW Address: 00:90:4b:45:33:61 Link detected: no WLAN channels: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 WLAN frequencies: 2.412e-05 2.417e-05 2.422e-05 2.427e-05 2.432e-05 2.437e-05 2.442e-05 2.447e-05 2.452e-05 2.457e-05 2.462e-05 2.467e-05 2.472e-05 2.484e-05 WLAN bitrates: 1.2e-05 1.8e-05 2.4e-05 3.6e-05 4.8e-05 7.2e-05 9.6e-05 0.000108 2e-06 4e-06 1.1e-05 2.2e-05 WLAN encryption modes: WEP40 WEP104 TKIP CCMP WLAN authentication modes: open sharedkey wpa-psk wpa-eap wpa-leap Module Alias: "pci:v000014E4d00004320sv00000E11sd000000E7bc02sc80i00" Driver Info #0: Driver Status: bcm43xx is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe bcm43xx" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
so will be interesting if Verner's install came as long as this. :)
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You will have to use fwcutter to extract the firmware files from the windows driver bcmwl5. Those files will go into the /lib/firmware directory. Then bcm43xx will load the firmware into the wireless chip and it should become active. Currently bcm43xx only works with V3 firmware files, not V4 which may be in some of the later bcmwl5 files. If bcm43xx does not work, you will have to blacklist bcm43xx and use ndiswrapper. I have the dv6125 and use ndiswrapper (1.31) because bcm43xx cannot identify the broadcom chip (idenified as a dell 1390). You did not indicate if your running 32 or 64 bit. Remember that you will need the 64bit windows drivers for ndiswrapper if your running 64 bit. Clark -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:34, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok.
- wireless, sigh.
Should have been identified when you installed. I'd bet on Broadcom, although the HP site lists 3 different models, two of which also might have intel wireless. Best check on the XP side of the house. The info should be there. Older Broadcom 43xx are supported in the kernel if you can download the driver, and cut the firmware out of it. You should have the dv6111eu model. Go to the HP site, and search for it. Once you find the correct model, you can go from there. Mike -- Powered by SuSE 10.0 Kernel 2.6.13 X86_64 KDE 3.4 Kmail 1.8 5:37pm up 11 days 0:37, 4 users, load average: 1.25, 1.27, 1.18 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Lørdag 13 januar 2007 17:40 skrev Mike:
On Saturday 13 January 2007 10:34, Verner Kjærsgaard wrote:
Hi list,
- perhaps slightly OT...
- I just fired up a new HP Pavilion dv6111 with an AMD mobile Sempron CPU. - resized the XP partition and installed OpenSuSE10.2, no sweat. Display is fine (nVidia), fonts are ok.
- wireless, sigh.
Should have been identified when you installed. I'd bet on Broadcom, although the HP site lists 3 different models, two of which also might have intel wireless. Best check on the XP side of the house. The info should be there. Older Broadcom 43xx are supported in the kernel if you can download the driver, and cut the firmware out of it.
You should have the dv6111eu model. Go to the HP site, and search for it. Once you find the correct model, you can go from there.
Mike
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Hi and thanks to all in the list. I did a little digging and found it indeed was BroadCom as guessed. Unfortunately I had to deliver the HP Pavilion, which indeed is a dv6111eu model, to the user. They couldn't wait any longer. And will use it wired so far. I will, however, have to get back to this issue again when they get their wireless up. I'll get the machine back and they 'll want it to go wireless. So I'll get back in a week or two... -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Med venlig hilsen/Best regards Verner Kjærsgaard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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