Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by machinebacon » Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:24 pm

put

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options iwlegacy led_mode=1
options ipw2200 led=1
into the /etc/modprobe.d/wlan.conf and then again

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modprobe -r iwlwifi && modprobe iwlwifi
No idea which driver is in use, so add ivan's and mine into the wlan.conf
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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by akts » Sun Oct 13, 2013 5:29 pm

How can I find which driver is in use.... me thinks its some broadcomXXX
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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by Titan » Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:04 pm

you could try

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 lspci -k 
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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by ivanovnegro » Sun Oct 13, 2013 6:20 pm

akts wrote:How can I find which driver is in use.... me thinks its some broadcomXXX
You already posted this:

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Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4220] (rev 05)
   Subsystem: Intel Corporation Dell Latitude D600 [8086:2722]

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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by machinebacon » Sun Oct 13, 2013 7:27 pm

not really, it's just the device but no information about the driver in use. Above there's b44, that's for the ethernet. No idea why it's not in the output...
Mine looks like

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04:02.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4220] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation IBM ThinkPad R50e [8086:2712]
	Kernel driver in use: ipw2200
If so (as our device numbers match), the ipw2200 stuff of the previous post should turn the LED off/on.

options ipw2200 led_mode=1

OR

options ipw2200 led_mode=0

as alternatives.
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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by akts » Mon Oct 14, 2013 1:21 am

Still no luck baconman :( . One more thing I found as a little itch is that even though roaster is given by default in vegeta I needed to separately install

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python-simplejson
python-webkit
Also, this doesn't have anything to do with the installation, but um can the wiki be also turned black?
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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:02 am

Of course Vegeta is a minimal system and shit like python and webkit (taking up over 50MB of ISO size) are not included. Minimal. No GTK.
If you install gtk and python and webkit, you are by far not minimal.

The wiki can be read in black:
in a terminal, open

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links2 linuxbbq.org/wiki
(Where is Roaster given 'as default', by the way? Thanks for the info, I was sure I only added no-GTK apps into the menu)
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Re: Help needed to get Inspiron working!!

Unread post by machinebacon » Mon Oct 14, 2013 4:05 am

Click here, by the way: http://www.linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.p ... =584#p7706
Or search for the wiki page of Vegeta. http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Vegeta

Especially read the 2nd and 3rd sentences in those links aloud.
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