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dholbachhi guys07:03
dholbachmaybe you can help me debugging why the wifi kill switch on my IBM X40 does not work any more (intrepid)?07:03
dholbachI can load the ipw2100 module without problems, but I can't get the wifi LED to light up at all07:04
amitkdholbach: probably best to wait for rtg to show up. He has been following the led issues closely.07:05
dholbachamitk: it worked nicely like two days ago :)07:05
amitkhuh07:05
dholbachamitk: I can't get wireless to work at all07:05
amitkdholbach: does dmesg say anything about kill switch active?07:06
dholbachI dunno if it's a hardware thing or if it just broke in intrepid, but I don't know how to debug it07:06
dholbachdaniel@lovegood:~$ dmesg | grep -i kill07:06
dholbachdaniel@lovegood:~$ 07:06
dholbachmaybe I chose the wrong words... what I meant is that FN-F5 right now just toggles bluetooth on and off, it doesn't do anything regarding to wifi07:08
amitkdholbach: what does 'modprobe -r ipw2100; modprobe ipw2100' do in dmesg?07:09
amitkalso, find /sys/ -name "*kill*"07:10
dholbach+[ 6603.769069] ieee80211_crypt: unregistered algorithm 'NULL'07:10
dholbach+[ 6603.799013] ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'07:10
dholbach+[ 6603.811687] ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.1307:10
dholbach+[ 6603.811699] ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>07:10
dholbach+[ 6603.824297] ipw2100: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2100 Network Driver, git-1.2.207:10
dholbach+[ 6603.824309] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation07:10
dholbach /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill07:10
dholbach /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill/rfkill007:10
dholbach /sys/class/rfkill07:10
dholbach /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill007:10
dholbach /sys/module/rfkill07:10
amitkdholbach: what do the two rfkill0 files contain?07:11
dholbachhang on, they're directories :)07:12
dholbachamitk: http://paste.ubuntu.com/70342/07:15
dholbachseems they only contain bluetooth stuff :-/07:15
amitkhmm07:16
amitkdholbach: most times the Fn+F5 is tri-state or quad-state, BT WLAN 0 0, 0 1, 1 0 and 1 107:17
dholbach*nod*07:17
amitkhow does it work on yours?07:18
dholbachI think it's quad-state too07:18
amitkdholbach: and I guess you have cycled through all those states?07:23
dholbachyes07:23
dholbachcheck out my discussion with slangasek on #ubuntu-devel (just the last lines)07:24
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dholbachamitk: seems like my issue is not fixed yet :-/14:30
dholbach[12405.928353] ipw2100: ***** PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT !!!! 14:30
dholbach[12405.928386] ipw2100: ***** PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT !!!! 14:30
dholbach[12405.928401] ipw2100: ***** PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT !!!! 14:30
dholbach[13512.268457] ipw2100: eth1: write index mismatch14:30
dholbach[13512.270513] ipw2100: ***** PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT !!!! 14:30
dholbach[13512.516413] ipw2100: eth1: write index mismatch14:30
dholbach[21216.305009] ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_verify failed: -514:30
dholbach[21216.305072] ipw2100: eth1: Failed to power on the adapter.14:30
dholbach[21216.305077] ipw2100: eth1: Failed to start the firmware.14:30
dholbach[21309.349497] ipw2100 0000:02:02.0: PCI INT A disabled14:30
dholbachthis makes me guess that it's a hardware problem :-/14:30
rtgdholbach: 'PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT' certainly makes it seem like a HW error. Can you see the same result with a Hardy Live CD?14:32
dholbachrtg: the X40 does not have a CD drive :)14:33
amitkdholbach: we know for a fact now that your card has dust puppy issues14:33
dholbachrtg: I had this http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/img_2498.jpg this morning14:33
amitkdholbach: tried giving it a shower? :)14:33
dholbachamitk: I tried that like 2 years ago, when I emptied a glass of water into the keyboard while the laptop was running14:33
dholbachI think I need to live with the idea that the hardware is slowly dying14:34
amitkdholbach: you wouldn't happen to have a can of compressed air handy? It is useful to clean the motherboard...14:34
dholbachamitk: no, unfortunately not, but I could try it14:35
mjg59dholbach: An 1802 error means the card didn't even manage to give its PCI configuration data to the BIOS14:37
mjg59Or corrupted it in the process14:37
mjg59Take the card out, attempt to reseat it?14:38
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dholbachmjg59: did that this morning - it worked until now (6-7h)15:23
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mjg59dholbach: Mm. Might be a bad contact, or might be the card dying.15:28
dholbachmjg59: yeah, the machine is 4+ years old now :)15:29
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JodoogHi :)19:21
JodoogI know it was planned for 2.6.28 in order to get Lenovo's APS working without need for a patch...but has 2.6.28-rc4 put general disc protection directly into the libata driver?19:21

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