[07:03] <dholbach> hi guys
[07:03] <dholbach> maybe you can help me debugging why the wifi kill switch on my IBM X40 does not work any more (intrepid)?
[07:04] <dholbach> I can load the ipw2100 module without problems, but I can't get the wifi LED to light up at all
[07:05] <amitk> dholbach: probably best to wait for rtg to show up. He has been following the led issues closely.
[07:05] <dholbach> amitk: it worked nicely like two days ago :)
[07:05] <amitk> huh
[07:05] <dholbach> amitk: I can't get wireless to work at all
[07:06] <amitk> dholbach: does dmesg say anything about kill switch active?
[07:06] <dholbach> I dunno if it's a hardware thing or if it just broke in intrepid, but I don't know how to debug it
[07:06] <dholbach> daniel@lovegood:~$ dmesg | grep -i kill
[07:06] <dholbach> daniel@lovegood:~$ 
[07:08] <dholbach> maybe 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 wifi
[07:09] <amitk> dholbach: what does 'modprobe -r ipw2100; modprobe ipw2100' do in dmesg?
[07:10] <amitk> also, 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-1.1.13
[07:10] <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-1.2.2
[07:10] <dholbach> +[ 6603.824309] ipw2100: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[07:10] <dholbach>  /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill
[07:10] <dholbach>  /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/rfkill/rfkill0
[07:10] <dholbach>  /sys/class/rfkill
[07:10] <dholbach>  /sys/class/rfkill/rfkill0
[07:10] <dholbach>  /sys/module/rfkill
[07:11] <amitk> dholbach: what do the two rfkill0 files contain?
[07:12] <dholbach> hang on, they're directories :)
[07:15] <dholbach> amitk: http://paste.ubuntu.com/70342/
[07:15] <dholbach> seems they only contain bluetooth stuff :-/
[07:16] <amitk> hmm
[07:17] <amitk> dholbach: most times the Fn+F5 is tri-state or quad-state, BT WLAN 0 0, 0 1, 1 0 and 1 1
[07:17] <dholbach> *nod*
[07:18] <amitk> how does it work on yours?
[07:18] <dholbach> I think it's quad-state too
[07:23] <amitk> dholbach: and I guess you have cycled through all those states?
[07:23] <dholbach> yes
[07:24] <dholbach> check out my discussion with slangasek on #ubuntu-devel (just the last lines)
[14:30] <dholbach> amitk: 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 mismatch
[14:30] <dholbach> [13512.270513] ipw2100: ***** PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT !!!! 
[14:30] <dholbach> [13512.516413] ipw2100: eth1: write index mismatch
[14:30] <dholbach> [21216.305009] ipw2100: eth1: ipw2100_verify failed: -5
[14:30] <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 disabled
[14:30] <dholbach> this makes me guess that it's a hardware problem :-/
[14:32] <rtg> dholbach: 'PARITY ERROR INTERRUPT' certainly makes it seem like a HW error. Can you see the same result with a Hardy Live CD?
[14:33] <dholbach> rtg: the X40 does not have a CD drive :)
[14:33] <amitk> dholbach: we know for a fact now that your card has dust puppy issues
[14:33] <dholbach> rtg: I had this http://people.ubuntu.com/~dholbach/img_2498.jpg this morning
[14:33] <amitk> dholbach: tried giving it a shower? :)
[14:33] <dholbach> amitk: I tried that like 2 years ago, when I emptied a glass of water into the keyboard while the laptop was running
[14:34] <dholbach> I think I need to live with the idea that the hardware is slowly dying
[14:34] <amitk> dholbach: you wouldn't happen to have a can of compressed air handy? It is useful to clean the motherboard...
[14:35] <dholbach> amitk: no, unfortunately not, but I could try it
[14:37] <mjg59> dholbach: An 1802 error means the card didn't even manage to give its PCI configuration data to the BIOS
[14:37] <mjg59> Or corrupted it in the process
[14:38] <mjg59> Take the card out, attempt to reseat it?
[15:23] <dholbach> mjg59: did that this morning - it worked until now (6-7h)
[15:28] <mjg59> dholbach: Mm. Might be a bad contact, or might be the card dying.
[15:29] <dholbach> mjg59: yeah, the machine is 4+ years old now :)
[19:21] <Jodoog> Hi :)
[19:21] <Jodoog> I 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?