Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:20:37PM +0200, Gabriele Pongelli wrote: > if you can't solve you problem try to set up all manually with iwconfig, > ifconfig and route (check its man's page for all trouble to how use > them)... I happen to be able to do this. In fact, I just did it with my new netwo

RE: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-16 Thread Gabriele Pongelli
> Thanks. I do not have that hardware, I have the 4328. Unfortunately, this > chip is explicitly NOT supported by the b43 driver, so I had to go with > ndiswrapper. (I'd prefer Free software end-to-end, but I'd also like to use > my computer.) if b43 driver doesn't support your hardware why are

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-15 Thread Carl Fink
I wrote: > > The frustrating thing is, I could buy a USB WiFi device for $20 and it would > > work. I'm refusing out of what amounts to sheer stubbornness. It turns out, though, that I *will* buy a USB WiFi device for $7 and use it. Trendnet TEW 424UB, which in my case contains a Realtek 8189.

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-13 Thread westniles46
Carl, I struggled with an HP6000 for a long time. By accident I learned that the wireless hotkey was really flakey. The blue LED was on permanently even wireless was off. Someone else wrote that their blue light never turned on. Sometimes, I need to push the wireless hot key for several seconds

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 04:13:19AM -0600, JD. Brown wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You appear to be doing Ndiswrapper right. Make sure you uninstall the > BCM43xx and the B43 driver from your repo completely, I would go as > far as manually deletin

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-11 Thread JD. Brown
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Long delay, but I haven't had a lot of time to work on this. Over the last > couple of days I've made some progress. > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:43:36PM +0200, Gabriele Pongelli wrote: > > > i've tried to use the kernel mod

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-05-10 Thread Carl Fink
Long delay, but I haven't had a lot of time to work on this. Over the last couple of days I've made some progress. On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:43:36PM +0200, Gabriele Pongelli wrote: > i've tried to use the kernel module bcm43xx on my vanilla 2.6.24.4 kernel but > it won't work... > if "lspci" t

Re: blackberry support (was Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458)

2008-04-22 Thread Nate Duehr
Rafael Varela Pet wrote: Hi, El lun, 21-04-2008 a las 15:02 -0400, Carl Fink escribió: Two, I use my RIM BlackBerry Curve as a tethered modem. I hear there's support for this in Linux these days. This one, I confess, I haven't even researched, but if anyone just happens to have a pointer to

Re: blackberry support (was Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458)

2008-04-22 Thread Rafael Varela Pet
Hi, El lun, 21-04-2008 a las 15:02 -0400, Carl Fink escribió: > Two, I use my RIM BlackBerry Curve as a tethered modem. I hear > there's > support for this in Linux these days. This one, I confess, I haven't > even > researched, but if anyone just happens to have a pointer to a HOWTO it > would

RE: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-04-21 Thread Gabriele Pongelli
Hi ! > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2008 15:02:09 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458 > > I'm attempting to get Debian Testing up and running on my Pavilion DV6100 > (DV6458). The installation was pretty easy, but there are two thing

Re: Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-04-21 Thread Franklin PIAT
Hello, On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 15:02 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > I'm attempting to get Debian Testing up and running on my Pavilion DV6100 > (DV6458). The installation was pretty easy, but there are two things that > aren't working. > > I can't get the kernel to recognize my Broadcom BCM4328 WiFi ch

Setting up HP Pavilion DV 6458

2008-04-21 Thread Carl Fink
I'm attempting to get Debian Testing up and running on my Pavilion DV6100 (DV6458). The installation was pretty easy, but there are two things that aren't working. One, I can't get the kernel to recognize my Broadcom BCM4328 WiFi chipset, even though it's theoretically supported. Nor can I get n