[Tfug] Damned Intel WiFi (2200BG series mini-PCI) FIXED (sigh)

[Chris Hill]

http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/

This will get your leds and hotkeys set up how you like. I had issues 
with my wifi on my acer, too. When I went to sleep, it wouldn't resume 
the wifi. It turns out that the issue wasn't the hardware at all, just 
that silly button. A little bit of magic and its ready to go.

My bug report:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/115743

Peace
C

Jim March wrote:
> It was that Goddamn switch Acer put on the front panel.  Must have
> accidentially hit it.  It disables WiFi but it's not an "on off" it's
> a momentary.  In Windows there's a little LED light that tells you
> when the WiFi is "on" vs. "off"...doesn't work in Linux.
>
> Embarassing.
>
> Anyways.  Leaves me wondering how in hell that switch works, given
> that the stock Atheros card is outta there.  There must be a "disable
> wifi hardware" hardware interrupt or switch or something in the
> mini-PCI spec?  Guess they figured that was the maain use...
>
> Poop.
>
> :)
>
> Jim
>
> On 9/18/07, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> SIGH.
>>
>> OK.  Some may recall the saga to date.  Extreme short form: the
>> internal Atheros-based mini-pci WiFi card in my Acer laptop died of
>> "coke overdose" at one of the TFUG meets.  While selling an old
>> Fujitsu carcass for it's screen I noticed it had an internal mini-pci
>> Intel 2200BG series card - yanked that, dropped it in the Acer, worked
>> GREAT.
>>
>> Until now.
>>
>> Ubuntu (7.04) seems to see it.  It appears as an "Eth1" device same as
>> always, Eth0 (hardwire Ethernet) is present and working and if I put
>> my Atheros-based PCMCIA card in, it shows up as Ath0.
>>
>> When the Intel card worked, I could still insert the PCMCIA WiFi Ath0
>> device and under the Network Manager pull-down menu in Gnome it would
>> list all available SSIDs twice, grouped under the Atheros (PCMCIA) and
>> Intel cards.  It was kinda neat, because you could see at a glance how
>> much more signal strength the Intel card had.
>>
>> Those "group names" (Intel 2200BG and Atheros) are still listed as
>> usual, but with no SSIDs under the Intel card.  It's as if somebody
>> snipped the antenna cables, but since I'm hooking to a router one FOOT
>> away I figure it oughta work with no antenna at all?
>>
>> I popped the access plate, re-seated the Intel card and checked the
>> antenna connections.  It all looks fine.
>>
>> Somebody mentioned a second set of drivers (open source vs. the binary
>> blob I'm on now)?  I'm thinking I should swap them out, see if that's
>> it rather than the card mysteriously going "poof"?
>>
>> Any other advice?  This is a damned nuisance...
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>     
>
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