#1 2016-09-27 22:45:53

Joe90

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Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

More of an annoyance than a bug and in a similar vien to this post:

https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic.php?id=2516

The wifi works fine, but the light does not come on at boot.

If I toggle "Fn F2" to turn wifi/bluetooth off and on the wifi light comes on. The bluetooth light comes on almost as soon as I start the laptop.

wifi controller / driver as follows:

~$ lspci -knn|grep -iA2 net
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX [14e4:170c] (rev 02)
	Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0189]
	Kernel driver in use: b44
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03:03.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection [8086:4223] (rev 05)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1021]
	Kernel driver in use: ipw2200

Any suggestions as to how to get light on at boot? Is BL using the right driver?

Thanks

Last edited by Joe90 (2016-09-27 22:47:18)

Horizon_Brave

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

Since you linked to the thread, did you try bringing in the broadcom-sta-dkms  driver mentioned in that thread?  It needs to be backported.

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Joe90

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

Will that work with the Intel Pro Wireless adapter? (Just worried about installing stuff and mucking up the system....)

Horizon_Brave

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

Ah, whoops, sorry I saw the broadcom device and intially thought that that was your wireless device. The  broadcom-sta-dkms  won't do anything then. 

The driver you have in use : https://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200#supported-ipw2200

Seems to fit the model... The only thing I can point you to is the wiki for Intel drivers here:

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use … rs/iwlwifi

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

LED control (ipw2200): If the LED does not switch on automatically:

echo options ipw2200 led=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.conf && modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200

https://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

Those commands should be run as root, either use

sudo su -c 'echo options ipw2200 led=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.conf && modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200'

or pass

sudo -i

to attain a root shell beforehand

Thread moved to Basic Help & Support

EDIT: OK, fine, I thought backticks made it more readable though...

And a little bit more l33t  8o

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-10-01 21:24:14)

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Horizon_Brave

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

LED control (ipw2200): If the LED does not switch on automatically:

echo options ipw2200 led=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.conf && modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200

https://wiki.debian.org/ipw2200

Those commands should be run as root, either use `sudo su -c 'echo options ipw2200 led=1 >> /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.conf && modprobe -r ipw2200 ; modprobe ipw2200'` or pass `sudo -i` to attain a root shell beforehand

Thread moved to Basic Help & Support

Sheesh HoaS  use code tags! You know better!        

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pvsage

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

EDIT: OK, fine, I thought backticks made it more readable though...

And a little bit more l33t  8o

...but we're not supposed to use backticks either.

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Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

^ Yes, it's a bad habit of mine, I used them in this commit message:

Colourise `ls` output

EDIT: https://github.com/Head-on-a-Stick/conf … 7eb671511e

Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2016-10-02 10:20:49)

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Joe90

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

Tried the fix from the Debian pages, unfortunately it made no difference, never mind...

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Dell 9300 Inspiron Wifi light

Tried the fix from the Debian pages

We should check that the fix has been applied properly before giving up.

Can we please see the content of /etc/modprobe.d/ipw2200.conf

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