Hi :) On Tuesday 08 December 2009 14:37:52 Flavio Costa wrote:

Updated what, I mean, which packages?

The whole sstem: pacman -Sy pacman -Su I don't remember wich packages got updated, there were a whole bunch. I don't update every day so I can't say. Rafa

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 11:22 AM, Rafa Grimán wrote:

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Hi :)

Got a Lenovo T400 laptop with an Intel 5100 wireless card, lspci:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

Which was working until I updated my system.

Kernel version:

# uname -a Linux currotop 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Have the following packages installed:

# pacman -Q | grep -iE "(kernel|iw|wireless)" iwlwifi-5000-ucode 8.24.2.12-2 kernel-headers 2.6.31.5-1 kernel26 2.6.31.6-1 kernel26-firmware 2.6.31-1 wireless_tools 29-3

Modules that are loaded:

# lsmod | grep -i iwl iwlagn 132576 0 iwlcore 126496 1 iwlagn mac80211 179312 2 iwlagn,iwlcore led_class 5160 2 thinkpad_acpi,iwlcore cfg80211 104344 3 iwlagn,iwlcore,mac80211

dmesg says this:

# dmesg | grep -i iwl iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: setting latency timer to 64 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54 iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: irq 31 for MSI/MSI-X phy0: Selected rate control algorithm 'iwl-agn-rs'

Nothing weird in /var/log/messages.lo:

Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn: Intel(R) Wireless WiFi Link AGN driver for Linux, 1.3.27ks Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn: Copyright(c) 2003-2009 Intel Corporation Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Detected Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100AGN REV=0x54 Dec 8 14:01:25 currotop kernel: iwlagn 0000:03:00.0: Tunable channels: 13 802.11bg, 24 802.11a channels

Following the wiki:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wireless#iwl3945.2C_iwl4965_and_iwl50 00- series

ifconfig -a gives this:

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1E:65:CF:B5:7A BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-1E-65-CF- B5-7A-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 [NO FLAGS] MTU:0 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

I get the following errors:

# ifconfig wlan0 up SIOCSIFFLAGS: Unknown error 132

# iwlist wlan0 scan wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

Seems the firmware doesn't get loaded, but I have the firmware package installed as listed previously, checking:

# pacman -Ql iwlwifi-5000-ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/firmware/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/licenses/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/licenses/iwlwifi-5000-ucode/ iwlwifi-5000-ucode /usr/share/licenses/iwlwifi-5000-ucode/LICENSE

ls -lha /lib/firmware/iwl* -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 337K 2009-11-24 04:08 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 345K 2009-11-24 04:08 /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-5000-2.ucode

my /etc.rc.conf MODULES line holds this:

MODULES=(... blkcipher aes arc4 ecb cryptomgr crypto_algapi iwlagn ...)

I have been reading the forums and found these 2 links:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=77416

seems that okczenaj solved the issue reinstalling his system and installing: iw iwlwifi-5000-ucode wireless_tools packages

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=62532

seems iggyst00ge solved his issues by dropping Arch Linux 64

Is there any way to solve this issue without having to reinstall my laptop?

As I said before, my wireless was working until I updated. Don't know for sure which package broke wireless connectivity.

TIA

Rafa

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Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)

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Hi :) On Tuesday 08 December 2009 14:46:43 Giovanni Scafora wrote:

2009/12/8, Rafa Grimán :

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As I said before, my wireless was working until I updated. Don't know for sure which package broke wireless connectivity.

See here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=635942

This helped a lot. Installed rfkill: # rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes So the wireless and bluetooth are both hard blocked. Getting into the BIOS and/or Fn+F5 key combinations don't bring them back to life :( What I don't know is how the hardware got disabled/blocked. If anyone has any ideas on how to get the bluetooth and wireless up and running, I'd appreciate it. Remember Fn+F5 doesn't work and BIOS settings has nothing :( Reading the laptop's manual right now. If I get it to work, I'll let you know how :) Thanks for your help :) Rafa PS Yes I could install MS-Windows and the laptop's drivers'n'tools but: - I have no MS-Windows at home nor the drivers'n'tools - this is a company laptop and our company's MS-Windows is an image CD that deletes everything it finds on the HDD -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com rgriman@jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)

Hi :) On Wednesday 09 December 2009 21:44:59 Thomas Bächler wrote:

Rafa Grim�n schrieb:

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This helped a lot. Installed rfkill:

# rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes

If it is hard blocked, you cannot do anything about it from the software end, you have to find a hardware switch or a kernel/rfkill bug.

I checked all the hardware options: - BIOS (reloaded defaults, changed all the settings I could find, ...) - tried all the Fn+F# combinations and nothing BIOS says it's active and so's Bluetooth, but when Linux boots ... don't work :( It's not too bad for me because I never use Bluetooth and don't use wireless much, so I'm not that stressed out ;) Just mentioned this in case someone else has this NIC and has issues. I'll try a previous kernel version and see, but I can't tell for sure when that will be (a bit messed up right now). Thanks for your help everybody :) Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com rgriman@jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)

Hi :) On Thursday 10 December 2009 16:01:25 Damjan Georgievski wrote:

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# rfkill list 0: tpacpi_bluetooth_sw: Bluetooth Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes 1: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked: yes Hard blocked: yes

If it is hard blocked, you cannot do anything about it from the software end, you have to find a hardware switch or a kernel/rfkill bug.

I checked all the hardware options:

- BIOS (reloaded defaults, changed all the settings I could find, ...)

- tried all the Fn+F# combinations and nothing

You do know that all Thinkpads have a hardware switch to turn off all wireless (Bluetooth, Wifi, 3G), right?

On your T400 it's probably located ... checks .. couldn't find any docs .. in the front under the palm-rest.

http://www.spywaredrguide.com/VirtualDr/images/wireless_switch_01.gif

Nope. I'm new to the Lenovo Laptops. ... OK, no more hairs left on my head and I don't know any more swear words in English nor in Spanish. Yes, that was it. Now it works. 0:) Thanks all for your time and suggestions. Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com rgriman@jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)

Hi :) On Tuesday 08 December 2009 14:51:23 Giovanni Scafora wrote:

2009/12/8, Rafa Grimán :

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Which was working until I updated my system.

It seems that the problem is much more generic, as lots of people have problems with wireless interfaces and 2.6.31 kernels. iwlwifi-5000-ucode package works fine. Which kernel are you using before upgrading your system?

Don't remember. As I said in my previous post, I don't update daily and when I did this last time, a whole bunch of packages got updated so I can't really say 0:) I can't say it was really just the kernel update, maybe some other package too? Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com rgriman@jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)

Hi :) On Tuesday 08 December 2009 14:56:17 Thomas Bächler wrote:

Rafa Grim�n schrieb:

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Hi :)

Got a Lenovo T400 laptop with an Intel 5100 wireless card, lspci:

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection

Which was working until I updated my system.

Kernel version:

# uname -a Linux currotop 2.6.31-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 10 19:01:40 CET 2009 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Giovanni recently repackaged the iwlwifi-5000-ucode (and other firmware) packages as -any packages, but I just compared the iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode in our package with the one from Intel's homepage and they match.

Could you try if kernel26-2.6.32-1 and kernel26-firmware-2.6.32-1 from testing solve the issue? If yes, we don't have to care about what happens in 2.6.31, which will be gone from core in a week probably.

I'd rather not because this is the laptop I use for work, not my personal laptop so I'd rather not mess with it too much ;) If there's no other option, I can try, but it'll have to be in another free partition I've got and I'd have to reinstall everything. I prefer this and see if a fresh install fixes things. Maybe try a 32 bit Arch, the one I'm having issues is a 64 bit Arch. Rafa -- "We cannot treat computers as Humans. Computers need love." rgriman@skype.com rgriman@jabberes.org Happily using KDE 4.3.3 :)