entroix1
November 5th, 2008, 03:14 PM
It has been one week since I updated my XPS M1530 laptop to 8.10 and i am facing a lot of problems. I tried searching the net for solutions but all the solutions come to a dead end.
1) One of my major problems is that my wifi is not accessible.Some of this turnouts could be helpfull.
entroix@entroix:~$ lspci | grep Network
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
entroix@entroix:~$ lshw -C network
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=192.168.0.4 latency=0 module=iwlagn multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
*-network DISABLED
entroix@entroix:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"*******"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: *********
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-45 dBm Noise level=-94 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.
entroix@entroix:~$
I tried many ways for resolving the problem but a face even more problem such as.
I try opening hardware drivers and the only hardware driver I get is nVidia drivers asking me to choose which one to activate, I choose , everything works fine, but still I get no other drivers.I don't know if this is how it is supposed to be! I already tried ndiswapper.Nothing works!! Anything I do leads me to the same point. NOTHING!!
2) Another major problem is when I try opening applications asking for the superuser password, such as synaptic package manager and software sources, the application never opens after I enter the correct password. I always have to open the application from the command line using sudo command so the application wont ask me for the authentication! any help here?
3) The problem that a lot of people solved but me! When you have wireless button off, system wont boot up! even recovery mode stucks at the point of searching wireless.I read a thread and people said that with linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic this problem will be solved, and indeed was solved for them. When I installed my 8.10 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic was already updated,but still I have this problem.any help here?
4) Sessions have changed. I cannot stop gnome-panel from restarting. Therefore I cannot use Avant Window Navigator in full as I used to on 8.04.
5) My sound buttons wont work ( still haven't searched for a thread based on that but it is still a problem I face with my XPS M1530 )
6) Fingerprint reader stopped working ( but still there and asks for my fingerprint )
7) I also have the impression that my software updates are not working at the moment due to problem number 2 because I haven't gotten any updates since I installed 8.10. Weird because before I had updates almost daily.
I hope I can find help on this issue and help others as well facing the same problems.
1) One of my major problems is that my wifi is not accessible.Some of this turnouts could be helpfull.
entroix@entroix:~$ lspci | grep Network
0b:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection (rev 61)
entroix@entroix:~$ lshw -C network
capabilities: bus_master cap_list logical ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=iwlagn ip=192.168.0.4 latency=0 module=iwlagn multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11abgn
*-network DISABLED
entroix@entroix:~$ iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"*******"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: *********
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality=100/100 Signal level:-45 dBm Noise level=-94 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
pan0 no wireless extensions.
entroix@entroix:~$
I tried many ways for resolving the problem but a face even more problem such as.
I try opening hardware drivers and the only hardware driver I get is nVidia drivers asking me to choose which one to activate, I choose , everything works fine, but still I get no other drivers.I don't know if this is how it is supposed to be! I already tried ndiswapper.Nothing works!! Anything I do leads me to the same point. NOTHING!!
2) Another major problem is when I try opening applications asking for the superuser password, such as synaptic package manager and software sources, the application never opens after I enter the correct password. I always have to open the application from the command line using sudo command so the application wont ask me for the authentication! any help here?
3) The problem that a lot of people solved but me! When you have wireless button off, system wont boot up! even recovery mode stucks at the point of searching wireless.I read a thread and people said that with linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic this problem will be solved, and indeed was solved for them. When I installed my 8.10 linux-headers-2.6.27-7-generic was already updated,but still I have this problem.any help here?
4) Sessions have changed. I cannot stop gnome-panel from restarting. Therefore I cannot use Avant Window Navigator in full as I used to on 8.04.
5) My sound buttons wont work ( still haven't searched for a thread based on that but it is still a problem I face with my XPS M1530 )
6) Fingerprint reader stopped working ( but still there and asks for my fingerprint )
7) I also have the impression that my software updates are not working at the moment due to problem number 2 because I haven't gotten any updates since I installed 8.10. Weird because before I had updates almost daily.
I hope I can find help on this issue and help others as well facing the same problems.