touchpad is not working

[Lmasters]

Thanks Alik!!!

[zaazu48]

hello,

were you able to get it to work..... because of this I went through a painful experience.... compiling a new kernel and it is still not working..... I think I didnt do some thing right

[mottalli]

Hi,
Thanks for the help, I tried the change in the kernel and it worked!
However, it looks like the new kernel doesn't detect my wireless card (eth1). Any suggestions on this? I'm using ubuntu feisty hoard 4.

PS: If the change doesn't work, you probably changed the wrong line since there are two lines that are very similar. You need to add the "return 0" line in the function i8042_check_aux().

[Lmasters]

Hi Mottalli

I tried the change in the kernel but doesn't worked... i dont know why?..

Can u put your manual here or write the correct code in the correct line?

Thanks..

[_Alik]

hi guys!
look on this page, I created quick HowTo for HP500 resolution and touchpad problems. I will post on more informations stepwise.
Good luck!

[mottalli]

_Alik:
Thanks A LOT for the help, I was able to run at 1200x800 perfectly

Now I'll see if I can make the damned wifi work...

[zaazu48]

How long can we wait... you know you did a great job.....

[mottalli]

For the wireless problem, I did a dmesg and I found this:

$ dmesg | grep ipw2200
[ 14.520000] ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.2.0kmprq
[ 14.520000] ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
[ 14.524000] ipw2200: Detected Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection
[ 14.572000] ipw2200: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2
[ 14.572000] ipw2200: Unable to load firmware: -2
[ 14.572000] ipw2200: failed to register network device
[ 14.572000] ipw2200: probe of 0000:02:04.0 failed with error -5

Looks like a problem with firmware? What could this mean?

[mottalli]

Hey guys!

I got the wifi card working! The problem is that after recompiling the kernel, the firmware for the card and other hardware is not copied to a directory with the same name as the new kernel.

In order to fix this, you just need to make a symlink in the /lib/firmware directory that points to the firmware files of the old kernel.

For example, my old kernel was called "2.6.20-8-generic" and my new kernel is called 2.6.20-ubuntu1hp500. In that case, I did the following (as root):

# cd /lib/firmware
# ln -s 2.6.20-8-generic 2.6.20-ubuntu1hp500

Reboot and voilá!

_Alik: feel free to post this info on your great page

[_Alik]

mottalli:
GREAT! WIFI IS WORKING NOW! Thanks for solution, I will post it on page and hope to put there more information to HP500.