Toshiba Portege R700 / R705 Linux Hardware Compatibility Thread

Ive recently purchased a number of newly released Toshiba portege R700-15U business laptops. There was (and still is) very little linux related support information available due to it being a very new model so I have started to document the hardware compatibility under ubunutu 10.04. This is not intended to be a review or discussion of the laptop features, but a collation of compatibility info and fixes for this laptop under linux for owners or those looking to to buy one.

The R705 shares almost all the same components as the R700. It just lacks a number of features (bluetooth? fingerprint reader, express slot?, 5400rpm drive?) present on the R700 so there is no reason why it cant be tracked here also.

Feel free to post updates and I will keep this chart fresh.

Test OS: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx amd64. Alternate installer, for encrypted LVM setup. Apart from that it was a standard install.
Test Firmware: Initial Release firmware


Legend:
Works (maybe with a patch or fix)
A number of small bugs are present,
Could be a potential deal breaker for someone moving from windows to ubuntu



Webcam

• Hardware is detected
• Works in Chesse & Skype.
• Can adjust the resolution/brightness/settings correctly.

Suspend to RAM / Suspend to Disk

• The laptop goes in and out of sleep/hibernate cleanly.
• Wifi/LAN comes up automatically on resume.
• Fixed in 2.6.35 If you have an SD card mounted in the slot the laptop WILL NOT suspend to disk or RAM.. the screen blanks out with the fan running and requires a hard reset to get it back.
  
• FIXED enough (see acpi script in thread) Brightness is locked after resume. Brightness indicator moves up and down when changed, but doesn't affect the display levels.
  
• FIXED: Even when set to suspend to ram on idle the R700 is hibernating
  

Multi Card Reader

• Tested OK with an SD & SDHC card.
• Not an ubuntu specific issue, but I cant boot from the SD card

Express Slot

• Shows up in an lspci and is supported under linux
• Untested at the moment

Fingerprint reader

• Shows up in lspci, but isn't detected by pam_fprint_enroll or fprint_demo.
• No OS drivers exist for the device
  

Wifi / Bluetooth

• Intel wifi works 100%
• Full WEP/WPA/WPA2 support
• Wifi wont turn off/on via keyboard hotkey
• Wifi status LED will not turn off even with card manually disabled
• Bluetooth works, pairs, transfers files, connects to my bluteooth HID device
• Even when disabled, bluetooth seems to renable itself sometimes after a reboot or resume from suspend... still chasing this up. I suspect its still drawing power even when disabled
  

Hard Drive

• The hard drive accelerometer/impact sensor/protection system is not supported by hdapsd.

Touchpad

• Generally works well.
• Two finger scrolling greyed out via the ubuntu mouse settings but can be turned on easily by running a few synclient settings on login to X (I run them automatically on startup)

Code:

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#!/bin/bash
sleep 10
synclient VertTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient HorizTwoFingerScroll=1
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinW=5
synclient EmulateTwoFingerMinZ=48

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• Touchpad disable button (both keyboard shortcut & dedicated button) do NOT function
• Touchpad automatically disables itself when typing and required no setup

Keyboard

• 2 dedicated hardware buttons (email & web in windows i think) can be assigned to a function via keyboard shortcuts... but they both appear as the same button "Mod4+X"
• F1-F12 are the default action, with Fn being secondary
• Display switch hotkey works
• Most Fn modifiers work fine. Can vol+ & vol-, mute, suspend, numberpad etc
• Touchpad & Display switch Fn modifiers dont function, and are not programmable. Triggering them does not register any type of keypress. Suspect these are hardware set and will never be accessible.
• Wifi hotkey only turns Bluetooth module on and off. Could be fixed with some acpi scripting if needed
  

Sleep&Charge

• When enabled in the bois the esata/usb port will charge even when the laptop is not on. This works fine in Ubunutu and the laptop is not woken up.

NIC

• Throughput is in line with 1Gb port
• When using toshset tool to disable the NIC it cant be re-enabled without going into the bios

Display

• FIXED enough (see acpi script in thread) Display brightness cannot be changed after the laptop has resumed from a suspend to disk or RAM.

Video

• Intel video card is fully supported.
• Compiz is on by default and all desktop effects work great
• Full SD (720p) playback works 100%
• VGA & HDMI outputs are recognized
• VGA & HDMI outputs can be configured as secondary or mirrored devices and detect/display correctly.
• Have had this plugged into both a TV and LCD monitor and everything works flawlessly.
• After removing the HDMI cable the laptop display goes to full brightness and cant be lowered if you have resumed from a suspend!

Battery

• Ubuntu misreports battery capacity and charge levels.
• After a week of testing battery level predictions are still very poor, despite some error correction being performed
  
• "Ubuntu Power Statistics" (accessible from the battery icon) gives an average of 25% prediction accuracy for both charge and discharge cycles. Less than ideal :)
  
• Full charge predicts a 3½ - 4hr battery life... but when the laptop gets to 5mins remaining it can still last up to another 1hr.
  
• Battery reports that after a week of use that it is only capable of 90% original capacity. I suspect this is incorrect too.
  
• Despite these issues, the battery still gives 3½-4½ hours of use, its just difficult to predict when it will run out or when its fully charged.

Audio

• Sound playback through speakers works with a clean install of lucid (works in Maverick atm)
• HDMI audio output works. This can be switched on and off via volume panel settings
• Headphone & Mic jack do not function
• Inbuilt mic is muted by default, but works fine when unmuted via
• Fixed in 10.10 (2.6.35 kernel) I built alsa from source it fixed the headphone & mic jack issue, but after a kernel update it broke again. Running the script again fixed the issue again

For those interested here are some specs:

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connect404@pez:~$ lspci -v
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
    Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
    Kernel modules: intel-agp

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0007
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35
    Memory at 90000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4M]
    Memory at 80000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
    I/O ports at 3050 [size=8]
    Capabilities: [90] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [d0] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [a4] PCIe advanced features <?>
    Kernel driver in use: i915
    Kernel modules: i915

00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 11
    Memory at 94727000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [8c] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-

00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 33
    Memory at 94700000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128K]
    Memory at 94725000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    I/O ports at 3020 [size=32]
    Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [e0] PCIe advanced features <?>
    Kernel driver in use: e1000e
    Kernel modules: e1000e

00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 20)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at 94726c00 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
    Capabilities: [98] PCIe advanced features <?>
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 37
    Memory at 94720000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [60] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [70] Express Root Complex Integrated Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
    Capabilities: [130] Root Complex Link <?>
    Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
    Kernel modules: snd-hda-intel

00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 00004000-00004fff
    Memory behind bridge: 94600000-946fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000007c100000-000000007c2fffff
    Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
    Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=02, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 00005000-00005fff
    Memory behind bridge: 94500000-945fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000007c300000-000000007c4fffff
    Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
    Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=03, subordinate=04, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 00002000-00002fff
    Memory behind bridge: 92500000-944fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 0000000090400000-00000000923fffff
    Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
    Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=05, subordinate=05, sec-latency=0
    I/O behind bridge: 00006000-00006fff
    Memory behind bridge: 92400000-924fffff
    Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 000000007c500000-000000007c6fffff
    Capabilities: [40] Express Root Port (Slot+), MSI 00
    Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [90] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Capabilities: [a0] Power Management version 2
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
    Kernel modules: shpchp

00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 20)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 23
    Memory at 94726800 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2
    Capabilities: [58] Debug port: BAR=1 offset=00a0
    Capabilities: [98] PCIe advanced features <?>
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6) (prog-if 01)
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0
    Bus: primary=00, secondary=06, subordinate=06, sec-latency=32
    Capabilities: [50] Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 0
    Capabilities: [e0] Vendor Specific Information <?>
    Kernel modules: iTCO_wdt

00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06) (prog-if 01)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, 66MHz, medium devsel, latency 0, IRQ 34
    I/O ports at 3048 [size=8]
    I/O ports at 305c [size=4]
    I/O ports at 3040 [size=8]
    I/O ports at 3058 [size=4]
    I/O ports at 3000 [size=32]
    Memory at 94726000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=2K]
    Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [70] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [a8] SATA HBA <?>
    Capabilities: [b0] PCIe advanced features <?>
    Kernel driver in use: ahci
    Kernel modules: ahci

00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 10
    Memory at 94724000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
    Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [80] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit- Queue=0/0 Enable-

01:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
    Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device 0001
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
    Memory at 94600000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
    Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-
    Capabilities: [78] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [80] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Virtual Channel <?>
    Capabilities: [800] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
    Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
    Kernel modules: sdhci-pci

02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 6000 Series (rev 35)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1301
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 36
    Memory at 94500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
    Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
    Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
    Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
    Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
    Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number c0-c1-01-ff-ff-10-27-00
    Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
    Kernel modules: iwlagn

ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 8086
    Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0

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lsusb

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connect404@pez:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0930:0c05 Toshiba Corp.
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0bda:58f5 Realtek Semiconductor Corp.
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 08ff:168b AuthenTec, Inc.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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hdparm with the standard 320gb 7200rpm drive

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connect404@pez:~$ hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
 Timing cached reads:  1746 MB in  2.00 seconds = 873.13 MB/sec
 Timing buffered disk reads:  320 MB in  3.01 seconds = 106.36 MB/sec

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I read your post on notebookreview.com, thanks for starting this thread.

I've been waiting to get my hands on the R700-15Q for weeks but Toshiba are (understandably) feeding the market with higher spec'd models first.

Given the importance of Toshiba's "ECO mode" for regulating temp/fans/noise/power consumption in Windows, how does the R700 score on these points under Ubuntu?

Is the Toshset project deprecated or still of use on the R700?

Re BIOS: I can't find release notes for B1.30-EC1.30-WIN so it's impossible to know what's been tweaked. I'm a bit disappointed that BIOS updates are coming as Windows executables only.

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Originally Posted by anydroid

I read your post on notebookreview.com, thanks for starting this thread.

I've been waiting to get my hands on the R700-15Q for weeks but Toshiba are (understandably) feeding the market with higher spec'd models first.

Given the importance of Toshiba's "ECO mode" for regulating temp/fans/noise/power consumption in Windows, how does the R700 score on these points under Ubuntu?

Is the Toshset project deprecated or still of use on the R700?

Re BIOS: I can't find release notes for B1.30-EC1.30-WIN so it's impossible to know what's been tweaked. I'm a bit disappointed that BIOS updates are coming as Windows executables only.

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Good luck getting your R700, mine were delayed a couple of times and the supplier ended up getting Toshiba to dispatch them direct to me.

I dont have much to comment on regarding the ECO mode. Though from reports from the notebookreviews thread my battery life seems to be on par with Windows7 users so i can see any major discrepancy without all the toshiba windows tools running.

Had a look in my bios last night and it seems I already have 1.30. Not sure what toshiba is up too here...

AFAIK toshset uses HAL. I tried both the omnibook module and toshet tools on the laptop but they didnt do anything. Couldn't access extra hotkeys, turn bluetooth on/off etc. Sure there is more investigating to be done, but on the surface they are just too old to support this laptop.

Toshset does still mostly work on this laptop, not all functions have the desired effect, but its enough to get by.

Im sure youll like your R700, and please update the thread as you get linux issues resolved!

Thanks for the post! It has been very useful for some one as new to ubuntu as me :D I am using 10.04 on R700 S1330. Regarding the inbuilt microphone, it works for me! I got the mic sound after switched off the microphone mute.

Hi all!

What about the built-in UMTS Modem? Is anyone online using Ubuntu and 3G?

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Originally Posted by connect404

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UPDATE: Toshiba have just release an updated firmware B1.30-EC1.30-WIN . Its and exe so will require a non linux startup disk to install. Will update & test soon.

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1.40 has been released. Downloaded and installed it with Toshiba's update utility before wiping windows.

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Fingerprint reader

• Shows up in an lspci and is supported under linux
• Have not personally tested it, but can if someone really wants to know.
• Read unconfirmed reports that it can be configured.

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Shows up in lspci, but isn't detected by pam_fprint_enroll or fprint_demo.

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Keyboard

• Wifi, Touchpad & Display switch Fn modifiers dont function, and are not programmable. Triggering them does not register any type of keypress. Suspect these are hardware set and will never be accessible.
  

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Can we use one of the dedicated hardware buttons for Display switch?

Scenario: Laptop is connected to external display and laptop display is off. External display is disconnected from laptop, but laptop screen doesn't turn on. Need to switch display back to just laptop before disconnecting external display. Pressing display switch-button should help?

Thanks! This is such a useful post!

I have the 15U as well, and I love it -- apart from the headphones issue and I'm having battery life issues. Not sure what's up there, but I'm starting to think I have a dud battery. I'm only getting about 2.5 hours on Ubuntu and same on W7 even with Eco mode running. That's with nothing but tweetdeck, chrome and notepad/gedit open.

I'm going to try the bios update.

The script for the headphones/mic but I'm a bit worried. Not great with command line yet.

I've got an R705, and I think I've found a solution to the "Brightness is locked after resume" problem. It's a little kludgy, but it works.

I've added a script to /etc/pm/sleep.d directory called "99_dpms_post" (made it executable, since everything else in there is), with the following contents:

Code:

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#!/bin/bash

if [[ ${1} =~ (thaw|resume) ]] ; then

    test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs || exit 0

    . /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs
    . /usr/share/acpi-support/policy-funcs
    . /etc/default/acpi-support

    /usr/bin/toshset -bl on

    for x in /tmp/.X11-unix/*; do
        displaynum=`echo $x | sed s#/tmp/.X11-unix/X##`
        getXuser;
        if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" != x"" ]; then
            export DISPLAY=":$displaynum"
            chvt 1
            sleep .5
            /usr/sbin/vbetool post
            sleep .5
            chvt 7
            sleep .5
            . /usr/share/acpi-support/screenblank
            sleep .5
            su $user -c "xset dpms force on"
        fi
    done

fi

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Probably a few things in there that are not 100% necessary (for example, I didn't test whether all the "sleep" ones were, but I personally don't care at all about an extra few seconds on resuming... if anyone does, you're welcome to try removing them, I'd be interested to hear if it still works).

UPDATE: Better solution posted below. You should ignore this one; I'm leaving it here for the "historical record", and in case there is anything in it that might prove useful for solving some other problem now or in the future.

The alsa upgrade worked great -- now I can use headphones. That was driving me nuts.

Omerp --

How do I make that script for the resume bug executable? Or do I just create the file and save it?

JacquiOh: I've found a better, cleaner, and -- most importantly -- more reliable solution to the brightness-control-after-resume problem.

Here it is:

Create the files "tosh-brightness-down" and "tosh-brightness-up" in /etc/acpi/events/ (you can use, e.g., sudo cp <some-file-already-in-that-folder> tosh-brightness-up to copy an existing file from /etc/acpi/events/, that way all the permissions and so forth will be as they should be, and then replace the contents of the created files with the contents given below, using sudo <your favorite editor>).

tosh-brightness-down :

Code:

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event=hkey VALZ 00000001 00000140
action=/etc/acpi/tosh-brn-down.sh

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tosh-brightness-up:

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event=hkey VALZ 00000001 00000141
action=/etc/acpi/tosh-brn-up.sh

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Then, in a similar fashion, add the following two files to /etc/acpi/ (the parent directory of the one where the previous two files were).

tosh-brn-down.sh:

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#!/bin/sh
test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants || exit 0

. /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants

DeviceConfig

toshset -bl on

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tosh-brn-up.sh: (the file is identical to "tosh-brn-down.sh", but I think it's worth having them separate for good order, in case we find out their content should be differentiated somewhere down the line)

Code:

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#!/bin/sh
test -f /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants || exit 0

. /usr/share/acpi-support/key-constants

DeviceConfig

toshset -bl on

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Note: This solution assumes you have the toshset package installed on your system (sudo apt-get install toshset to install).

Reboot your system for the changes to take effect (or, you can just restart acpid and acpi-support).

This solution is non-ideal, in the sense that it only fixes changing brightness via the Fn-keys, not other ways of changing brightness (e.g., through gnome-power-manager). Ideally, there would be some way to hook onto *any* change in the brightness the system has established, and run toshset -bl on immediately (which is essentially what all this does, only just for Fn-key driven brightness events).

If anyone knows of any more general brightness-hook of this sort, please let me know.

The hard drive accelerometer/impact sensor/protection system is not supported by hdapsd.

Low battery runtimes are at least partially related to the fact that the current kernel doesn't seem to support the i3 i5 i7 super low frequency mode (SuperLFM).

Made a thread about it here
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1565599

i might try to upgrade the kernel once i figure how to do that:)

Cheers for the feedback!

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Originally Posted by samio chang

Thanks for the post! It has been very useful for some one as new to ubuntu as me :D I am using 10.04 on R700 S1330. Regarding the inbuilt microphone, it works for me! I got the mic sound after switched off the microphone mute.

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No probs, glad it helps... must have missed the mute for some reason, inbuilt mic works great now!

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Originally Posted by ouilsen

Hi all!

What about the built-in UMTS Modem? Is anyone online using Ubuntu and 3G?

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Dont quote me, but I did some initial investigations before choosing the non 3g option and it appears the model Toshiba use's is supported in the ubuntu kernel. Give us an lsusb dump with the module installed and we can investigate it for ya.

Fataki: Anything noticeable in the v1.4 release? Thanks for the updates.. Ill change my master list

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Originally Posted by JacquiOh

The script for the headphones/mic but I'm a bit worried. Not great with command line yet.

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Yeah its less than ideal, and sometimes after resuming from a suspend to ram indicator-sound-service goes nuts and needs a kill -9 to stop it running 100%. Maverick fixes the sound issues.. perhaps wait for the beta and just roll with that.

Oh, just saw you got it going... congrats

Omrep: Thanks for your efforts, trying it now. Brightness is my biggest issue with Ubuntu on this thing

UPDATE: V1.5 BIOS released on the 31/08

Cant seem to get bartpe to boot xp on this thing, so looks like I need to get XP setup on a spare drive to get this firmware updated.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by connect404

UPDATE: V1.5 BIOS released on the 31/08

Cant seem to get bartpe to boot xp on this thing, so looks like I need to get XP setup on a spare drive to get this firmware updated.

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You could also burn the Bios to CD (and boot with it in the drive ofc ;)) that should work as well.

Great thread everyone. I'm on my third Portégé: about to install Xubuntu & LXDE on a R205-S209 that's still running WinXP Pro, but the R700/705 will probably be my fourth.

Some of the Fn enabled Hotkey functions have been a troublespot since I first tried Knoppix 3.7 in 2004/5. I'm guessing the dedicated buttons for Toshiba Assist and Toshiba Presentation on the R205 won't work either.

Please carry on! ):P

Quote:

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Originally Posted by fataki

Scenario: Laptop is connected to external display and laptop display is off. External display is disconnected from laptop, but laptop screen doesn't turn on. Need to switch display back to just laptop before disconnecting external display. Pressing display switch-button should help?

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\should just need to write a small script that tells gnome to cycle thru the displays and then assign it to a hotkey. Actually, similar to the brightness fix should be possible to do it like that.

Either that or dont have only an external display on.



Oh... first post updated to reflect progress.

Regarding the headphones/mic jacks issue:

For me (on an R705), installing the backports alsa package (depending on which kernel you're running, it could be named linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic, or something similar to that; for me it was linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic-tuxonice, because I'm running a tuxonice kernel) fixed it. Needs reboot to take effect.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by omerp

Regarding the headphones/mic jacks issue:

For me (on an R705), installing the backports alsa package (depending on which kernel you're running, it could be named linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic, or something similar to that; for me it was linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic-tuxonice, because I'm running a tuxonice kernel) fixed it. Needs reboot to take effect.

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Yeah as long as you get the alsa-driver-1.0.23 (the latest one) headphones et cetera should work.

You can also run the upgrade script:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...10#post6589810

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Originally Posted by connect404

Fingerprint reader

• Shows up in lspci, but isn't detected by pam_fprint_enroll or fprint_demo.

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Have anybody tried Fingerprint GUI? On VAIO SZ there was the same problem with the above fingerprint reading solutions under Ubuntu, however, Fingerprint GUI was working perfectly.

http://www.n-view.net/Appliance/fingerprint/

Quote:

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Originally Posted by connect404

Wifi / Bluetooth

• Intel wifi works 100%
• Full WEP/WPA/WPA2 support
• Wifi wont turn off/on via keyboard hotkey
• Wifi status LED will not turn off even with card manually disabled
• Bluetooth works, pairs, transfers files, connects to my bluteooth HID device
• Even when disabled, bluetooth seems to renable itself sometimes after a reboot or resume from suspend... still chasing this up. I suspect its still drawing power even when disabled
  

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I'm having trouble with 802.11N on my R705. Did you do anything special to make that work? I can't get it to talk to my access point using WPA2-Personal with a pre-shared key. It acts as if it doesn't even see the access point. It connects with ease to my 802.11B/G access point.

Hi all,

Great thread. VERY helpful for me.

For the headphones, I had the same problem with my old laptop, so I just got some logitech headphones that had USB converter included. All worked fine. (slack but simple).

I have an issue that I haven't seen on here yet and I am wondering if it is just my laptop...

Sometimes when I leave the laptop in Suspend, when I come back to it (usually about 12 hrs later) the battery is dead as a doornail. It doesn't happen everytime, just when it wants to annoy me.

My first suspicion was the battery, especially because of the dodgy charge/status info in ubuntu, but I read here and found that was normal, I also tested the laptop after the battery was charged and found I got at least 3 hrs use (with no power saving tweaks) so I don't think it's the battery. Anyone else had this problem?

I have tested suspend in Win 7 and had no such problems, but the issue is random enough that it could be by complete chance that it hasn't happened... yet. I don't use Win7 very often so I have to do more testing of the issue.

I'm probably going to get an R700-15R soon (encouraged by the reports here) but I can't find anything useful anywhere about port replicators.

I presume that the usb ones really do need Windows drivers so I can ignore them but does anyone know about the Hi-Speed Port Replicator? As long as the basics work then it will be good enough for me - I've lived with having to turn off my Thinkpad X41 to (un)dock it ...

I just got the r705 and I just installed 10.04 and can not get my wireless working. Has anyone else had a similar problem or any suggestions to get me up and running?

Thanks

Quote:

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Originally Posted by hanaflower

I just got the r705 and I just installed 10.04 and can not get my wireless working. Has anyone else had a similar problem or any suggestions to get me up and running?

Thanks

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Welcome to the forum! Is this your first Ubuntu/Linux install? You may need to start a new thread for this, but to get you going, try these troubleshooting suggestions, if you haven't found them already:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...eShootingGuide

Hi everyone!
I've successfully installed Ubuntu 10.04.1 on my R700 and everything seems to go fine (excluding the known problems with function keys and other minor issues). However, today I've docked it to its port replicator for the first time and got not signal on neither the auxiliar 19 inches screen nor the laptop screen. Moreover, the fan was working at maximum regime whereas the upper left cornes was getting dangeroulsy hot.
Does anybody know about the nature of the problem and how to solve it?
Thanks in advance.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by garciagil

... However, today I've docked it to its port replicator for the first time and got not signal on neither the auxiliar 19 inches screen nor the laptop screen. Moreover, the fan was working at maximum regime whereas the upper left cornes was getting dangeroulsy hot. ...

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Hello and welcome to the Ubuntu forums! Which model of port replicator are you using? If it is one of the dynadock models, as far as I know, they are software enabled (they have O.S. specific drivers to install), and therefore unlikely to work with Ubuntu.

http://us.toshiba.com/computers/accessories/dynadock

If it's a more "traditional" dock, then I'm not sure why it would not work, since I've used these before (albeit rarely, and not with a R700 series Portégé) without any issues.

http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/adet.to?poid=472413

Hello,

I have installed the Ubuntu 10.10 on my toshiba R700 Core i5
Sometimes , my laptop is freeze with hight CPU (hight fan).
then I must rebooted (reboot = 10:22)

Any ideas ?

LOGS :

lpierre@r700:~$ dmesg | fgrep intel\ ips
[ 10.122039] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: Warning: CPU TDP doesn't match expected value (found 25, expected 35)
[ 10.122065] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 10.183862] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: IPS driver initialized, MCP temp limit 90
[ 15.349952] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 25.327189] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 155.086569] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 185.031072] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 214.975543] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 219.966342] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

/var/log/message
Oct 15 10:11:09 r700 kernel: [ 15.363888] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=600
Oct 15 10:11:11 r700 kernel: [ 17.906394] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:11:13 r700 kernel: [ 19.626730] EXT4-fs (sda1): re-mounted. Opts: errors=remount-ro,commit=600
Oct 15 10:11:13 r700 kernel: [ 19.629325] EXT4-fs (sda3): re-mounted. Opts: commit=600
Oct 15 10:11:42 r700 kernel: [ 48.996001] padlock: VIA PadLock not detected.
Oct 15 10:17:36 r700 kernel: [ 402.326815] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:17:41 r700 kernel: [ 407.319251] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:17:51 r700 kernel: [ 417.304198] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.


syslog
ct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <warn> Activation (eth1) failed.
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 0).
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 wpa_supplicant[1200]: Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Oct 15 10:17:02 r700 CRON[1996]: (root) CMD ( cd / && run-parts --report /etc/cron.hourly)
Oct 15 10:17:36 r700 kernel: [ 402.326815] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:17:41 r700 kernel: [ 407.319251] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:17:51 r700 kernel: [ 417.304198] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 kernel: imklog 4.2.0, log source = /proc/kmsg started.
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 rsyslogd: [origin software="rsyslogd" swVersion="4.2.0" x-pid="1043" x-info="http://www.rsyslog.com"] (re)start
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's groupid changed to 103
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 rsyslogd: rsyslogd's userid changed to 101

---------------------------------------
deamon.log
Oct 15 10:12:32 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associating
Oct 15 10:12:32 r700 wpa_supplicant[1200]: Association request to the driver failed
Oct 15 10:12:37 r700 wpa_supplicant[1200]: Authentication with 00:0f:b5:36:0b:86 timed out.
Oct 15 10:12:37 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: associating -> disconnected
Oct 15 10:12:37 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: disconnected -> scanning
Oct 15 10:12:42 r700 wpa_supplicant[1200]: Trying to associate with 00:0f:b5:36:0b:86 (SSID='viatelecom' freq=2462 MHz)
Oct 15 10:12:42 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): supplicant connection state: scanning -> associating
Oct 15 10:12:42 r700 wpa_supplicant[1200]: Association request to the driver failed
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <warn> Activation (eth1/wireless): association took too long, failing activation.
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 5 -> 9 (reason 11)
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <warn> Activation (eth1) failed for access point (viatelecom)
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> Marking connection 'Auto viatelecom' invalid.
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <warn> Activation (eth1) failed.
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): device state change: 9 -> 3 (reason 0)
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 NetworkManager[1103]: <info> (eth1): deactivating device (reason: 0).
Oct 15 10:12:47 r700 wpa_supplicant[1200]: Authentication with 00:00:00:00:00:00 timed out.
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 NetworkManager[1107]: <info> NetworkManager (version 0.8.1) is starting...
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 NetworkManager[1107]: <info> Read config file /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 avahi-daemon[1113]: Found user 'avahi' (UID 104) and group 'avahi' (GID 109).
Oct 15 10:24:18 r700 avahi-daemon[1113]: Successfully dropped root privileges.



Many thanks

No ideas, but I can confirm the same behavior. I initially did an upgrade from 10.04 to 10.10 and my R700 would randomly hard crash, and the CPU fan would start to spin very very fast (faster than at full load). I wiped it, did a clean install and I still am having the same issue, though no where near as frequent. Logs don't show much.

The brightness fix details above does not work anymore. toshset is not working in Maverick...

Code:

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connect404@pez:~$ sudo toshset
required kernel toshiba support not enabled.

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On the bright side the headphone issue is resolved and my laptop can now suspend with an SD card installed.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by choylee

Hello,

I have installed the Ubuntu 10.10 on my toshiba R700 Core i5
Sometimes , my laptop is freeze with hight CPU (hight fan).
then I must rebooted (reboot = 10:22)

Any ideas ?

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Just checked and a new firmware for the R700 is out:

Version 1.60 - 2010-09-28

• Changed the Thermal Control Parameter(s).

Looks suspiciously related.... too bad toshiba doesnt give any useful info for these updates. I will try it out on Monday and report back.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by choylee;9975703
[ 10.122039

intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: Warning: CPU TDP doesn't match expected value (found 25, expected 35)
[ 10.122065] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 10.183862] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: IPS driver initialized, MCP temp limit 90
[ 15.349952] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 25.327189] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 155.086569] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 185.031072] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 214.975543] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 219.966342] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

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I have a 1.5 Bios version .

Do you advice me to update in 1.6 ?

Many Thanks.

Dont know the answer, going to do an update now. Mine just crashed again with the same apci errors:

These are some new errors when bringing the laptop up:

Code:

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Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.212797] ata1: SATA link up 3.0 Gbps (SStatus 123 SControl 300)
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213805] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213811] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff8800709427e0), AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213937] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.213942] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880070942800), AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.214488] ata1.00: ATA-8: Hitachi HTS725032A9A360, PC3OC71E, max UDMA/133
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.214510] ata1.00: 625142448 sectors, multi 16: LBA48 NCQ (depth 31/32), AA
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215704] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215709] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._SDD] (Node ffff8800709427e0), AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215809] ACPI Error (psargs-0359): [GTF0] Namespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
Oct 15 12:52:18 pez kernel: [    2.215829] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SAT0.PRT0._GTF] (Node ffff880070942800), AE_NOT_FOUND

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and when its just idling var/log/messages is filling up with this:

Code:

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Oct 15 13:03:04 pez kernel: [  975.880540] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:03:09 pez kernel: [  980.875789] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:04:54 pez kernel: [ 1085.776650] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:07:29 pez kernel: [ 1240.645532] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:07:59 pez kernel: [ 1270.632053] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:08:29 pez kernel: [ 1300.618543] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:08:54 pez kernel: [ 1325.607321] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:10:24 pez kernel: [ 1415.568035] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:10:59 pez kernel: [ 1450.552562] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:11:29 pez kernel: [ 1480.538681] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:11:49 pez kernel: [ 1500.528504] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:12:24 pez kernel: [ 1535.513560] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:12:59 pez kernel: [ 1570.496939] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
Oct 15 13:13:39 pez kernel: [ 1610.478892] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

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Quote:

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Originally Posted by choylee

I have a 1.5 Bios version .

Do you advice me to update in 1.6 ?

Many Thanks.

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Bios update complete, errors still spamming in the logs. Havent seen a crash .... yet

I going to see the BIOS parameters in order to disable something


LOGS
9.634420] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: Warning: CPU TDP doesn't match expected value (found 25, expected 35)
[ 9.634447] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: PCI INT C -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
[ 9.682117] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: IPS driver initialized, MCP temp limit 90
[ 14.856928] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 24.835781] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 84.709055] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 119.628788] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
...etc..........;
[13646.387447] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[1266874884.011836] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: restoring config space at offset 0xf (was 0x300, writing 0x30a)
[1266874884.011854] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: restoring config space at offset 0x4 (was 0x4, writing 0xd4724004)
[1266874884.011862] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: restoring config space at offset 0x1 (was 0x100000, writing 0x100006)
[ 10.713992] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 60.630078] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded
[ 220.361372] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

I can confirm that kernel 2.6.35 (the one distributed under Maverick) breaks toshset. Turns out a bug has already been submitted about this;

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...et/+bug/644898

For now I know of no workaround except downgrading to a 2.6.32 kernel. Not much of a solution.

Also experiencing the freeze with high cpu/fan usage, but not often.

Can't install the 1.60 Bios update, toshiba service center (and the .zip file I downloaded from the site) claim it is not suitable for my device (R700-11P).

Dunno if this is the right place to ask, but how do I install Toshiba Utils on a Portege m400? I'm told if I install this, the hardware buttons will work.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by TNT1

Dunno if this is the right place to ask, but how do I install Toshiba Utils on a Portege m400? I'm told if I install this, the hardware buttons will work.

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Well, it's a thread on the R700, so not really the right place no :-P

You may find something useful here:
http://linuxappfinder.com/package/toshutils

I have never used these but I might give them a go myself.

.... ok I tried the toshutils but does not appear to work on the R700, the website mentions it probably won't for the newer models coz of BIOS stuff. (I know, I'm very technical with my descriptions)

Quote:

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Originally Posted by longreach

.... ok I tried the toshutils but does not appear to work on the R700, the website mentions it probably won't for the newer models coz of BIOS stuff. (I know, I'm very technical with my descriptions)

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Yes, to the best of my understanding, toshutils was designed to work with the old power-management interface, APM -- whereas toshset can talk to the newer interface, ACPI.

Ladies/Gents,

Thanks for all the hints and tips on this thread.

I've recently got an R700 15W from work and installed Ubuntu 10.04 on it.

The headphone jack initially didn't work but I followed the suggestion of omerp and installed linux-backports-modules-alsa-lucid-generic and after a reboot I a wired up for sound! So thanks very much.

I have a Toshiba Hi Speed Port Replicator in the office. [Looks just like this: http://www.toshibadirect.com/td/b2c/...o?poid=472413] It works just fine for me.

I also have the display at maximum brightness problem when you come back from a suspend but haven't yet tried the suggestions.

Overall it seems like a pretty slick machine....

EDIT: It appears that the backports-modules and the docking station don't go very well together. With the backports installed the machine quite often fails to start or if it does putting it in a docking station causes a complete lock-up with no mouse movement. So you might have to pick one or the other.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by connect404

Bios update complete, errors still spamming in the logs. Havent seen a crash .... yet

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I have updated to BIOS 1.16.
I have the same errors in /var/log/message
intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

But I have not seen a crash (cpu/fan hight speed ) :P


Do you know if this CPU temperature is too hight ? :confused:
r700-131:/var/log$ sensors
acpitz-virtual-0
Adapter: Virtual device
temp1: +56.0°C (crit = +107.0°C)

Thanks

Battery life and its estimation seem better with 10.10 Maverick. Still having the crashes though, twice in 15 min. this morning, but not after that.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by omerp

JacquiOh: I've found a better, cleaner, and -- most importantly -- more reliable solution to the brightness-control-after-resume problem.

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Does this really work?

I normally use Debian. "toshset" on Debian would not work without a specially patched toshiba_acpi driver. I ported the patch in the /usr/share/doc/toshset directory to 2.6.35 and rebuilt it. However, having done that, running "toshset -bl on" post reboot didn't cure the problem (but it did vary the backlight brightness fractionally).

I assumed that Ubuntu must have this stuff compiled into their toshiba_acpi driver by default and perhaps some other magic. So, I installed 10.10, but I have the exact same findings there.

Who has got this to work?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by jmtd

Does this really work?

I normally use Debian. "toshset" on Debian would not work without a specially patched toshiba_acpi driver. I ported the patch in the /usr/share/doc/toshset directory to 2.6.35 and rebuilt it. However, having done that, running "toshset -bl on" post reboot didn't cure the problem (but it did vary the backlight brightness fractionally).

I assumed that Ubuntu must have this stuff compiled into their toshiba_acpi driver by default and perhaps some other magic. So, I installed 10.10, but I have the exact same findings there.

Who has got this to work?

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The "fix" using toshset amounts to calling 'toshset -bl on' after every time you alter brightness (i.e., right after the brightness function-keys are pressed). For reasons that are not 100% clear to me, this makes the hardware actually reflect the change that was issued.

Now, as far as kernel versions are concerned: everything I said here pertains to 2.6.32; as other posts in this thread mention, this does not work on 2.6.35 (the version that Ubuntu 10.10/Maverick shipped with), and judging from the bug-report on launchpad (see previous post), it's not a matter of toshiba_acpi not being compiled into the kernel, but rather something more subtle...

Quote:

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Originally Posted by jmtd

Does this really work?

I normally use Debian. "toshset" on Debian would not work without a specially patched toshiba_acpi driver. I ported the patch in the /usr/share/doc/toshset directory to 2.6.35 and rebuilt it. However, having done that, running "toshset -bl on" post reboot didn't cure the problem (but it did vary the backlight brightness fractionally).

I assumed that Ubuntu must have this stuff compiled into their toshiba_acpi driver by default and perhaps some other magic. So, I installed 10.10, but I have the exact same findings there.

Who has got this to work?

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Sorry if this post is slightly off-topic, but the post by jmtd (above) is very interesting, since it seems you got toshset to work. Can you please go into a little more detail on exactly how you did this, i.e. "I ported the patch in the /usr/share/doc/toshset directory to 2.6.35 and rebuilt it". Kindly elaborate? Where did you find the patch?

I am running Ubuntu 10.10 with kernel 2.6.35-22-generic, on a Toshiba Portege R600. I need toshset in order to enable the on-board 3g Mobile Broadband modem, but running toshset gives "required kernel toshiba support not eanbled". The module toshiba_acpi is successfully loaded on my system, but toshset still does not run.

If you got it to work with kernel 2.6.35 I'm very interested to know how. Thanks.

hi,can somebody help me to run synaptics 2 finger scroll script on resume? simply adding it to startup apps results in loosing this ability after resume

btw, brightness fix also fails after resume

headphone jack works out-of-the-box and sleep works with sd card in the reader too.

hi, please help me to fix hibernation issue. this my syslog during hibernation attempt

I think there are at least 2 problems in this log
1- bluetooth failed to hibernate
2- why is it spending 100seconds to preallocate space on my ssd with average speed of 25MB/s. I have intel ssd x25-m, sequential write speed around 100MB/s. Why even pre-allocate anything? Can it be because my swap isn't on the swap partition but a swap file in the /mnt?

EDIT: ok I fixed hibernation by going from swap file to swap partition, editing uswsusp.conf for new swap device and reconfiguring uswsusp. A bonus is that after hibernation - brightness regulation keeps working.

Hello, people, is bluetooth working for you on 10.10? I cannot activate bluetooth in Ubuntu, however, in W7 everything works.

ok, found easy fix to 2 finger scroll issue
desktop->gnome->peripherals->touchpad->scroll_method =2 in gconf-editor
while there, you can also enable horizontal scroll. it survives hibernate cycle this way

This problem also exists on the Satellite R630 (Portege R700 sans some of the business features). My R630-13F freezes up shortly after boot, but usually once it's "warm" (one or two boots) it's OK.

There's also an apparent (but not completely confirmed, to my mind) correlation between running on battery and/or using the wifi instead of wired ethernet, and the lockups.

Safe to say it's something ACPI related, however.

There's a bug report here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/667405 is there a similar report for the R700?

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Originally Posted by solnyshok

headphone jack works out-of-the-box and sleep works with sd card in the reader too.

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I have also got the headphone & mic jack working out of the box (since upgrading) might be worth editing first post to say it is in 10.10.

Many of the hardware issues discussed here (and others) can be resolved using the "toshset" command. This allows you to control a host of functions such as screen brightness, the fan, Fn keys, bluetooth, the on-board 3g modem, etc.

For example, the 3g mobile broadband modem in Toshiba laptops does not work out the box in Ubuntu. In order to enable it, you have to issue the command "sudo toshset -3g on" in a Terminal. Then you can use Network Manager to set up your mobile broadband connection (assuming toshset works!)

Problem is, toshset does not work with the latest kernel version 2.6.35 used in Ubuntu 10.10. Using the command shown above gives the error "required toshiba kernel support not enabled". However, it DOES work with previous releases of Ubuntu, which used older kernel versions.

Apparently the problem is with the driver module tochiba_acpi. In order for toshset to run, it requires a modified version of toshiba_acpi. It seems that the modified driver is included with the older kernel 2.6.32 (compiled for Ubuntu), but for some reason it has been left out of the latest kernel.

Note that the module toshiba_acpi IS present in Ubuntu 10.10, but it is not the modified version that is required for toshset.

The modified module toshiba_acpi is available as a patch here:
http://memebeam.org/free-software/toshiba_acpi/
Note that this site says that the driver is already included in "modern" kernals (2.4 and 2.6). However, it appears that what is included in these kernels is the old, unmodified driver. So you DO need to patch the driver.

EDIT:
For instructions on applying the patch, see post #13 on the following page:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644898

Alternatively:
Another solution is a work-around. All you need to do is use an older kernel. The kernel used by the previous version of Ubuntu (10.04 - Lucid Lynx) is kernel 2.6.32-25-generic and this kernel includes the modified driver, which allows toshset to run.

The easiest way to install the 2.6.32 kernel is via the Synaptic package manager. If you have multiple operating systems installed, when you reboot Grub will give you the option of starting Ubuntu 10.10 with kernel 2.6.32. Even though you are using an older kernel, everything still works as normal - including toshset.

Once you have the 2.6.32 kernel, type "toshset" in a Terminal, and you will see all the hardware functions it can do.

Hopefully at some stage the modified driver will be built into the latest kernel.

Hello,

I don't find the Ubuntu (10.01) but so :

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)
Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)
Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS (Lucid Lynx)
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

Do you mean 10.04.1 ?

Thanks you

Choylee,

You are quite correct - the previous version of Ubuntu was 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) with kernel 2.6.32-25-generic.

My apologies for the error.

what I found from information on new Linux kernel (2.6.36) it is going to be first kernel that has support for Core i3/i5 turbo mode for graphics. Also, current kernel does not see that our CPUs can work at 25% of nominal frequency, so in windows, my 2.4GHz cpu idles at 665MHz, in Ubuntu at 1.2GHz. And lack of bluetooth, lack of brightness regulation after sleep, periodical freezes while running on battery. Lots of small niggles that I strongly dislike. But loading speed is amazing. It now boots in around 5 seconds from SSD.

I am writing this on 2.36 Kernel. It seems faster. All problems with Toshset still present though. No Bluetooth, no brightness regulation after sleep. No reduced MHz.

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Originally Posted by crompie

Choylee,
You are quite correct - the previous version of Ubuntu was 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) with kernel 2.6.32-25-generic.
My apologies for the error.

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I have installed the 10.04 in order to downgrad to a 2.6.32 kernel
And now It works.

I didn't have this errors in /var/log/message and I haven't got the freeze with high cpu/fan usage :)
[ 119.628788] intel ips 0000:00:1f.6: MCP power or thermal limit exceeded

root@r700:/# aptitude show toshset
Package: toshset
State: installed
Automatically installed: no
Version: 1.75-2
Priority: optionnel
Section: utils
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Uncompressed Size: 250k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.7), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libpci3, libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1), zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Description: Access much of the Toshiba laptop hardware interface Toshset is a command-line tool to allow access to much of the Toshiba laptop hardware interface developed by Jonathan Buzzard. It can do things like set the hard drive spin-down time, turn off the display and set the fan speed without the help of the kernel. Toshset requires an experimental version of the toshiba_acpi kernel module with an ACPI-enabled kernel. Otherwise it works only if the laptop supports the old APM BIOS. (The last of these was produced something like 5 years ago)
Please read README.Debian how to install the experimental version of the toshiba_acpi kernel module. (Ubuntu users don't need it)

I've read the thread, what do you guys recommend?

I've just purchased a Toshiba Portege R705 and am interested in dual booting to linux. Should I even attempt it? And if so do I go back to a previous version 10.04.1 so that the toshset still works?

Lastly is it really safe? If the OS controls the cooling then how do I know that the fan will keep the i3 processor cool? I would have thought that the bios controlled the fan not the OS.

ksanger,

I have an R705 as well, and so long as you install 10.04.1 (or alternatively, install 10.10 and downgrade to the 2.6.32 kernel), the OS works *great* on this machine. As far as the heat/fan-related comments on this thread, I suspect that they pertain to the R700, not to the R705 -- as I have never encountered them on my R705.

For those wishing to use toshset with kernel 2.6.35 in Ubuntu 10.10, see post #13 on the following page:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/644898

There are instructions there to patch the kernel, enabling toshset to run.

:P

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Originally Posted by omerp

...as far as the heat/fan-related comments on this thread, I suspect that they pertain to the R700, not to the R705 -- as I have never encountered them on my R705.

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actually, I think it is a matter of toshiba-acpi functionality. Happens regularly on my r630 with kernel 2.6.35 on Ubuntu 10.10 and yesterday happened on Fedora 14 (also 2.6.35-something kernel)

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Originally Posted by solnyshok

actually, I think it is a matter of toshiba-acpi functionality. Happens regularly on my r630 with kernel 2.6.35 on Ubuntu 10.10 and yesterday happened on Fedora 14 (also 2.6.35-something kernel)

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That's my point, though -- I was running Ubuntu 10.10 with 2.6.35 on my R705 for quite a while and never encountered this particular issue. Perhaps, then, I should have written "I suspect they pertain to models other than the R705"...

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Originally Posted by omerp

That's my point, though -- I was running Ubuntu 10.10 with 2.6.35 on my R705 for quite a while and never encountered this particular issue. Perhaps, then, I should have written "I suspect they pertain to models other than the R705"...

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it occurs only on cold start WITHOUT AC, i/e cold start on battery. So, if you use it mostly connected to AC, you could have missed it. Anyway, now compiling updated tacpi, hopefully will forget about this bug forever. //EDIT: Happened again this morning on resume from cold, 2.6.35 with patched ACPI

I'm running a Toshiba Portege R705-P35 with ubuntu kernel 2.6.32-25. The wireless port will not enable.

Based on these recommendations I tried installing Ubuntu 10.04 LTS through WUBI. It installs. But my wireless port is disabled. It sees the wireless device as an Intel WiMAX/WFi Link 6050 Series. There is a bug report https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...re/+bug/532451 #39 stating that the driver for this hardware did not work.

The fix appears to be installing the driver and sys file from Windows using ndiswrapper. Also the last post suggests that the new driver does exist. However I can't find instructions on how to use either method. Can someone please post what they have done to enable the wireless Ethernet connection?

Hello again. Still have no idea how to enable the wireless on this toshiba r705 laptop with ubuntu 10.04 LTS. However there is a difference between Win 7 which lists the wireless as 6250 and ubuntu which calls is 6050. Is this part of my problem? Please help.

Hi,I want to share another solution to brightness regulation after suspend. I went into "keyboard shortcuts" and added new ones for
Fn+F6 = sudo toshset -bl on
Fn+F7 = sudo toshest -bl on
it works for me, maybe because I am in sudoers file.

What is interesting in this approach, is that now brightness is being regulated in smaller steps. Previously, you could regulate it in steps of 2 from 0 to 8. now it is in steps of 1. OSD do not show up anymore. I like this better than previous situation though.

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also, bluetooth is sometimes off on startup, and always off after suspend. in order to re-activate it, I use following commands
sudo toshset -bluetooth off
sudo toshset -bluetooth on
sudo bluetoothd
I also installed blueman-applet cause it is more functional than the default one.

re: cold freezes.
Today, I had more time to study this issue. It happens only in Linux, Windows is ok. This morning I used laptop outside, it is quite cold there, so machine was getting colder instead of warmer and it kept crashing. Seems that there is a problem, that if processor is not hot enough (or thermal sensors are not warm enough) it would lockup. And, as this doesn't affect Windows, I think it is a bug in Toshiba ACPI that we use.

Well I take this back. Wireless on the Toshiba R705 with Ubuntu 10.04.01 LTS finally works. The last thing I did was delete the connections I made by hand. Then tried to connect again. So in short, download the latest driver (6050 driver from http://intellinuxwireless.org/?n=downloads), untar it (tar xvf iwlwifi-6050-ucode-9.201.4.1.tgz), then copy it into /lib/firmware (cp iwlwifi-6050-ucode-9.201.4.1 /lib/firmware/) . Then delete any wireless connection you tried to edit by hand. Then reboot. Your connections should show up, enter your security information. And you'll be where I am :)



Ignore my rant below...
Wireless for 10.04.01 LTS does not work. Installed latest driver /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-6050-4.ucode. Now I can see my home network, but it won't connect.

10.04.01 LTS is not compatible with wireless networks at least out of the box. Either everyone is online using the wired link or their doing something else. If I ever get this working I'll post back, but I'm about to GIVE UP. A laptop, especially a light weight laptop, requires a wireless connection. Period. Software that doesn't provide that as a minimum isn't compatible. Sorry ubuntu it was a good try.

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10.04.01 LTS is not compatible with wireless networks at least out of the box. Either everyone is online using the wired link or their doing something else.

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No issues for wifi on 10.04 at all for me on a standard R700. I dont seem to get wifi-N performance, but its not a real biggie.

a 'sudo lspci -v' shows the following for wifi:

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02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 (rev 35)
        Subsystem: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N 6200 2x2 AGN
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 36
        Memory at 94500000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
        Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [d0] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number 00
        Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
        Kernel modules: iwlagn

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Originally Posted by ksanger

Either everyone is online using the wired link or their doing something else.

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I think I saw in one of your previous posts, ksanger, that you're on an R705-P35, right? I'm on an R705-P25 (i.e., an older model), which uses an Intel 6200, which I guess is better supported :-/

I'm really sorry you've had this bad luck -- I guess Toshiba rolled out a model with newer wifi hardware, but unfortunately the support is not there yet from Ubuntu (?)

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Originally Posted by omerp

I think I saw in one of your previous posts, ksanger, that you're on an R705-P35, right?

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Oh, missed that... what wifi card do you have installed ksanger? run lspci and post back the results.

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Originally Posted by connect404

Oh, missed that... what wifi card do you have installed ksanger? run lspci and post back the results.

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toshiba r705-p35 with ubuntu 10.04.01 LTS shows the wireless network controller 02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiMAX/WiFi Link 6050 Series (rev 5f). Note Win 7 shows it as an Intel WiMAX/Wifi 6250.

Here is lspci output so you may see the rest of the hardware on the p35 version.

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82577LC Gigabit Network Connection (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
01:00.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd Device e822 (rev 01)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiMAX/WiFi Link 6050 Series (rev 5f)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

Have anyone found a workaround for "cold start" bug? This is the only thing which delays me of switching from Windows to Ubuntu. ;)

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Originally Posted by solnyshok

Hello, people, is bluetooth working for you on 10.10? I cannot activate bluetooth in Ubuntu, however, in W7 everything works.

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Install Blueman ;)

as much as I love ubuntu, I went away to Win7 until this cold start bug is sorted out. I cannot afford to loose my work everytime I wakeup my laptop without AC.