ACER Extensa 5635 wifi re-enabling problem

Hi,

I have a new notebook ACER Extensa 5635 and I’m facing a problem with re-enablinf wifi. I have a key for disabling and enabling wifi (same for bluetooth). I can disable wifi by pressing a button but enabling is not more possible (led should be switched on but remain off). I check rfkill state and after key press state is changed from 2(HW blocked) to 1 (SW blocked). I try to launch ifcongig wlan0 up then and wifi interface if working fine then. It is a problem of configuration or some other problem? Bluetooth key works fine.

lspci -nnv:
07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100 [8086:4232]
Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1201]
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
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 00-1e-65-ff-ff-97-5f-46
Kernel driver in use: iwlagn

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nandra wrote:
> I have a new notebook ACER Extensa 5635 and I’m facing a problem with
> re-enablinf wifi.

all of your wifi problems are best introduced, discussed and solved in
the http://forums.opensuse.org/get-help-here/wireless/ forum…

that is where the wifi gurus hang out…they may never see it here in
hardware…(though, obviously the intel wifi is a piece of hardware)

but, before ask again over there, please PM a moderator to move your
thread…and, while waiting for that to happen, and answers to come,
you probably should have a look at the three stickies at the top of
that forum–your answers might already be there awaiting your
discovery…


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Ok, I am going to move this thread to the wireless forum area.

WEB Edit - thread now moved to Wireless section.

I have moved this thread to the wireless section of our forum, in the hope that the original poster gets a better response to their help request. This thread is again open.[/size]

On 05/26/2010 07:06 AM, oldcpu wrote:
>
> nandra;2169485 Wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have a new notebook ACER Extensa 5635 and I’m facing a problem with
>> re-enablinf wifi. I have a key for disabling and enabling wifi (same for
>> bluetooth). I can disable wifi by pressing a button but enabling is not
>> more possible (led should be switched on but remain off). I check rfkill
>> state and after key press state is changed from 2(HW blocked) to 1 (SW
>> blocked). I try to launch ifcongig wlan0 up then and wifi interface if
>> working fine then. It is a problem of configuration or some other
>> problem? Bluetooth key works fine.
>>
>> lspci -nnv:
>> 07:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link
>> 5100 [8086:4232]
>> Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device [8086:1201]
>> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 27
>> Memory at c0000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8]
>> 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
>> 00-1e-65-ff-ff-97-5f-46
>> Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
>>
>>
>> Thanks,I have moved this thread to the wireless section of our forum, in the
> hope that the original poster gets a better response to their help
> request. This thread is again open.[/size]

For the record, I read the hardware forum, and a lot of others. I got
tired of posting “This should be in Wireless”, thus I tend to ignore
wireless problems not posted in Wireless or Internet.

As to the OP’s problem - The hardware seems to be working correctly as
the switch turns the hardware block state on/off just as expected.

Are you using NetworkManager or ifup? I suspect ifup based on your
symptoms, and I am not sure that ifup would restore the connection after
unblocking the hardware with the switch. With NM on 11.3 M7, I had to
reselect the connection after switching off/on. After the first time, NM
reconnected automatically.

I’ve Acer Extensa 5635. I’ve installed opensuse 11.2 desktop kernel 32bit, When it’s boot up there are not network, only “lo”. If i boot witch option acpi=off the network functon perfectly but obviusly the battery, the power management and other acpi function non start. I’ve change kernel : vanilla, pae, other, (only 32bit), but the problem it’ the same. Do you have same problem? Thanks

On 05/31/2010 10:46 AM, guandalix wrote:
>
> I’ve Acer Extensa 5635. I’ve installed opensuse 11.2 desktop kernel
> 32bit, When it’s boot up there are not network, only “lo”. If i boot
> witch option acpi=off the network functon perfectly but obviusly the
> battery, the power management and other acpi function non start. I’ve
> change kernel : vanilla, pae, other, (only 32bit), but the problem it’
> the same. Do you have same problem? Thanks

If you need to turn ACPI off to get network, you have a BIOS problem.
Please review all settings in the BIOS. In particular, look for
Wake-On-Lan settings for the wireless. Sometimes these options can
interfere with network startup. If you do not find any of those, then
see if there an update for the BIOS.

When you see this problem, it is likely that your wireless card is not
even attached to the computer. Does it show up with the command below?


/sbin/lspci  -nnk

thanks for replay. In the bios i’ve bisabled “boot on network” but the problem it’s the same.

afther that i’ve set the amount of vga ram frim 32Mb to 128Mb (the maximum) and the network wired AND wireless started and the battery indicator and acpi functions are ok. how it’s possible?

Now i’ve new minor problem: key of brigtness (fn+lesft or right) non work, so the the brigtness is fixed. any ideas?

Now i’ve new minor problem: key of brigtness (fn+lesft or right) non work, so the the brigtness is fixed. any ideas?

Ideally, you should start another thread on this, with a suitable descriptive heading, otherwise others that could help may miss this.

Anyway, I found a bug report concerning (backlight dimming issues) that suggests

For Acer Extensa 5635Z with bios version V0.3219 or newer adding acpi_osi=Linux acpi_backlight=legacy as boot parameter resolves the issue.

If this doesn’t help, use the first advice I gave you.

Also this openSUSE bug report.