Hi,
I just bought a new Dell Studio 1558 and I can’t turn the wifi on when logging to my account, the wireless card is installed correctly but the button (F2) doesn’t work to turn the wifi on.
[You can see the keyboard shape here]
On windows there is a program from dell that associate these keys (wifi -F2- and Eject optical drive) to their functions.
I wonder how can I achieve this under OpenSuse.
Thank you.
On 04/10/2010 05:16 PM, python123 wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just bought a new Dell Studio 1558 and I can’t turn the wifi on when
> logging to my account, the wireless card is installed correctly but the
> button (F2) doesn’t work to turn the wifi on.
>
> [You can see the keyboard shape ‘here’
> (http://www.notebookcheck.net/typo3temp/pics/9b41a99b48.jpg)]
>
> On windows there is a program from dell that associate these keys (wifi
> -F2- and Eject optical drive) to their functions.
>
> I wonder how can I achieve this under OpenSuse.
At a m inimum, you need dell-wmi loaded. If the output of ‘lsmod | grep
wmi’ is blank, then you should ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v dell-wmi’. Does
that help?
At a m inimum, you need dell-wmi loaded. If the output of ‘lsmod | grep
wmi’ is blank, then you should ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v dell-wmi’. Does
that help?
No, it didn’t help, it just disabled the Wireless option.
Actually none of the function buttons on the keyboard work, I guess their must be a driver or such!
On 04/14/2010 05:16 PM, python123 wrote:
>
>>
>> At a m inimum, you need dell-wmi loaded. If the output of ‘lsmod |
>> grep
>> wmi’ is blank, then you should ‘sudo /sbin/modprobe -v dell-wmi’. Does
>> that help?
>
> No, it didn’t help, it just disabled the Wireless option.
>
> Actually none of the function buttons on the keyboard work, I guess
> their must be a driver or such!
Yes, and dell-wmi is it. It likely needs to be updated to handle your
model, but we cannot help you with that. You need to contact Matthew
Garrett (mjg@redhat.com), who is the person that wrote the code.
