I have been searching the web for a solution to a couple of problems I am having with hardware, I am Unable to get the fan or wireless working on my Toshiba U505 S2950 Laptop. I am new to using OpenSuse but I have used Ubuntu and other distros. I have not been able to solve these issues yet and I have tried several things that I have found on various forums
Open a terminal and post result of
/sbin/lspci -nnk
From this we can see your hardware and drivers
denis@linux-mdz1:~> /sbin/lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a40] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: agpgart-intel
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a42] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: i915
00:02.1 Display controller [0380]: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:2a43] (rev 09)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2937] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2938] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 [8086:2939] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:293c] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:293e] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff41]
Kernel driver in use: HDA Intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:2940] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2942] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2946] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.5 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 [8086:294a] (rev 03)
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2934] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2935] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2936] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:293a] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller [8086:2919] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI Controller [8086:2929] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
02:00.0 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e822] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
02:00.1 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e230] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
02:00.2 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e852] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8191SEvB Wireless LAN Controller [10ec:8172] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device [10ec:8151]
07:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E/RTL8102E PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller [10ec:8136] (rev 02)
Subsystem: Toshiba America Info Systems Device [1179:ff40]
Kernel driver in use: r8169
denis@linux-mdz1:~>
Here’s a link that shows this driver should work with your card.
https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=rtl8192se&project=driver:wireless
You should be able to download the appropriate firmware and driver from the link below. Make sure to download the correct driver for your kernel.
software.opensuse.org: Search Results
On second thought, it’s probably best to add the repository and install it with yast so you don’t have to manually update every time you update the kernel. Here’s the repo link.
Index of /repositories/driver:/wireless/11.3-update
THANKS!! Updating now. I will post the results
Hope that goes OK
When you say the Fan isn’t working. You mean the CPU cooler?
yes the CPU cooler wasn’t working and it still seems to be very slow but the computer has not overheated so it is probably fine. And wireless is also working perfectly now. I have one issue though that is strange, when the machine boots up now I have a few new boot options and and one less. originally I had the following Grub menu…
openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.3
Failsafe – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.3
Windows 1
Windows 2
I now have the following options in my grub menu…
openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.4 (pae)
Failsafe – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.4 (pae)
Xen – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.4
Desktop – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.4
Failsafe – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.4 (desktop)
openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.3
Failsafe – openSUSE 11.3 - 2.6.34.7-0.3
Windows 1
Notice I gained a few options and lost the “windows 2” option. I do not completely understand what all that means but I tried some of the options and they resulted in an error. I would like to remove ones that I do not need and add the “windows 2” option back. The windows 2 option boots to the toshiba recovery. I would like to edit the grub without crashing the machine but if it can’t be done I will deal with it.
I am very happy the CPU cooler and wireless are now working, I thought I was going to have to go back to using M$ Windows.
Thank you!
You can use YaST to remove grub entries. Its under System->Boot Loader
Thanks, worked like a charm!