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    Network and Sound support in Fedora 7 [dv6137tx(dv6000t)]

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by maverick280857, Jul 5, 2007.

  1. maverick280857

    maverick280857 Notebook Consultant

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    Hi everyone.

    I have an HP Pavilion dv6137tx notebook computer (rough specs: T5500 CPU, 1GB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HDD, Intel 3945ABG wireless adapter, Intel 8201G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio controller). Here's

    While Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04 works fine and detects all my hardware out of the box (the sound card and wireless adapter in particular), Fedora 7 does not recognize the wireless adapter and the audio controller.

    Here is the output from lspci:

    What I have tried:

    For Wireless: http://atrpms.net/dist/f7/ipw3945/ (I have not been able to install any of these successfully though, due to a lot of unsatisfied dependencies. I am behind a firewall and yum doesn't work so the only way out at this time seems to be to download rpms individually.)

    For Sound: Nothing so far.

    Any suggestions/ideas are welcome.
     
    maverick280857, Jul 5, 2007
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    Pitabred Linux geek con rat flail!

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    Fedora doesn't have any non-free drivers, and the 3945 requires a proprietary firmware image from Intel.

    As for the sound, I don't know why. Might try removing the ~/.asoundrc file if it exists?
     
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    maverick280857 Notebook Consultant

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    celondil Notebook Consultant

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    The atrpms work quite readily for Fedora Core 6 (I haven't switched to 7 yet though).

    I currently have the following rpms installed on my system:
    ipw3945d-1.7.22-4.at
    ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.20-1.2952.fc6-1.2.0-18.3.fc6
    ipw3945-kmdl-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6-1.2.0-18.2.fc6.at
    ipw3945-ucode-1.14.2-4.at
    ipw3945-1.2.0-18.3.fc6

    install ipw3945 /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install ipw3945 ; sleep 0.5 ; /sbin/ipw3945d --quiet
    remove ipw3945 /sbin/ipw3945d --kill ; /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove ipw3945
    alias eth1 ipw3945

    Hope that helps. Use NetworkManager to configure it from there.
     
    celondil, Jul 5, 2007
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    celondil Notebook Consultant

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    The sound card is similar to mine as well (Rev 01 though). I had issues where it was just muting it by default -- so it was 'working' but no audio. Ended up using alsamixer and found that. The fix for me was to:

    use alsamixer to fix.
    use alsactrl store to save the config, and alsactl restore to load it up on bootup.
     
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    Thanks very much celondil. I haven't yet got an opportunity to try this but as soon as I do, I'll reply back to this thread.
     
    maverick280857, Jul 6, 2007
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    sound is working! Thanks!

    network is working too! :)
     
    maverick280857, Jul 14, 2007
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