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    DFY30 and antenna on/off control

    Discussion in 'Other Manufacturers' started by KnottyMan, Mar 27, 2007.

  1. KnottyMan

    KnottyMan Newbie

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    Working on a DFY30 P4/2.8 notebook and I'm trying to get wireless to work. I installed the Broadcom driver for the card and it loaded ok, sees the rev and MAC and all, but when I go to configure the network, it says the antenna is off, turn it on dummy.

    There's three buttons in the top right, Web browser, email, and wireless on/off. The wireless LED will light on POST, but dark after that, no amount of button pressing will get it to come on. Web and email buttons work though.

    Tried a different card, but no joy.

    BIOS is 1.40A from Bizcom. Does this not support wireless? I would find it hard to believe as they list drivers below that... Is there a different site I should get drivers/bios from? Is there a Windows app that I need to load?
     
    KnottyMan, Mar 27, 2007
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  2. ollopa

    ollopa Notebook Enthusiast

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    Stupid question but, is the internal antenna connected to the card properly?
    Got pics?
     
    ollopa, Mar 30, 2007
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  3. KnottyMan

    KnottyMan Newbie

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    Can get pics. I have the black and grey going to aux and main properly, securely, though. Tried reversing with no effect. My local shop where I bought it says dead button/pcb but that seems odd since wouldn't that take out the web and email buttons as well? Suppose it's possible, but unlikely I think.
     
    KnottyMan, Mar 30, 2007
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    tymmek Newbie

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    Hello, have you managed to solve the problem since your last post?

    Funny because I have the same laptop (except mine's a Celeron 2.7) a with the EXACT same problem. I bought a Broadcom card for my laptop (my model did not include an internal wireless card) yesterday and I've been doing everything to get it working under Windows XP.

    Furthermore, I suspect there's something wrong on a hardware level because Ubuntu Linux is giving me the following error message:

    [60.564000] bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed

    Let me know if you've made progress, I'll post a message if I fix the problem.
    I also have BIOS 1.40A.

    Tim
     
    tymmek, Jun 17, 2007
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