Various Issues - Wireless, Sound, Mouse, etc [Solved]

[minimayhem]

Hello,

I've just installed Sabayon 4.2, I have been using Gentoo for a year in an office environment and Ubuntu for 2 years, decided to make the move over to Sabayon, and I've just been hit with issue after issues. So first of all my wireless adapter will not connect to the network, the system appears to be able to detect the adapter as it can scan, but will not connect to my WEP open wireless network, and seeing as Ubuntu and Windows can, definatly not the network or hardware. I cant seem to find anything on this specific problem on the forum, any help is greatly appreciated.
Another problem is that I cannot use the volume buttons on my keyboard, they are correctly assigned in system settings. I'm just about to emerge Kmix to see if that would fix it, but I dont think it will. I also have this problem of all corners and sides of the touchpad cause the mouse to scroll, can this be disabled? Checked system settings to no avail.

Thanks,


MM

[lazevedo]

Could you please give some info about your hardware?

[micia]

also check this topic for touchpad configuration:
http://forum.sabayonlinux.org/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=16817

[minimayhem]

of course! Dont know why i didnt in my first post

00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 Host Bridge (rev 10)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:05.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:06.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc RS480 PCI Bridge
00:12.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 Non-Raid-5 SATA
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI0)
00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI1)
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI2)
00:13.3 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI3)
00:13.4 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB (OHCI4)
00:13.5 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 USB Controller (EHCI)
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS482 [Radeon Xpress 200]
05:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01)
08:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
08:01.0 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
08:01.1 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)

and thanks for that post micia, im just emerging kmix at the moment and cant restart to see effect, but i saw that your 11-x11-synaptics.fdi is the same as mine and yet you said your scrolling is disabled?

thanks!!!

MM

[micia]

and thanks for that post micia, im just emerging kmix at the moment and cant restart to see effect, but i saw that your 11-x11-synaptics.fdi is the same as mine and yet you said your scrolling is disabled?

Yes it is, I have just the two finger scrolling enabled.
Did you edit it to be the same, or it was already identical?
Because you should restart your system to see the changes.

You could use synclient utility to change touchpad parameters at runtime,
refer to its man page:

Code: Select all

man synclient


[minimayhem]

and thanks for that post micia, im just emerging kmix at the moment and cant restart to see effect, but i saw that your 11-x11-synaptics.fdi is the same as mine and yet you said your scrolling is disabled?

Yes it is, I have just the two finger scrolling enabled.
Did you edit it to be the same, or it was already identical?
Because you should restart your system to see the changes.

You could use synclient utility to change touchpad parameters at runtime,
refer to its man page:

Code: Select all

man synclient


Brilliant! Thanks, I just wasn't paying attention when comparing the files, didnt notice you had changed their status to 'false'. That solved that problem, thank you very much!!!!! In regards to the wireless problem, I emerged wicd to the system and was able to connect, authenticate (IP is static) but the wireless fails when "verifying wireless access point association"; all the settings are a'ok, google doesnt seem to have much information on this subject

thank you so much for your help so far!

[minimayhem]

and thanks for that post micia, im just emerging kmix at the moment and cant restart to see effect, but i saw that your 11-x11-synaptics.fdi is the same as mine and yet you said your scrolling is disabled?

Yes it is, I have just the two finger scrolling enabled.
Did you edit it to be the same, or it was already identical?
Because you should restart your system to see the changes.

You could use synclient utility to change touchpad parameters at runtime,
refer to its man page:

Code: Select all

man synclient


Brilliant! Thanks, I just wasn't paying attention when comparing the files, didnt notice you had changed their status to 'false'. That solved that problem, thank you very much!!!!! In regards to the wireless problem, I emerged wicd to the system and was able to connect, authenticate (IP is static) but the wireless fails when "verifying wireless access point association"; all the settings are a'ok, google doesnt seem to have much information on this subject

thank you so much for your help so far!

Ok I've just retrieved the contents on the wicd log, whcih I will paste below:

2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Connecting to wireless network CWLAN1865
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Putting interface down
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Releasing DHCP leases...
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Setting false IP...
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Stopping wpa_supplicant
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Flushing the routing table...
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Putting interface up...
2009/07/15 13:28:13 :: Attempting to authenticate...
2009/07/15 13:28:49 :: wpa_supplicant authentication may have failed.
2009/07/15 13:28:49 :: Setting static IP : 192.168.0.89
2009/07/15 13:28:49 :: Setting default gateway : 192.168.0.251
2009/07/15 13:28:49 :: Verifying AP association
2009/07/15 13:28:52 :: Connection Failed: Failed to ping the access point!
2009/07/15 13:28:52 :: exiting connection thread
2009/07/15 13:28:52 :: Sending connection attempt result association_failed

Failed to ping the access point? I'm going to have a good search on this, but do you have any idea what this problem might be?
Thanks,

MM

[Thev00d00]

make sure that NetworkManager isnt running.

/etc/init.d/NetworkManager stop

[minimayhem]

Thanks for your reply Thev00d00,

I followed your advise and stopped NetworkManager, Wicd managed to authenticate and error out much faster than before, as it used to hang on validation for a couple of minutes, but unfortunatly the error is still the same, log files look the same as quote two posts before this one. I dont understand why it doesnt work MAC filtering isnt on thats for sure!

Thanks for any and all help,

MM

[minimayhem]

Hello,

Just updating the situation, a solution has been found regarding the wireless:

Broadcom 4312 wireless adapter unable to connect to wireless, emerge wicd and stop networkmanager, if unable to connect using wicd go to Dano's post [9] on http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?pid=2508#p2508.

However the issue, for me, is now that it will connect but not be able to ping or return pings from network devices, thus no internet.

I have an on going thread http://wicd.net/punbb/viewtopic.php?id=628 but I was wondering if anyone else has had this problem, maybe not in wicd in particular but any network manager?

Thanks,

MM