[CS-FSLUG] Locked Up Laptop - Can't Reboot

[Don Parris]

On 3/31/06, Alan Marsh <amarsh at abed-nego.com> wrote:
> Don,
>
> Could you give us some more details... like the make and model of the
> card, the distro you are running and what you used for a driver?
>

I'll follow up a bit more later, but I'm running Ubuntu Linux 5.10 on
a Dell Latitude C610 laptop.  The NIC is a Linksys G (Broadcom 4318). 
I followed the instructions on the Ubuntu wiki:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WifiDocs/Driver/Ndiswrapper?action=show&redirect=SetupNdiswrapperHowto

The main issue was making sure the wlan interface was configured
properly to match the settings of the router.  If you don't have a
match, you won't get far.  Like I said, more later.


> I have a HP zv6170us laptop running Gentoo (64 bit) (dual boot with XP Pro
> due to Windows only BIOS updates and other nonsense from HP) and it has an
> internal broadcomm card that I have not yet setup with ndiswrapper... but
> part of me would just like to buy a nic card that just works out of the
> box...
>
> I was sidelined from working on that while I built a new desktop machine
> to replace the old one which I sold to a client who needed a machine in an
> emergency.
>
> Thanks!
>
> > On 3/31/06, Tim Young <Tim.Young at lightsys.org> wrote:
> >> The standard thing to reboot a laptop is to hold down the power button
> >> for 10 seconds.
> >>
> >> - Tim Young
> >>
> >
> > Thanks, I'll have to try that.  I honestly didn't know - this is my
> > first laptop, and I haven't had to perform a hard reboot before.
> > Anyway, I got the wireless NIC working now.  I am wire-free!  Woohoo!
> > (Don jumps up and down and dances around after successfully getting
> > wireless up and running without asking anyone for help.)
> >
> > The celebration would make a great deal of sense if you knew it took 4
> > days to get the router to obtain an IP address from the cable modem
> > because I didn't let it sit un-plugged for @ 7 minutes (required if
> > your cable modem also provides digital phone connection).  After
> > geting the router working, I had difficulty with the security key
> > setting.  I settled on WEP for now, but even though I had tried to
> > change the key, it didn't seem to take.  Every time brought up the
> > wlan interface, it kept using the original key.  So I went into the
> > interfaces file and edited the entry by hand.  That worked.
> >
> > Don
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