Chris-
Thanks a lot for taking the trouble to put up this post; it's just about
the only page currently on the web discussing linux on the
X301.
I've followed your instructions on building the wifi drivers and now
have Ubuntu Hardy running with wifi for my Intel 5300 card. I'm still
having a problem, however, and I wanted to check with you to see if you
had seen similar behavior.
What is happening to me is this: my wifi locks up my keyboard after about
two suspend/resume cycles. In more detail:
- I boot my X301 and log in.
- NetworkManager sees my wifi access point and connects me.
- Suspend & resume (with, say fn-f4 or lid-close).
- NetworkManager gets me back on the net.
- Suspend & resume a second time.
- What happens now is that the machine comes up, and I can use it. Meanwhile, NetworkManager is trying to get me on the net. After about 30 seconds, the syslog says
Code:
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
As *soon* as this happens, (1) the keyboard goes catatonic, and (2) nm-applet's shows the "spinning circle" animation that it does when trying to get on the net. It stays this way permanently -- I never get back on the net, and the keyboard never comes back alive. What's odd is that, although the *keyboard* is catatonic, the *mouse* works: I can manipulate windows -- move them, select them, etc -- with the mouse, and even shut the machine down by using the mouse to select "shutdown" from the gnome menus. (However, at this point, the machine's frequently unable to go all the way down -- it frequently can't unmount /, so it winds up remounting it read-only and then hanging.)
I am completely stuck. I tried to manipulate the network using just
iwconfig and dhclient, without using the NetworkManager, but couldn't
even get on the network that way.
Have you experienced similar behavior? Might you have advice?
Thanks!
-Olin Shivers