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heyuxiang

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Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 14

[SOLVED] something strange with my wireless card.

hi
something is really strange with my wireless card.
i am using a HP 6515b laptop with a Broadcom B43 wireless card
it has a touchable on/off button to control the wireless card.
and i have add b43 module to kernel, it works very well

but sometimes,when arch boot , the icon's LED light is default shut down,in this case,
i can't find my wireless card with running this command : lspci
and i can't just touch that icon to open my wireless, it just doesn't work.

however, sometimes,when arch boots,the icon's LED light is default openned,and in this case
i can find my wireless card, and can touch that icon to shut down or open wireless card .

the problem is , i've no idea when it will open automactically on boot up.most of the time, i have to reboot to see if it's on

any idea about this issue will be welcome,thanks

here is a picture shows what i am talking about with the touchable on/off button and icon LED 
(seems you have to open that picture by hand )

Last edited by heyuxiang (2008-10-10 10:35:45)

heyuxiang

Member

Registered: 2008-10-09

Posts: 14

Re: [SOLVED] something strange with my wireless card.

the cool guy in #archlinux@irc.freenode.org alreadyt help me solve this issue
2 simple step:

sudo rmmod -fv b43
sudo modprobe b43

that's all
thanks