3 issues, please help me

[Michael D. Stemle]

Not all graphics cards support dimming at the ACPI level, but I think
that one does (I think that's the x3100 model).  I think that might be
the known issue with kmilo not playing nice with the dimmer buttons.

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 17:08 +0100, deguz wrote:
> Hi all!
> I'm new at this list, so maybe other people have already talked about
> these issues. If so, i apologize.
> Well, then let's begin.
> First of all, i use Kubuntu 7.10, up to date version.
> 
> First one:
> Short version: wlan.
> Longest version: I have a hp compaq 6720s notebook, and i can't get
> wifi working. I already tried with ndiswrapper and bcm43xx too. It
> didn't work with any solution. Now ndiswrapper is installed, and
> everything seems to work fine, but wlan doesn't work. It seems the
> driver can't reach the hardware. The wlan button isn't working.
> Output of iwconfig:
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
>           RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
> Output of iwlist wlan0 scan:
> wlan0     No scan results
> But it's not correct, there are wlan networks here.
> dmesg says:
> dmesg |grep ndis
> [   16.680000] ndiswrapper version 1.50 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
> [   16.772000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006,
> 4.100.15.5) loaded
> [   16.780000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
> [   16.988000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
> dmesg |grep wlan0
> [   16.984000] wlan0: ethernet device 00:1a:73:9b:84:8c using NDIS
> driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS
> Network Adapter', 14E4:4311.5.conf
> [   16.984000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA,
> WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
> [   77.568000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> ndiswrapper -l says:
> ndiswrapper -l
> bcmwl5 : driver installed
>         device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
> lspci |grep Broad
> 10:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan
> mini-PCI (rev 02)
> I think the problem is with the wlan button, it is blue (it works)
> until GRUB loads, but when GRUB loads, it turns off, and i can't turn
> it on. I really need to use wlan, please help me.
> 
> Second one:
> In this laptop there is an intel integrated video card, and i can't
> get compiz working.
> when i try to load compiz, the top of the windows' (the title bar) go
> away, and i can't control them, they stuck onto the place where they
> were.
> lspci |grep VGA
> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile
> GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c)
> 
> And the third one:
> I think i'm not alone with this, the brightness up and brightness down
> button don't work. I can set the brightness up and down with Power
> Manager, but not with the buttons. when i tried to set to those
> buttons as a shortcut to another command, the shortcut handler didn't
> see these buttons.
> 
> Best regards,
> deguz
>