wifi and cdwriter problems

[Dirk Freitag]

Luca Ferrari wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using 8.04 (k)ubuntu on a compaq nc8430 laptop and I'm noting strange 
> issues:
> 1) the wifi card is not working if disabled at boot time. The bluetooth (that 
> starts with the wifi switch) works, but if I turn on the wifi card after the 
> boot programs like knetworkmanager cannot see the card.
> 2) the cdwriter often is not available, and k3b claims about that. After a 
> reboot the cdwriter is agai available, and after another reboot it is no more 
> available and so on.
> 
> What can I do to solve this problems?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
> 

Depending on how dirty the laptop is, there could be dust on the 
connectors for the hardware which is stopping the OS from seeing the 
devices.  Another possibility is if you have dropped the unit at all, 
the connections could be loose.  Or it could be just that the computer 
is old, and the hardware is beginning to fail.  How long have you had 
this computer?  And how long has this been happening to you?


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Dirk Freitag
Linux Registered User Number 487244          [http://counter.li.org/]

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