HP tx2510us

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August 29, 2008 I bought a HP tx2510us Tablet PC. This is my story loading openSUSE v11.0 ...

Contents 1 Tablet Specs 2 Fixing things 2.1 Wireless 2.2 Network Port 2.3 digitizers

Tablet Specs

Fixing things

Not all hardware was detected off the bat.

Wireless

It came stock with a Mini PCI-E Broadcom 4322ag. Supports a/b/g/n... Well some version of Draft-N, supposedly.

lspci -nn | grep Broad shows the following:

3:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Broadcom Corporation BCM4322 802.11a/b/g/n Wireless LAN Controller [14e4:432b] (rev 01)

Go get the driver from Broadcom! Who would have guessed?
http://www.broadcom.com/support/802.11/linux_sta.php

Didn't work. iwlist scan returned an error and wireless LED was still yellow (blue = "on").

Ordered a Intel 3945 (a/b/g) from eBay for $21 shipped. Yea baby!

Network Port

RealTek something...

   It seems that the controller doesn't generate any interrupts, maybe a problem
   with MSI. Please unload forcedeth and load it with
   modprobe forcedeth msi=0
   ==>

   You are likely running a different driver, but you should try to
   unload it and then reload it with msi=0.

   If that works, then follow the rest of the thread for how I did the
   permanent fix.

   Greg
   --
   Greg Freemyer

Hi Greg,

Thanks for the pointer. I've tried that but it doesn't work. Seems that msi=0 is a parameter specific to the forcedeth module. The module used for RTL8168 is r8169. When I tried to run modprobe r8169 msi=0, dmesg says it is an unknown parameter.

Nevertheless, I've found the source of the problem - Windows. XP is installed on this machine that I'm trying the Live CD on. Turns out that XP turns off the Wake on LAN feature when shutting down. The r8169 driver doesn't have the ability to turn this feature back on.

To solve this problem, I gotta go back to XP, use the Device Manager to change the "Wake on LAN on shutdown" feature to "Enable". This solved the NIC issue completely!

digitizers