Lenovo 3000 c200 installation issues remaining

[James crawford]

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>> > From: JT Moree <moreejt at pcxperience.com>
>> > Subject: Lenovo 3000 c200 installation issues remaining
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>>> > > 24x/24x writer dvd-ram cd/rw xa/form2 cdda tray. I can play the FBI
>>> > > warning and the beginning credits on Ogle, and Gnomes player however
>>> > > both of the players stop when the movie starts questioning the
>>> > > libdvdcss2 driver. I have confirmed that it is installed so I'm lost.
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>> > have you tried playing with mplayer at the command line? I think there
>> > may be a debug output option you can use to get more info too.
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> The only things that came up running Ogle, Xine and Mplayer were
> problems with libdvdread and too many video packets in the buffer try
> using -ni option for non-interleaved (which I did) or the codec
> failed.
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>>> > > Broadcom chip covered in it. I can see my hardware with iwconfig. I
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>> > There are issues with in kernel broadcom driver.  If you try to use the
>> > ndiswrapper you also have to blacklist the broadcom driver--which may
>> > not work because the driver is also in the initrd and the kernel
>> > sometimes loads it anyway.
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> I blacklisted bcm43xx when I was trying Ndiswrapper. Thing is the inf
> file loaded fine but no hardware was detected at all. At least with
> fw-cutter my hardware is being seen.
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>>> > > bcm43xx: Radio turned on
>>> > > bcm43xx: Radio disabled by hardware
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>> > This looks like the hardware switch is turned off.  Do you have a button
>> > for the wireless or a Fn key combination?
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> I have a button on the front that is switched to on and the little
> light on the front flashes and stays on too. However, for some reason
> dmesg shows that the hardware has been turned off.
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I saw the same dmesg entries while setting up my HP dv5000 laptop have 
you got the correct windows driver  file loaded for ndiswrapper?

    see:
http://www.svecc.com/SLUG.htm ( link to using NDISWRAPPER a pdf) or,
http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/answers/Networking/NdisWrapper_The_Ultimate_Guide/


which I based it own.

James C.