Sabayon Keyboard Shortcuts

[atomichybrid]

Hi fellas,

Ive recenetly install sabayon 5.5 gnome and its working great. My question is how do i work the keyboard shortcuts?

I would normally push Function+F9 to turn my wireless on or off on windows, but on sabayon it doesnt respond to that. The only keyboard shortcuts that work are my touch pad, volume and the mute.

If there is some way to go around it would be great, also Ive just started to learn about Linux systems so forgive me if theres a any complications along the way, but i would appreciate the help.

Cheers.

 

[wmorri]

Hi,

I think the first thing is to find out if you have the correct wireless drivers for your device. I would like to know if you can post the output for the following command.

lspci

Then we can see what wireless card you have and then see if you have the correct driver installed and if not we can get the driver that you need and get you going.

Cheers!

 

[atomichybrid]

wmorri,

Thanks for the input this is what i managed to get from the 'lspci' command

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03)
00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03)
00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03)
00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E 2 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M96 [Mobility Radeon HD 4650]
01:00.1 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc RV710/730
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 5100
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8057 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 10)

 

[wmorri]

Hi,

1. I need you to download this file.
2. Unzip it to a folder, and copyhttp://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/# the "iwlwifi-5000-1.ucode" file to "/lib/firmware"
3. And then reboot the machine

That sets the IWL5100AGN driver. Then we can work on enabling your wireless if it doesn't do it itself.

Cheers!

 

[atomichybrid]

hey wmorri,

Ive managed to install the downloaded file to the directory and rebooted it. But the wireless keyboard shortcut is still a no go. Perhaps ive should have mentioned this earlier which ive forgotten, its a 64 bit Sabayon. Could there be a 64bit driver?

Cheers!

 

[wmorri]

Hi,

It should work either way. Can you tell me what make and model laptop you have and we can try and get this to work. If not then there are a couple of teminal commands that will enable your wireless.

 

[atomichybrid]

Hi,

My laptop is a Samsung R620 (NP-R620H to be specific) pretty old model from what Ive heard. The wireless works but it cant be turned off when i want it and it drains my battery considerably when its on when I dont need it, so I was just seeing if my laptop can have that shortcut feature.

Cheers

 

[wmorri]

Hi,

Try using the following commands to "shut off" and "turn on" you wireless. What you are really doing is disabling and enabling the wireless.

iwlan up 
iwlan down