[ILUG] weird wireless problem

[Dermot McGahon]

> I have a Thinkpad t21 with a nonname cheap wifi card.
> When ever the card is actually recieveing (being simply in
> and activiated is fine), The right hand side of my keyboard
> goes weird, almost as if the numlock key was being held down.

Only the number pad keys? In other words, is it effectively
turning the numlock key on? Is the numlock LED lit? Check
/var/log for any related messages.

I don't have a solution for your problem but the amount of
keyboard and mouse related problems I have been seeing
lately:

  * FC1, IMPS2 mouse goes crazy, rights itself after printing
    a kernel error message about lost mouse sync. Found some
    advice from Vojtech about this but it didn't fix the
    problem in this case. Changed a constant in the input
    handling layer which made the bug appear less frequently.

  * RH8, PS2 keyboard, the keyboard works fine during boot
    loader stage, but at some point during boot up it stops
    working. No KVM and tried two different keyboards. When
    it locks, caps lock is not lighting its LED at all, and
    Num Lock acting strangely i.e sometimes you have to press
    it three times for there to be a change in toggled LED
    status.

  * FC1, PS2 keyboard, gnome-terminal, possibly console too.
    Without caps lock being pressed, or the caps lock LED
    being lit, alpha keys are in upper case, and here's the
    strange bit, non alpha keys are rendered as their shifted
    value. Setting caps lock on allows lower case letters.
    Now that I write this, that sounds like a stuck shift
    key. Will try another keyboard.


Dermot.
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