[ale] Touchpad, ipw2200, USB Camera problems on laptop

[Dow Hurst]

I have installed SUSE 9.3 on the Compal FL30 laptop. Currently the 
touchpad is configured as a IMPS/2 Explorer type touchpad on the psaux 
port. I get a predictable error of the cursor quickly moving to the edge 
of the screen and activating mouse events with a series of uncontrolled 
mouse button pushes. Dmesg says an unknown Logitech mouse type 99 when 
booting the machine. It has a touchpad shown as * with two large buttons 
shown as X and two small buttons shown as A and B like so:

******
******
******
XXAXX
XXBXX


The errors happen randomly and the mouse function can be completely lost 
from X. I've recovered by switching to virtual terminal 1 and rebooting. 
Lost mouse error events are reported in /var/log/messages when the 
touchpad acts up. I'm not sure what type of touchpad it is and would 
like to know the best way to find out. I have the nvidia driver for 3d 
acceleration working since the laptop has Geforce Go 6200TC video hardware.

The Intel 2200 wifi worked great after the install. But later, when I 
switched the interface in Yast2 to "manual control" from "auto 
configured at boot" so I could turn it on and off when I wanted, then I 
couldn't turn the interface on. It seems permanently turned off and no 
MAC address shows in ifconfig eth1. The ipw2200 driver reports that the 
RF switch is active at boot and the rfswitch file buried in /sysfs for 
the driver reports the rfswitch=2. I can't find a way to turn the kill 
switch off such as echoing a 0 or 1 into the rfswitch file under the 
/sysfs pci bus subdirectory for the ipw2200 driver. I've tried iwpriv to 
set_power from 6 (OFF) to 0-5 but still I don't get wifi response. The 
set_power setting seems to relate to powersave modes but doesn't seem to 
affect the kill switch. There is an external LED and external Mode 
button on the laptop for the wifi. I haven't had any response from 
pressing the button that I can tell. I've even deleted the wifi 
interface in Yast2 and reinstalled/reconfigured but with no change in 
status. I don't think the ipw2200 driver has control over the kill 
switch nor does the kernel seem to have a way to control it that I have 
found.

The USB 2.0 Camera built into the laptop lid is reported by lsusb as a 
camera device on one of the USB hubs. I would like to know how to access 
and control the device. Xawtv4 doesn't find the device and neither does 
digicam.

There is a multi card reader slot in the laptop I haven't tried out yet 
for SD and MMC type cards.

The laptop is definitely a newer Compal that is just rebranded as a 
Intrex laptop (http://www.intrex.com/pcs/Notebook.aspx). Chem USA 
(www.chemusa.com) advertises it as the Sonoma Whitebook 2030 if that 
helps. It has the Intel 915GM chipset with a Pentium M CPU. I like this 
laptop alot and would like to mainly get the touchpad stable and the 
wifi back on. The camera would be nice to control but isn't the most 
important item. The other items like the firewire port and PCMCIA slot 
are reported properly and configured.

BIOS info:
Insyde Software MobilePRO BIOS Version 4.20.10
EFL30/31 BIOS Version V1.03
Pentium M 1.86GHz
1.31GB RAM
Insyde ACPI BIOS Initialized Version 4.20.09

Dmesg mouse info:
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 99
input: ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse on isa0060/serio4

and later in /var/log/messages
psmouse.c: Wheel Mouse at isa0060/serio4/input0 lost synchronization, 
throwing 2 bytes away
psmouse.c: issuing reconnect request
logips2pp: Detected unknown logitech mouse model 99
psmouse.c: failed to reset mouse on isa0060/serio1
input: PS/2 Generic Mouse on isa0060/serio1
psmouse.c: failed to enable mouse on isa0060/serio1
psmouse.c: Bad data from KBC - timeout


I'll be happy to post more info from dmesg, /proc, and /sysfs if 
requested. Any thoughts or ideas on how to address these issues? Thanks 
for your help,
Dow