Re: Wireless network adapter: ndiswrapper loaded, but cannot connect to network
On Fri, 4 May 2007 16:47:37 -0500
"Selim T. Erdogan" <selim@cs.utexas.edu> wrote:
> I goofed and replied only to the sender. Forwarding to list...
>
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> Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 16:27:56 -0500
> From: "Selim T. Erdogan" <selim@cs.utexas.edu>
> To: Denis Papathanasiou <denis.papathanasiou@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Wireless network adapter: ndiswrapper loaded, but cannot connect to network
>
> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:58:26AM -0400, Denis Papathanasiou wrote:
> > >You can find the chipset by doing 'lspci', and looking for the line
> > >that corresponds to your pcmcia card.
> >
> > Hmmm... I called lspci in verbose mode (I actually did it the first
> > time you asked), but nothing comes back that looks like a chipset
> > definition:
> >
> > # lspci -vvm
> > Device: 02:00.0
> > Class: Network controller
> > Vendor: Broadcom Corporation
> > Device: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
> > SVendor: Linksys
> > SDevice: WPC54G
> > Rev: 02
>
> I helped someone out with a similar wireless device under Ubuntu
> recently. You might try using the native driver (bcm43xx) instead of
> ndiswrapper. I believe you will need to extract the firmware from
> the windows drivers. There's a debian package called bcm43xx-fwcutter
> which will do this and put the files in /lib/firmware.
> (Instructions at http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/153/213/
> also mention that it might be good to copy *.fw files from /lib/firmware
> to /lib/hotplug/firmware the author doesn't sound too sure about that.)
>
> Selim T. Erdoğan
Just be aware that bcm43xx is a hit or miss affair; my Broadcom 4318
worked with bcm43xx with kernel 2.6.18 but not with 2.6.20, and never
with WEP. There are various other reports of trouble with bcm43xx; YMMV
is particularly true here.
Celejar
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