Re: debian lenny on Acer Extensa 4420-5963
On Thu, 2008-09-11 at 21:09 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> I would try to load the module and check the syslog for messages, i.e.
>
> modprobe -v b43
>
> grep -i b43 /var/log/syslog
>
monad:/home/dto# modprobe -v b43
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/input/input-polldev.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/net/wireless/cfg80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/net/mac80211/mac80211.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/char/hw_random/rng-core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/net/rfkill/rfkill.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26.5-rt8/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/b43/b43.ko
monad:/home/dto#
Sep 11 18:41:06 monad kernel: [17374.556631] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded
[ Features: PMLR, Firmware-ID: FW13 ]
monad:/home/dto#
monad:/home/dto# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
monad:/home/dto#
> If your computer loads the module and then complains about missing
> firmware then you know what you have to investigate next.
>
> If your computer loads the module and produces another error message
> then you have something to feed to Google and hope for the best.
>
> If your computer loads the module without error message but does not
> create a wireless device node (check with /sbin/iwconfig) then you may
> have to try going via ndiswrapper as has already been suggested earlier.
>
> In any case it is probably a good idea to post here what you get from
> the syslog; maybe somebody else will have a better idea about what is
> going on.
>
> --
> Regards, | http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer
> Florian |
>
>
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