* jwesleycooper@cox.net <jwesleycooper@cox.net> [2009-03-11 20:36:35 -0400]: > Forgive me, but I have absolutely no prior experience with Linux, and the bulk of my programming experience is in two forms TI-BASIC, which is a high-level language for Texas Instruments made graphing calculators, so I'm not really sure how I would go about doing this... could you possibly be a little more specific, please? > > ~John Wesley Cooper > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philipp Hagemeister [mailto:phihag@phihag.de] > Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 5:24 PM > To: jwesleycooper@cox.net > Cc: debian-laptop@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: URGENT - v5.0.0 amd64 (stable): Broadcom 4321AG Wi-Fi adapter not detected > > * PGP Signed by an unknown key > > Hi John, > > you inadvertently modified /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist, probably by typing > apt-get install linus-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64 >> etc/modprobe.d/blacklist > or something similar. Just edit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with your > favorite editor, delete line 63 onwards (you can delete any line not > starting with "blacklist" in there) and save it. > Additionally, you don't have the ndiswrapper kernel module. Why don't > you follow the official instructions at > http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper#head-dcf7b280d908028971b8420f6f8008687f89cde5 > for that? > > Cheers, > > Philipp Hagemeister > > > jwesleycooper@cox.net wrote: > > More problems!!! > > > > I managed to install what I needed, but it would seem to be malfunctioning, as the folloing commands and output appear to indicate: > > > > EXCALIBUR:/home/DRIVER# ndiswrapper -l > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 63: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 64: ignoring bad line starting with 'Building' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 65: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 66: ignoring bad line starting with 'linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 67: ignoring bad line starting with 'linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 68: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 69: ignoring bad line starting with 'Building' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 70: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > bcmwl5 : driver installed > > device (14E4:4328) present (alternate driver: ssb) > > EXCALIBUR:/home/DRIVER# ndiswrapper -m > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 63: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 64: ignoring bad line starting with 'Building' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 65: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 66: ignoring bad line starting with 'linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 67: ignoring bad line starting with 'linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 68: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 69: ignoring bad line starting with 'Building' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 70: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper ... > > > > ************************************************************************ > > * > > * The update-modules command is deprecated and should not be used! > > * > > ************************************************************************ > > > > EXCALIBUR:/home/DRIVER# modprobe ndiswrapper > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 63: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 64: ignoring bad line starting with 'Building' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 65: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 66: ignoring bad line starting with 'linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 67: ignoring bad line starting with 'linux-headers-2.6.26-1-amd64' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 68: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 69: ignoring bad line starting with 'Building' > > WARNING: /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist line 70: ignoring bad line starting with 'Reading' > > FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found. > > > > Clearly, there must be something else wrong with my configuration... but I haven't a clue what, advice please? > > > > ~John Wesley Cooper > > > > > > > -- > Philipp Hagemeister > > * Unknown Key > * 0xFAFB085C(L) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-laptop-REQUEST@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > as root, do: nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist nano is a fairly friendly text editor that's installed by default in Debian Lenny, and was in Etch as well. It's pretty easy to navigate around in. -- Cheers, Dave
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