On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:25:43 +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
[ snip: earlier discussion about different wireless hardware ]
> I am having broadcom chip 94306 for wireless (dell trumobile 1300) in my
> dell inspiron 600m. In sid I used to work without any problem with
> ndiswrapper. After reinstalling sid, now 43xx module is being loaded. With
> ndiswrapper with alias wlan0 ndiswrapper line in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
> I don't get wlan0. lsmod shows ndiswrapper. When I try to use iwconfig with
> I get wlan0 no such device. I stopped 43xx module by blacklisting, still I
> am unable to make my wireless work. Any solution please?
Are your sure that wlan0 is the correct device name?
I think that may be the main problem. Previously with kernel 2.6.15, I thought the device was made by /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper line alias wlan0 ndiswrapper
What happens if you run "iwconfig" without any parameters?
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"default"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:46:87:88:1E
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-55 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
sit0 no wireless extensions.
I think 43xx module makes this eth1.
What is the output of "ls -l /sys/class/net/"?
lvgdell600m:~# ls -l /sys/class/net/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-10-18 07:49 eth0
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 0 2006-10-18 07:49 eth1
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-10-18 07:49 lo
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 2006-10-18 07:49 sit0
I think eth1 is created by 43xx module. Should I use this module and eth1. If so how?
If not how to get rid of this and use ndiswrapper?