Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

[JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>]

Florian Kulzer wrote: 

> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 14:30:56 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:   
> > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:46:08 -0400, JoeHill wrote:  
> > > > Florian Kulzer wrote:     
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > >   
> > > > > The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. "wl") is included in Squeeze and Sid
> > > > > in the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant:
> > > > > 
> > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html    
> 
> [...]
> 
> > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig 
> > > > lo        no wireless extensions.
> > > > 
> > > > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> > > > 
> > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up
> > > > wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device    
> 
> [...]
> 
> > tablet:/home/lajolla# uname -a
> > Linux tablet 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
> >
> > tablet:/home/lajolla# dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk
> > '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' 
> > ii broadcom-sta-common 5.10.91.9-1
> > un broadcom-sta-modules <none>
> > ii broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.26-2-686 5.10.91.9-1+2.6.26-17
> > ii broadcom-sta-source 5.10.91.9-1
> > pn ndiswrapper-common <none>
> > rc ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26-2-686 1.54-2+2.6.26-17
> > ii ndiswrapper-source 1.54-2
> > un ndiswrapper-utils <none>
> > pn ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 <none>
> > 
> > tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
> > 
> > I'm thinking that last command should have had _some_ output...  
> 
> Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or some
> error messages that tell us what goes wrong. (I suspect that you might
> need a newer kernel.)

The only output I get from modprobe (every time) is:

WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it
will be ignored in a future release.

-- 
J