Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

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
> 
> Okay, went ahead with this and now I'm a bit further along. Wicd netork manager
> will now start, though it shows 'no wireless networks found'. Also, when I look
> at the preferences dialogue, there is no entry for 'wireless interface'.
> 
> Gnome network manager also shows no wireless interface.
> 
> Also:
> 
> 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

I would like to see the output of these three commands:

uname -a

dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'

lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'

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