Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

[JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>]

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  
> > 
> > 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'

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'
tablet:/home/lajolla# 

I'm thinking that last command should have had _some_ output...

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J