Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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.)
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