Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 16:22:40 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >
> > > 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.)
> >
> > Tried again after a reboot:
> >
> > tablet:/home/lajolla# modprobe -v wl
> > WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it
> > will be ignored in a future release.
> > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt.ko
> > install /sbin/modprobe -qr b43 ssb; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install wl
> > WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it
> > will be ignored in a future release.
> > insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko
> >
> > tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
> > wl 1267176 0
> > ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 wl
> >
> > but still:
> >
> > 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
>
> Note: There is no point in trying to ifup the device as long as it is
> not listed by iwconfig.
Heh, okay.
> So, your kernel does load the module without obvious problems, but no
> new network device becomes available. This means that the kernel does
> not recognize your hardware as supported by this module (or by any other
> driver that it knows).
Is that maybe remedied by a newer kernel?
> Please post the output of this:
>
> lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi'
No output :-(
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J
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