Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

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

On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:35:38 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
> 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.

[...]

> > Please post the output of this:
> > 
> > lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi'
> 
> No output :-(

What about this:

lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328'

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