Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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.)
It worked!
Well, I still am not on wireless, because I use WPA on my router and I'm not
sure how to get that configured yet on the notebook, but at least this time
when I repeated your instructions, I got this:
tablet:/home/lajolla# modprobe -v wl
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
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/ssb/ssb.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/base/firmware_class.ko
rmmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/pcmcia/pcmcia_core.ko
insmod /lib/modules/2.6.26-2-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko
tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11abgn ESSID:"" Nickname:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Bit Rate:14 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Power Managementmode:All packets received
Link Quality=5/5 Signal level=0 dBm Noise level=0 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
I learned quite a bit from this exercise, in particular that I will never buy a
machine with a Broadcom chip ;)
Many, many thanks for all your time.
--
J
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