Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless

[JoeHill <joehill@teksavvy.com>]

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.)  
> 
> 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

Okay, now it's hosed again. When I boot up and do 'modprobe -v wl', I get no
'rmmod' lines, as above, it's totally different:
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 

And, of course, I get no wireless :-(

Help!

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J