I used to work with this wifi comfortably in sarge with ndiswrapper. In etch i have problems. first bcm43xx driver didn't work with the firmware extracted automatically while installation and also from the working driver in windows. I copied the files as read in /lib/hotplug/firmware. I have read in some other place fwcutter should be installed after build-essential is installed. for this i did remove/purge the fwcutter and reinstalled after installing build-essential. I have all permutation and combination. Still it was not working. now I blacklisted this bcm43xx in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist and installed ndiswrapper. everything went ok. As previously my wifi is recognised as eth0, i did alias eth0 ndiswrapper in /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper and my /etc/network/interface looks like this # The loopback network interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth0 # auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp pre-up ifconfig eth0 up pre-up grep -q ndiswrapper /proc/modules || modprobe ndiswrapper wireless_essid "mohan" wireless_key "xxxxxxxxxx" wireless_mode managed post-up ifmetric wlan0 5 # The primary network interface allow-hotplug eth1 iface eth1 inet dhcp Still after booting i get there is no eth0. I run the following script ifconfig eth0 up iwconfig eth0 rate 11M iwconfig eth0 channel 6 iwconfig eth0 essid mohan iwconfig eth0 enc xxxxxxxxxxxx dhclient eth0 first run of script couldn't get dhcp lease. I get as follows. lvgdell600m:~# /home/lvgandhi/stwireless Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:90:4b:1b:5a:b7 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:90:4b:1b:5a:b7 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 No DHCPOFFERS received. Trying recorded lease 192.168.1.103 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms Trying recorded lease 192.168.1.105 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms Trying recorded lease 192.168.1.104 PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data. --- 192.168.1.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 0ms No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. However if I run the same script second time, i get connected like this. lvgdell600m:~# /home/lvgandhi/stwireless There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 3953 killed old client process, removed PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium. All rights reserved. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/ Listening on LPF/eth0/00:90:4b:1b:5a:b7 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:90:4b:1b:5a:b7 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.103 -- renewal in 36634 seconds. Why this happens? How to get connected while booting with wireless? Why I get no eth0 initially? How to get eth0 intially? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042
