On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 01:51:30PM -0400, JoeHill wrote: > Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > On Thursday 02 July 2009 05:09:51 JoeHill wrote: > > > I first tried to get wireless working following this page on the Debian > > > Wiki: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/bcm43xx > > > > > > but then found out that my particular device was not supported by that > > > driver. > > > > > > I then tried the tutorial on this page: > > > > > > http://wiki.debian.org/NdisWrapper > > > > > > I have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03), so I got the > > > driver from HP, the vendor of this notebook. It is installed, and shows up > > > in ndisgtk, but shows 'Hardware present: no'. > > > > > > I installed wicd to see if that would at least let me see more of what was > > > going on, but although it says it's running, when I try to access the wicd > > > network manager, nothing opens. Gnome network manager shows no wireless > > > connection. > > > > > > Any tips really greatly appreciated. > > > > > > -- > > > J > > > > > > A Linux driver for the Broadcom bcm43xx wireless chips. > > Broadcom never released details about these chips. So this driver is based > > upon reverse engineered specifications. > > > > This driver was included into the Linux kernel since 2.6.17-rc2. > > > > Another branch of this driver, based on the Devicescape 802.11 Stack, which > > should be the future in Linux wireless support and which supports advanced > > capabilities (namely, full WPA support), can be found in the wireless-dev > > tree: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git > > I would like to try this, but I am completely unfamiliar with how to approach > this. Is this similar to subversion? How to I retrieve this code? > > > The bcm43xx-fwcutter tool (required - see documentation for further info) > > can > > install with aptitude. > > So remove ndiswrapper and try again. > > Give some detail from ifconfig, iwconfig.. > > I already have the fwcutter tool installed from previous attempts, and I've > removed ndiswrapper. ifconfig and iwconfig both show no wireless devices. > > Many thanks! > Any chance you're affected by this:
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jumpid=reg_R1002_USEN (Thanks to somebody on this list for posting that link a while back). My Dad's got an HP DV6000 laptop and the wireless device started "disappearing" intermittently. Not it's permanently gone. It's apparently a known issue with his laptop. I bought him a USB wireless device from newegg and it works great. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16833320107 He's running Ubuntu 8.04, but I also tested the device on Debian Lenny with success. -Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org