I have a Compaq R3240 with Ubuntu Feisty, amd64 (upgraded from Edgy, upgraded from Dapper, upgraded from Breezy, upgraded from Hoary. All amd64, and ever since Hoary I have had my Broadcom 4306 working with ndiswrapper. System is completely up to date.
Yesterday I was at the university and discovered that the wireless was not working. It was as if the university's wireless network was down, i.e., no signal. But everyone else in the room had no problems connecting to the university wireless network. I tried various things, but could not get it to see a signal. The previous time I used it was two weeks earlier, and it worked fine then. I am at home now where I use ethernet, but I can always still see signals from the neighbors. However, something is still wrong because I do not see any signals at all. Here is what I did at the command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux Devil5 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Jun 7 19:00:28 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx) netbc564 : driver installed device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo ndiswrapper -v utils version: 1.9 driver modinfo: could not open ndiswrapper: No such device [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ I checked to make sure bcm43xx is still blacklisted, and it is. I can't figure out why ndiswrapper -l shows everything is fine, but ndiswrapper -v says there is no such device. I also do not understand why ndiswrapper -l shows the bcm43xx as an alternate driver, when it is blacklisted. I also get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe bcm43xx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo rmmod bcm43xx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo modprobe bcm43xx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ How can I modprobe a module that is blacklisted, and even after removing it? Is it possible that the Broadcom 4306 died? Considering the above, that doesn't seem likely, but has anyone else ever had their Broadcom 4306 go to wireless heaven? I hope someone has some suggestions, 'cause I'm out of ideas. _______________________________________________ LinuxR3000 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pcxperience.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxr3000 Wiki at http://prinsig.se/weekee/
