Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 14:28:13 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: 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.) [...] 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 :-( [...] Try what I suggested earlier regarding rf switch, BIOS settings and configuration under Windows. If nothing else helps, install a newer kernel and rebuild the wl module. I've been through all the BIOS options, nothing in there about wireless as far as I can tell. The switch for the wireless has no effect, other than to cause the device to disappear from lsusb. Since you keep ignoring my questions about this device under Windows, I will assume that you do not have Windows installed on this laptop. This is the weird thing: I did a reinstall of the OS yesterday to get 'clean slate' (hopefully), and when I first booted up the new install I did lspci and lsusb. lspci showed the Broadcom device as I originally posted, lsusb showed the HP integrated wireless device. I do not understand why you are not posting the relevant part of the lspci -knn output; I have asked for it repeatedly. I would like to try to install a newer kernel, but I'm having trouble finding where to get that. I did apt-cache search linux-image to see what was available, but nothing newer than mine was listed. Right now I have 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP. If you run Squeeze then it should be possible to install a 2.6.30 kernel from Sid; backports.org has 2.6.30 kernel images for Lenny. Okay, I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30 and rebuilt the driver with module-assistant. tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' 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/2.6.30-1-686/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.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/2.6.30-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko It's just not there anymore. I'm not sure how to proceed from here. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:47:03 -0400, JoeHill wrote: [...] Okay, I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30 and rebuilt the driver with module-assistant. tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' 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/2.6.30-1-686/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.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/2.6.30-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko It's just not there anymore. I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Your problem might be due to broken hardware, see Rob Owens's message earlier in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg00478.html If you cannot get a warranty replacement then you should consider buying a cheap and well-supported USB or PCMCIA wireless device, as Rob also suggested; this approach is often preferable to endless fighting with flaky built-in hardware. (The possibility of hardware failure was the main reason why I kept nagging about trying the device under Windows, to have an independent test under an OS that is officially supported by the manufacturer.) -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Jul 08, 2009 at 10:47:03 -0400, JoeHill wrote: [...] Okay, I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.30 and rebuilt the driver with module-assistant. tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' 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/2.6.30-1-686/kernel/net/wireless/lib80211.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/2.6.30-1-686/kernel/drivers/net/wireless/wl.ko It's just not there anymore. I'm not sure how to proceed from here. Your problem might be due to broken hardware, see Rob Owens's message earlier in this thread: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/07/msg00478.html If you cannot get a warranty replacement then you should consider buying a cheap and well-supported USB or PCMCIA wireless device, as Rob also suggested; this approach is often preferable to endless fighting with flaky built-in hardware. Good point. I'm certainly not in any hurry to continue this masochistic exercise. I definitely appreciate your patience. I found this: http://rt2x00.serialmonkey.com/ and this: http://www.pccanada.com/viewitem.asp?id=8942 and I've found a couple of people who can confirm that they are using the rt73 driver without hassle. If anyone else is looking for Linux compatible wireless devices, this was a useful link for me: http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_hostif.php?hostif=USB (The possibility of hardware failure was the main reason why I kept nagging about trying the device under Windows, to have an independent test under an OS that is officially supported by the manufacturer.) If only there were some sort of Windows 'live cd' for testing purposes. Thanks very much for all your help :) -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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 lono 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! -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: 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 lono 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 :-( It seems that your system still does not recognize the presence of the Broadcom device reliably. You have to check the lspci output before anything else. (The rmmod lines for the successful attempts show that the system had already loaded another driver for the device, which only happens if it is recognized.) Help! Try what I suggested earlier regarding rf switch, BIOS settings and configuration under Windows. If nothing else helps, install a newer kernel and rebuild the wl module. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: 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 lono 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 :-( It seems that your system still does not recognize the presence of the Broadcom device reliably. You have to check the lspci output before anything else. (The rmmod lines for the successful attempts show that the system had already loaded another driver for the device, which only happens if it is recognized.) Help! Try what I suggested earlier regarding rf switch, BIOS settings and configuration under Windows. If nothing else helps, install a newer kernel and rebuild the wl module. I've been through all the BIOS options, nothing in there about wireless as far as I can tell. The switch for the wireless has no effect, other than to cause the device to disappear from lsusb. This is the weird thing: I did a reinstall of the OS yesterday to get 'clean slate' (hopefully), and when I first booted up the new install I did lspci and lsusb. lspci showed the Broadcom device as I originally posted, lsusb showed the HP integrated wireless device. I would like to try to install a newer kernel, but I'm having trouble finding where to get that. I did apt-cache search linux-image to see what was available, but nothing newer than mine was listed. Right now I have 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP. Thanks again. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 14:28:13 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: 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.) [...] 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 :-( [...] Try what I suggested earlier regarding rf switch, BIOS settings and configuration under Windows. If nothing else helps, install a newer kernel and rebuild the wl module. I've been through all the BIOS options, nothing in there about wireless as far as I can tell. The switch for the wireless has no effect, other than to cause the device to disappear from lsusb. Since you keep ignoring my questions about this device under Windows, I will assume that you do not have Windows installed on this laptop. This is the weird thing: I did a reinstall of the OS yesterday to get 'clean slate' (hopefully), and when I first booted up the new install I did lspci and lsusb. lspci showed the Broadcom device as I originally posted, lsusb showed the HP integrated wireless device. I do not understand why you are not posting the relevant part of the lspci -knn output; I have asked for it repeatedly. I would like to try to install a newer kernel, but I'm having trouble finding where to get that. I did apt-cache search linux-image to see what was available, but nothing newer than mine was listed. Right now I have 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP. If you run Squeeze then it should be possible to install a 2.6.30 kernel from Sid; backports.org has 2.6.30 kernel images for Lenny. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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=c01087277cc=usdlc=enlc=enjumpid=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
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 14:28:13 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:29:50 -0400, JoeHill wrote: 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.) [...] 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 :-( [...] Try what I suggested earlier regarding rf switch, BIOS settings and configuration under Windows. If nothing else helps, install a newer kernel and rebuild the wl module. I've been through all the BIOS options, nothing in there about wireless as far as I can tell. The switch for the wireless has no effect, other than to cause the device to disappear from lsusb. Since you keep ignoring my questions about this device under Windows, I will assume that you do not have Windows installed on this laptop. Sorry about that, but yes, you're right. I don't even know where I would get Windows from anymore. This is the weird thing: I did a reinstall of the OS yesterday to get 'clean slate' (hopefully), and when I first booted up the new install I did lspci and lsusb. lspci showed the Broadcom device as I originally posted, lsusb showed the HP integrated wireless device. I do not understand why you are not posting the relevant part of the lspci -knn output; I have asked for it repeatedly. Okay, but the device is gone again. There is no output for it in lspci right now: tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' tablet:/home/lajolla# I would like to try to install a newer kernel, but I'm having trouble finding where to get that. I did apt-cache search linux-image to see what was available, but nothing newer than mine was listed. Right now I have 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP. If you run Squeeze then it should be possible to install a 2.6.30 kernel from Sid; backports.org has 2.6.30 kernel images for Lenny. I'm going to give that a shot, then and I'll report back. Thanks again for all of your assistance. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
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 lono 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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 16:22:40 -0400, 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.) Tried again after a reboot: 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 tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis' wl 1267176 0 ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 wl but still: tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Note: There is no point in trying to ifup the device as long as it is not listed by iwconfig. So, your kernel does load the module without obvious problems, but no new network device becomes available. This means that the kernel does not recognize your hardware as supported by this module (or by any other driver that it knows). Please post the output of this: lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 16:22:40 -0400, 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.) Tried again after a reboot: 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 tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis' wl 1267176 0 ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 wl but still: tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device Note: There is no point in trying to ifup the device as long as it is not listed by iwconfig. Heh, okay. So, your kernel does load the module without obvious problems, but no new network device becomes available. This means that the kernel does not recognize your hardware as supported by this module (or by any other driver that it knows). Is that maybe remedied by a newer kernel? Please post the output of this: lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' No output :-( -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:35:38 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 16:22:40 -0400, 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.) Tried again after a reboot: 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 tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis' wl 1267176 0 ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 wl but still: tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. [...] Please post the output of this: lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' No output :-( What about this: lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 10:35:38 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 16:22:40 -0400, 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.) Tried again after a reboot: 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 tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis' wl 1267176 0 ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 wl but still: tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. [...] Please post the output of this: lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' No output :-( What about this: lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' 00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a3) 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:55:06 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Earlier, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Please post the output of this: lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' No output :-( What about this: lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' 00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a3) 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] What, then, makes you think that you have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) wireless adapter? Is there a PCMCIA card with this chipset? -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 11:55:06 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: Earlier, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Please post the output of this: lspci -knn | grep -iEA2 'broadcom|bcm|wireless|wifi' No output :-( What about this: lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' tablet:/home/lajolla# lspci -nn | grep -Ei 'net|lan|14e4|4328' 00:14.0 Bridge [0680]: nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller [10de:0269] (rev a3) 00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control [1022:1103] What, then, makes you think that you have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) wireless adapter? Is there a PCMCIA card with this chipset? That's weird. I swear when I started this whole thing, I ran 'lspci', and got that output. I mean, really, where else could I have gotten that? It was pasted from a terminal, and I don't have any other machines in here with wireless :-) On the front of the notebook, there a label which says 'Broadcom Wireless', and underneath that is an antenna symbol, the word 'Wireless', and a switch to turn the wireless on or off. I of course have tried all this with the indicator in both positions. However, now when I run lsusb, I get this: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module] Could I have changed something when I installed the Windows driver from HP with ndiswrapper? I've since removed the driver _and_ ndiswrapper. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sat, 4 Jul 2009 13:51:30 -0400 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com wrote: Thierry Chatelet wrote: ... 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? You may find this link helpful: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/git-guide Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sun, Jul 05, 2009 at 15:39:47 -0400, JoeHill wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] What, then, makes you think that you have a Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03) wireless adapter? Is there a PCMCIA card with this chipset? That's weird. I swear when I started this whole thing, I ran 'lspci', and got that output. I mean, really, where else could I have gotten that? It was pasted from a terminal, and I don't have any other machines in here with wireless :-) I also assumed that you had pasted the text because it was a verbatim copy of the relevant part of /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. I was therefore very surprised when nothing showed up with lspci. On the front of the notebook, there a label which says 'Broadcom Wireless', and underneath that is an antenna symbol, the word 'Wireless', and a switch to turn the wireless on or off. I of course have tried all this with the indicator in both positions. Just to be sure: Did you reboot after changing the state of the switch? It might also be worthwhile to enter the BIOS setup and look for an option related to the wireless interface. (The accessibility of such an option, should it exist, might depend on the on/off setting.) However, now when I run lsusb, I get this: Bus 002 Device 003: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard Wireless (Bluetooth + WLAN) Interface [Integrated Module] Do you have any USB devices plugged in that could be (mis)identified like that? I do not immediately see how a network device could shift from the PCI to the USB subsystem like that. Could I have changed something when I installed the Windows driver from HP with ndiswrapper? I've since removed the driver _and_ ndiswrapper. As far as I remember, there are network adapters whose Windows drivers can put them in a state that makes them unusable under Linux (until one boots Windows and changes the relevant configuration). It may be possible that a Windows driver under ndiswrapper can have the same effect. Unfortunately I do not know enough about this issue to judge how likely such a scenario is for the BCM4328. If there is a Windows installation on the laptop then I would use it to check the wireless configuration. Trouble can hide behind seemingly innocuous configuration options like energy saving or auto-suspend. -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:12:06 +0200, Klistvud wrote: [...] Another suggestion: the proprietary driver downloadable from broadcom's website works exceedingly well for BCM4321, so chances are it would work with your hardware as well. The driver comes with exhaustive instructions for compiling, so it is relatively hassle-free to install. But, needless to say, it does not follow the Debian free software guidelines... and is therefore not supported by Debian in any way, I think. The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid in the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:12:06 +0200, Klistvud wrote: [...] Another suggestion: the proprietary driver downloadable from broadcom's website works exceedingly well for BCM4321, so chances are it would work with your hardware as well. The driver comes with exhaustive instructions for compiling, so it is relatively hassle-free to install. But, needless to say, it does not follow the Debian free software guidelines... and is therefore not supported by Debian in any way, I think. The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid in the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html Do I need to remove ndiswrapper first, or is it enough to simply unload the Windows driver? Many thanks! -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 12:12:06 +0200, Klistvud wrote: [...] Another suggestion: the proprietary driver downloadable from broadcom's website works exceedingly well for BCM4321, so chances are it would work with your hardware as well. The driver comes with exhaustive instructions for compiling, so it is relatively hassle-free to install. But, needless to say, it does not follow the Debian free software guidelines... and is therefore not supported by Debian in any way, I think. The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid in the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html Okay, went ahead with this and now I'm a bit further along. Wicd netork manager will now start, though it shows 'no wireless networks found'. Also, when I look at the preferences dialogue, there is no entry for 'wireless interface'. Gnome network manager also shows no wireless interface. Also: tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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! -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Klistvud wrote: Dne, 02. 07. 2009 06:22:48 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a): 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 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.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Another suggestion: the proprietary driver downloadable from broadcom's website works exceedingly well for BCM4321, so chances are it would work with your hardware as well. The driver comes with exhaustive instructions for compiling, so it is relatively hassle-free to install. But, needless to say, it does not follow the Debian free software guidelines... and is therefore not supported by Debian in any way, I thik. I am having a lot of trouble locating the driver for this device on the broadcom site. The only network drivers I see so far are for ethernet NIC's. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:46:08 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid in
the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html
Okay, went ahead with this and now I'm a bit further along. Wicd netork
manager
will now start, though it shows 'no wireless networks found'. Also, when I
look
at the preferences dialogue, there is no entry for 'wireless interface'.
Gnome network manager also shows no wireless interface.
Also:
tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
I would like to see the output of these three commands:
uname -a
dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
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Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:46:08 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid in
the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html
Okay, went ahead with this and now I'm a bit further along. Wicd netork
manager will now start, though it shows 'no wireless networks found'. Also,
when I look at the preferences dialogue, there is no entry for 'wireless
interface'.
Gnome network manager also shows no wireless interface.
Also:
tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
I would like to see the output of these three commands:
uname -a
dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
tablet:/home/lajolla# uname -a
Linux tablet 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
tablet:/home/lajolla# dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print
$1,$2,$3}'
ii broadcom-sta-common 5.10.91.9-1
un broadcom-sta-modules none
ii broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.26-2-686 5.10.91.9-1+2.6.26-17
ii broadcom-sta-source 5.10.91.9-1
pn ndiswrapper-common none
rc ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26-2-686 1.54-2+2.6.26-17
ii ndiswrapper-source 1.54-2
un ndiswrapper-utils none
pn ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 none
tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
tablet:/home/lajolla#
I'm thinking that last command should have had _some_ output...
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Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 14:30:56 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:46:08 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid in
the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html
[...]
tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
[...]
tablet:/home/lajolla# uname -a
Linux tablet 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
tablet:/home/lajolla# dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk
'/^[^D|+]/{print
$1,$2,$3}'
ii broadcom-sta-common 5.10.91.9-1
un broadcom-sta-modules none
ii broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.26-2-686 5.10.91.9-1+2.6.26-17
ii broadcom-sta-source 5.10.91.9-1
pn ndiswrapper-common none
rc ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26-2-686 1.54-2+2.6.26-17
ii ndiswrapper-source 1.54-2
un ndiswrapper-utils none
pn ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 none
tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
I'm thinking that last command should have had _some_ output...
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.)
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Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 14:30:56 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:46:08 -0400, JoeHill wrote:
Florian Kulzer wrote:
[...]
The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. wl) is included in Squeeze and Sid
in the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html
[...]
tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig
lono wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
[...]
tablet:/home/lajolla# uname -a
Linux tablet 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux
tablet:/home/lajolla# dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk
'/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
ii broadcom-sta-common 5.10.91.9-1
un broadcom-sta-modules none
ii broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.26-2-686 5.10.91.9-1+2.6.26-17
ii broadcom-sta-source 5.10.91.9-1
pn ndiswrapper-common none
rc ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26-2-686 1.54-2+2.6.26-17
ii ndiswrapper-source 1.54-2
un ndiswrapper-utils none
pn ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 none
tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis'
I'm thinking that last command should have had _some_ output...
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.)
The only output I get from modprobe (every time) is:
WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it
will be ignored in a future release.
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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.) Tried again after a reboot: 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 tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis' wl 1267176 0 ieee80211_crypt 5124 1 wl but still: tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig lono wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
Dne, 02. 07. 2009 06:22:48 je Thierry Chatelet napisal(a): 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 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.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Another suggestion: the proprietary driver downloadable from broadcom's website works exceedingly well for BCM4321, so chances are it would work with your hardware as well. The driver comes with exhaustive instructions for compiling, so it is relatively hassle-free to install. But, needless to say, it does not follow the Debian free software guidelines... and is therefore not supported by Debian in any way, I thik. Good luck! -- Certifiable Loonix User 481801 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
2009/7/2 JoeHill joeh...@teksavvy.com: 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. There is better way if you use Debian Lenny Try install b43-fwcutter package. aptitude install b43-fwcutter Regards Mariusz Sielicki -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Help with ndiswrapper and Broadcom wireless
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 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.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
