On Tue, Apr 06, 2004 at 07:15:14PM -0600, Hyrum Wright wrote:
I've used the ndis driver to use the Windows drivers for my Broadcom 802.11g card. The driver seems to load and work fine, but when I try to configure the essid with iwconfig, it doesn't work. Nothing happens. If I try to use dhcpcd on the wlan0 interface, it fails, and the interface goes down.
Is there anybody out there who could shed some kind of light on this? If you need more information (log files, config files, etc.) let me know.
Yeah. What does your /var/log/messages say when you attempt to load the driver?
I don't have a /var/log/messages. I'm quoting from /var/log/everything/current. When I attempt to load the ndiswapper module, I get the following in the log:
Apr 7 08:45:50 [kernel] ndiswrapper version 0.6 loaded Apr 7 08:45:50 [kernel] ndiswrapper adding bcmwl5.sys
So far, so good. iwconfig reports that the wlan0 interface is up, but is doesn't have an essid. So, I try to give it one:
iwconfig wlan0 essid enterprise
Hmm, that didn't seem to work, the output from iwconfig is still the same. Well, let's just try and bring the interface up with
ifconfig wlan0 up
Okay, now ifconfig shows that wlan0 is up, but it doesn't have an inet address. No additional entries in the log appear, and the output from iwconfig remains the same. When I try to run
dhcpcd wlan0
I get the following line in the log:
Apr 7 08:51:18 [dhcpcd] timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response_
and ifconfig no longer reports wlan0 as being in existance.
Does this help?
-Hyrum
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