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jbwillia
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 Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:27 am Post subject: wireless in laptop [SOLVED] |
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OK, maybe this has been asked, maybe not...I've read through about as many wireless, ndis, etc posts as I can stand and cannot seem to find the answer to my problem anywhere. Here's my situation:
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heimdall ~ # lspci | grep -i network
0000:03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
heimdall ~ # ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present
heimdall ~ # lsmod | grep ndis
ndiswrapper 108948 3787041149
heimdall net # ls /sys/class/net/
eth0 lo
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As can be seen above, I can't seem to find a device that corresponds to my card. It doesn't appear that udev is mapping anything for it in /dev ... I've tried wlan0, eth1, etc .... eth0 is my standard e1000 ethernet connection. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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pilla
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:45 am Post subject: |
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What does iwconfig tells you?
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:49 am Post subject: iwconfig |
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ahh yes, I forgot that one above...thanks
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heimdall ~ # iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
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pilla
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:55 am Post subject: |
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according to the Wiki, you should get the following after a ndiswrapper -l :
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Installed ndis drivers
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
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You seem to be missing the "hardware present" thing. Isn't it disabled by the function keys of your computer or something like that?
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:07 am Post subject: interesting |
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i didn't even notice that....anyways, yes there is a function key above the keyboard that enables/disables the wireless card in wondoze but it doesn't do anything in linux. Is there some other way to activate the card? I hate gateway for building it this way, but oh well, I didn't buy it (it's work provided).
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 4:12 am Post subject: rfswitch |
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I've just discovered the ebuild rfswitch... I'll have to give that some play... thanks for the pointers.
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pilla
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 2:10 pm Post subject: |
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Their laptop matrix is not very encouraging for Gateway laptops. What's your model?
BTW, when it comes up, it'll probably come as wlan0.
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Alpo Nestori
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 3:31 pm Post subject: Re: wireless in laptop |
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My references to wlan0 are in /etc/modules.conf as 'alias wlan0 ndiswrapper' .That ndiswrapper should add for you with ndiswrapper -m. Then i made a symbolic link /etc/conf.d/wlan0 which points to /etc/conf.d/net
Then it's just 'dhcpcd wlan0' as root and it's ready. I don't even run ifconfig of iwconfig cause they seem to kill my link for some reason. You shouldn't even need them if everything is setup correctly in /etc/wireless/wireless.opts, ESSID="network" for one.
Have you activated the wireless extensions in the kernel?
->Device drivers -> Networking support:
Wireless LAN
PCMCIA Network device |
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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| pilla wrote: | Their laptop matrix is not very encouraging for Gateway laptops. What's your model?
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Neither of their two modules worked, and no it doesn't look very encouraging. I have a Gateway M675.
| Alpo Nestori wrote: | Have you activated the wireless extensions in the kernel?
->Device drivers -> Networking support:
Wireless LAN
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Yes I have, but unfortunately the card itself is dead unless I can turn it on. In windoze, the sofware recognizes when I push the wireless function button above my keyboard and then somehow turns the card on. This is what rfswitch is supposed to do for laptops like mine. Unforunately, they haven't done anything for gateway laptops yet.
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pilla
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| Posted: Sun Apr 24, 2005 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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Have you downloaded the windows driver or got the one that came with the CD? Here they say you should download from a link they give there.
I read in one comment about it that there should be no need of a software agent to turn it on -- after the driver is correctly loaded, it should work.
Would you mind trying to reinstall ndiswrapper?
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 3:01 am Post subject: |
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alright, I'm getting there....this is what I get now after removing the other driver I got out of windoze and adding the one I downloaded:
| Code: | jbwillia@heimdall ~ $ ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
jbwillia@heimdall ~ $ sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
jbwillia@heimdall ~ $ lsmod
Module Size Used by
ndiswrapper 109354 1
snd_pcm_oss 50080 0
snd_mixer_oss 18944 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq_oss 36096 0
snd_seq_midi_event 7168 1 snd_seq_oss
snd_seq 53648 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event
snd_seq_device 8332 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq
snd_intel8x0 30528 1
snd_ac97_codec 76536 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm 85380 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec
snd_timer 22916 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd 49380 11 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
snd_page_alloc 8836 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
jbwillia@heimdall ~ $ iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
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So it seems the new driver actually ses the hardware, but ndiswrapper did not register the new interface. I am going to try rebootiong as soon as openoffice-ximian finishes compiling.............well, nevermind, it's wrapping up now (after about 5 or 6 hours  ) I'll post when I know more. Thanks.
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jbwillia
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 4:33 am Post subject: |
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SWEET .... thank you pilla!!! ... I am now using wireless via wpa_supplicant and ndiswrapper .... once I got the new driver and rebooted, everything fell into place. The radio button is apparently now controlled by the windoze driver via ndiswrapper because while ndiswrapper is loaded in the kernel, I can turn it on and off just like in windoze. Now I need to find some way of determining which connection to load because if I leave eth0 in the default run level it pauses for a really long time during boot while it waits for dhcp to timeout. That's childs play though  I guess I need to go about switching this thread to solved. Thanks again.
| Code: | jbwillia@heimdall /etc/init.d $ iwconfig
eth0 no wireless extensions.
lo no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"valhalla"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:77:64:5A
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:15 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-45 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:26 Invalid misc:928 Missed beacon:0
jbwillia@heimdall /etc/init.d $ ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:300 (300.0 b) TX bytes:300 (300.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:72:F7:6F
inet addr:192.168.1.100 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:725 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:723 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:525178 (512.8 Kb) TX bytes:100390 (98.0 Kb)
Interrupt:19 Memory:e0304000-e0305fff
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warravenfk2001
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| Posted: Mon Apr 25, 2005 11:10 pm Post subject: |
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ah, my first post :-p
anywho, to lower the time that it takes for eth0 to try to communicate w/ the dhcp server you can add this to your /etc/conf.d/net
| Code: | # For passing custom options to dhcpcd use something like the following. This
# example reduces the timeout for retrieving an address from 60 seconds (the
# default) to 10 seconds.
#dhcpcd_eth0="-t 10"
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i got it out of /etc/conf.d/net.example there are a bunch of other options you can use if you're interested. [/code]
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pilla
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| Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2005 12:59 am Post subject: |
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I'm glad you sorted it out.
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