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b.libbey
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 Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: Broadcom Hell |
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Hi,
I have a Broadcom 4318. I wish I knew how bad it would be before I bought it!
I've just followed the directions on a tutorial to hopefully get it working, but I realized I'm missing /etc/init.d/net.eth1 . I think I need that if I'm going to use wireless, right? when I run ifconfig, there's no mention of eth1: just lo and eth0 (wired).
Do I need to add something to /etc/conf.d/net ? There's no mention of eth1 in there either.
I really need help. I've had this laptop for 4 months and I still haven't gotten the wireless to work.
Thanks very much
Burke Libbey |
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kabage
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Joined: 31 Jan 2005
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| Posted: Thu Sep 28, 2006 6:52 am Post subject: Which tutorial |
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did you use.
I'm using the same card so I know it works, but I think there is about 3-4 ways nowdays
so what driver?
The driver usually will determine if your wireless is eth1, wlan0, ath0 or whatever
then all you need is link to net.lo
If you have wireless-tools emerged then you can just do
if your driver is loaded properly you should see the name of your wireless device eth1, ath0, wlan0 or whatever
I'm using ndiswrapper with a windows driver so mine is named wlan0
so I will use that for an example.
**Note that is with baselayout -1.1.12 and greater
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ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.wlan0
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if your using an older baselayout you can just copy net.eth0 to net.wlan0 or net.eth1 or whatever you need.
you will also need to configure /etc/conf.d/wireless
see the /etc/conf.d/wireless.example
when you are ready to test
just use
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/etc/init.d/net.wlan0 start
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to have it start on start up just use
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rc-update add net.wlan0 default
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