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effarga
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 Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 2:52 am Post subject: [Solved] Wireless Configuration with iwconfig |
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Hello. I've been trying to get my wireless internet connection working based on the HOWTO at <http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Wireless_Configuration_and_Startup>. My computer cannot connect to the internet any other way besides through a wireless router, which is hooked up to cable internet and a windows machine.
When I run "./net.eth1 start" as per instructions of the HOWTO, I get the following:
| Code: | ./net.eth1 start
* Starting eth1
* Loading networking modules for eth1
* modules: apipa arping ccwgroup iptunnel macchanger macnet rename ifconfig system dhcpcd ip6to4
* ifconfig provides interface
* dhcpcd provides dhcp
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
* Configuring eth1 for MAC address 00:11:50:01:A3:34 ... [ ok ] * Configuration not set for eth1 - assuming DHCP
* Bringing up eth1
* dhcp
* Running dhcpcd ...
Error, dhcpStart: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory [ !! ]
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Then it stops. Here's my iwconfig:
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lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
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And last but not least, an interesting part of my dmesg:
| Code: | e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.10-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:03.0[A] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xf43ff000, irq 19, MAC addr 00:90:27:1C:54:42
ieee80211_crypt: registered algorithm 'NULL'
ieee80211: 802.11 data/management/control stack, git-1.1.7
ieee80211: Copyright (C) 2004-2005 Intel Corporation <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
bcm43xx driver
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:04.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 16
bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled
bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2
bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: Radio turned off
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
bcm43xx: PHY connected
bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready |
Any ideas on how to solve this problem?
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effarga
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| Posted: Sat Oct 21, 2006 3:13 am Post subject: |
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YES! I finally solved the problem! 
It was a simple matter of extracting my firmware to the right directory, I was putting it in the wrong directory before. Mods can close this and my other topic now. |
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MrMatini
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| Posted: Mon Oct 30, 2006 9:11 pm Post subject: |
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| May you post your solution here, because I have the same problem and I would like to solve it too. So where did you copy the firmware to? |
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effarga
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rvickers
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 4:26 pm Post subject: |
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Can you expain to a noob how you "I used bcm43xx_fwcutter to extract the firmware, then I copied it to /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. "?
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effarga
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| Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2006 10:17 pm Post subject: |
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Well, I found the bcm43xx_fwcutter program somewhere (sorry, I forget where) and I installed it from source. Then after you install it you can just run:
| Code: | | bcm43xx_fwcutter blahblah.sys |
Where blahblah.sys is the name of your windows drivers. Then it should extract a bunch of files into the directory, copy them all into /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware. Example:
| Code: | | cp bcm43xx_* /usr/lib/hotplug/firmware |
Hope this helps! |
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