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Chrissy-Tina
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 Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 9:35 am Post subject: I just can't seem to figure out my wireless! Pleas help! |
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I have used every tutorial I can find. I don't know what else to look at!
I have installed everything I can think of. I configured the best I know how (which I don't know much at all)
I'm probably doing something very obviously wrong....
I don't even know what information to give you.
I have a Broadcom 4306 wireless card...
Iwconfig:
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lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
Encryption key:off
Link Quality=0/100 Signal level=-256 dBm Noise level=-256 dBm
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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I first tried manually- got no where
Then I tried using b43-fwcutter - which I can't see where I went wrong there... everything seemed to work...
Last I tried ndiswrapper, and it might just because I'm frustrated... but I couldn't even figure out how to extract it.
uuhhhh... I feel so lame!
But I need wireless working. |
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muhsinzubeir
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:01 am Post subject: |
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wireless is pain in linux, but your card has support on the kernel..life made a lot easier.Last yr i did get it working on my acer laptop before i moved to dekstop.This howto did work for me
P:S
Just dont forget to load the module, to check if module is loaded
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Chrissy-Tina
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:10 am Post subject: ok, still confused |
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- I did that command
| Quote: | # lsmod | grep bcm
bcm43xx 394656 0
firmware_class 10240 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211softmac 21888 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 26440 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
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What does that mean? That it is there?
- also the site you gave me looked promising... but then it got down to " Kernel Configuration" and I didn't have any idea how to start doing that. |
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muhsinzubeir
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 10:33 am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | What does that mean? That it is there? |
lsmod shows what driver module have been loaded on the system.En that indeed shows that the driver is loaded.
| Quote: | | but then it got down to " Kernel Configuration" and I didn't have any idea how to start doing that. |
You need those setup to make sure that you have correct basic setup.But the wiki ofcoz doesnt tell you how to compile the kernel, that is normal routine for gentoo users.There are official doc tht explains how to compile kernel manual, i will assume that you dont have genkernel.
| Code: | cd /usr/src/linux
make menuconfig |
change settings to those mentioned in the wiki, then
| Code: | | make && make modules_install |
| Code: | | cp <kernel_img> </boot/kernel> |
{same name used as u have it in grub}
Get the handbook on the kernel part better explained then what im tellin on this post
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Chrissy-Tina
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| Posted: Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: arlright |
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| looks promising |
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