Slackware 13.0 wireless network problem

inverse · 10-13-2010, 07:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by prayag_pjs

Hi,

Sorry for being confused but I think you are on right path;

Can you do this and let us know:

lsmod | grep -i "b43"

you need to have this module loaded

no output of the above command
so i guess it didnt installed properly
tell me where i went wrong???
in which folder it is supposed to be???

inverse · 12-01-2010, 01:32 PM

hello all
I m bak with my old problem with some improvement.
Here I m explaining evrything from starting.
I installed slackware 13.0. Then I installed b43-fwcutter-013.tar.bz2 and broadcom-wl-4.150.10.5.tar.bz2. To check I installed wicd-1.7. But it didn't showed any wifi. So, it didn't went in a rightful way.
Yesterday, I upgraded to slackware 13.1. Then I installed b43-fwcutter-013.tar.bz2 and broadcom-wl-4.178.10.4.tar.bz2. Then I ran these two commands:

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bash-4.1# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg Mode:Managed Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=off
Retry long limit:7 RTS thr

ff Fragment thr

ff
Encryption key

ff
Power Management

ff

bash-4.1# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:23:ae:40:e8:e0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
Interrupt:18

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2440 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2440 (2.3 KiB)

pan1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 3e:5d:f1:fd:8a:26
inet addr:10.236.162.1 Bcast:10.236.162.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::3c5d:f1ff:fefd:8a26/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 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:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:468 (468.0 B)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:25:56:87:fe:d0
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

And now when I open wicd it is not showng any network again.

Any help will be very grateful.