bcm43xx Broadcom 4318 wireless card Help Me

Attacker87 · 01-18-2007, 09:43 PM

I am running SuSE Linux 10.2 x86_64

I am having problem activing the card.

steps i've done:

Quote:

linux-wueh:~ # lsmod | grep bcm43xx
bcm43xx 451328 0
firmware_class 28288 2 pcmcia,bcm43xx
ieee80211softmac 52608 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 50248 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac

linux-wueh:~ # iwconfig eth1
eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid
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

linux-wueh:~ # ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

i get this error message.

Quote:

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory

what can i do to fix this problem.

Hangdog42 · 01-19-2007, 07:00 AM

Welcome to LQ!

You've got a couple of potential issues here. From the iwconfig output, it doesn't look like you've configured your card. Have you done anything to set up the SSID and any needed encryption keys? I'm talking about WEP or WPA keys.

Did you install firmware for the bcm43xx? It wouldn't have been distributed with Suse, so you need to do this yourself. I've got instructions on how to do that on my site if you haven't and need some direction.

Finally, you might want to consider using ndiswrapper. The 4318 doesn't always work well with bcm43xx. Just make sure you get a 64 bit Windows driver if you go this way.