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Hi I used this guide and it didn't work for me. It removes any trace of wireless from my Ubuntu 7.04 and now I'm not sure how to install it again or how to get it to work.
I see a lot of talk about Firmware Cutter and such if this is what I need to do please link me to a tutorial or something. I've been trying to get my wireless working for a while with no luck. Thanks! Laptop DV9010us HP AMD Broadcom 1390 Dell mini PCI rev01 |
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I don't know anything about wireless in linux. But it seems to go away after I reboot from following instructions. {---{{ total wireless noob...will do anything asked to resolve this..then I will print it out so I don't lose them again. PS your sig isn't there. |
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One quick question before I get to deep. Does ndiswrapper and the nvidia driver still have problems with each other? I read that somewhere its probably old. Thank for being patient. (I guess sigs only show if your signed in) |
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OK, here is what I would do. Use modprobe and unload both ndiswrapper and bcm43xx. Then reload ndiswrapper. Check lsmod to make sure that bcm43xx isn't loaded. Then have a look at the output of iwconfig. If you see a wireless device there, you can configure it and hopefully it will work. If you don't see a wireless device, check your log files (/var/log/syslog, /var/log/messages and the output of the dmesg command) and see if ndiswrapper is leaving any clues. |
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Jul 29 08:26:25 nate-laptop kernel: [ 1290.956000] ndiswrapper version 1.38 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) |
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So I'm going to suggest that you compile it from source. As long as you have the source code for your kernel installed, it is drop-dead easy: 1) Download the newest stable source from the ndiswrapper site (avoid any rc versions) 2) Unpack the ndiswrapper tarball. 3) Remove the existing ndiswrapper package you installed 4) Drop into the directory created when you unpacked ndiswrapper and run make 5) As root, run make install 6) If you didn't get any errors for steps 4 and 5, then load the new ndiswrapper module with modprobe and check that it sees the card (ndiswrapper -l) Then check and see if you get a wireless card in iwconfig. |
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Jul 29 10:04:37 nate-laptop kernel: [ 7182.888000] usbcore: deregistering interface driver ndiswrapper Code:
bcmwl5 : driver installed noacpi acpi=off pnpbios=off pci=assign-busses so on and so on..I can't remember how to pull the menu.lst up to tell you exactly what options I have. |
Something is SERIOUSLY screwed up here:
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And please, please, PLEASE tell me this thing isn't a USB wireless card. I'd google for how to pull up your boot options. I'm a LILO user, so I don't really have much experience with GRUB. |
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I will google up some boot options for Grub. I may just try the noacpi setting and see if that fixes anything directly. Thank you for trying to help me fix this issue. |
Forgive me for interrupting...
...but it seems there is more to your problem than meets the eye. These things should be checked...
1) check your kernel version. Is it 2.4.x or 2.6.x? Enter uname-r. If it's not a 2.6 kernel, my experience indicates that ndiswrapper won't work properly when you need it most. It will install, load itself as a module, and so on. However, when it comes to boot time, it's a no dice scenario. 2) If you compiled your kernel, did you include wireless extensions? If you didn't, or if you didn't enable all of them, once again, ndiswrapper loads incorrectly. 3) ndiswrapper initializes the adapter. If your wireless router is set for anything but a COMPLETELY open network, you will also need wpa_supplicant. 4) Once ndiswrapper brings up the adapter, and wpa_supplicant gains access to your wireless router, you also need to set an IP address for the wireless adapter. Might I suggest you take a look at my step-by-step instructions for getting bcm43xx wireless adapters going? While it's specifically written for Slackware, much will cross over to other distributions; such as the idea that you should compile ndiswrapper directly from source code. Don't count on the version that comes on your install disk (if applicable) to be functional. Ndiswrapper is compiled to work with your specific kernel. The only way to insure that happens as it should is to compile ndiswrapper from source. While getting a wireless network operating properly under Linux is no cakewalk like it is under Windoze, it is a very doable kind of thing. I have done it five times already. Once on this machine, and four different times on my other laptop. Now, not only does the wireless network work under Linux, with the addition of my wireless restore script, the wireless network is actually much more stable, and more likely to come back gracefully from a hiccup under Linux than XP. As strange as that statement might seem, it is very true. Sometimes the wireless adapter gets squirrelly under XP. When that happens, the wireless network will sit there, sometimes for fifteen minutes or more trying to re-establish an IP address. Sometimes, when things get really weird, the "repair" button gets pushed, too. Even when that step is taken, sometimes the wireless network remains down. Under Linux, if the wireless adapter gets squirrelly, invoking my script gets the wireless network back up in less than fifteen seconds. Once up, it stays up, especially if I am jamming on internet radio. I agree with Hangdog42; you need to be mellow about the situation. Getting upset at Linux makes it that much harder to fix bugs and tweak the system. The fact that you can get online means you aren't tied to your wireless adapter. If you look it as more of an experiment than a mandatory thing, you might get a little bit ahead of where you are. I hope the situation works out for you. Getting a wireless network functional under Linux can be a real pain in the posterior. However, once you get it working, it works as reliably (or better) under Linux as it does under Windoze XP. Blessed be! Pappy |
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