I can't enable Wireless connection in my Acer Ferrari 4000
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I can't enable Wireless connection in my Acer Ferrari 4000
I hope I can explain it well, I'm not so good with english, and worse with something I hardly understand.
My laptop, as is common in Acer ones, has a button for enabling Wireless connection and one similar for bluetooth. These buttons have a... ummm... "light" that is on when the device is enabled. When I start Windows XP, for example, Wireless is enabled as it starts.
But in Linux, it doesn't start when the OS does, so it's not configured and I need to use a cable. And also, when I start session, if I try to turn on the device, it doesn't work. I thought maybe it was like in multimedia keyboards, that sometimes the special keys don't work in Linux, but the Bluetooth does work if I turn it on.
So, my question is, if it's properly said, how can I turn on the wireless device button?
Hope you understand my bad written and worse spoken english.
I couldn't use those commands you said, I'm using Fedora Core 6. And I don't know where to download the driver. It's a Broadcom 802.11g Wireless Network Adapter (it's everything I know, I don't have the model or something else), and there's nothing in Acer website.
I've never worked with a wireless connection before, that's why I don't know anything.
You can't open a command prompt and run lspci on your machine? That seems a little odd.
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Originally Posted by isra_mv
I couldn't use those commands you said, I'm using Fedora Core 6. And I don't know where to download the driver. It's a Broadcom 802.11g Wireless Network Adapter (it's everything I know, I don't have the model or something else), and there's nothing in Acer website.
I've never worked with a wireless connection before, that's why I don't know anything.
I found it, thanks.
But it is a zip file, and has files for Windows, I don't know if it's the right file. However, I don't know how to install a driver in Linux, could you help me?
NDIS-Wrapper makes it possible to use a Windows driver in Linux.
It does so by creating the Windows NDIS interface (NDIS = Network
Driver Interface Specification). Read the instructions of Ndiswrapper;
it is very easy indeed.
Basically NDISWrapper will want to know where the .sys and .inf files from that ZIP file are. You should be able to just "upload" those and have your wireless work.
Oh, perfect. I have to compile the program. Well, guess what? that's right, I don't know how to compile a program in Linux. In almost three years trying to use Linux, my biggest horror are the words "MAKE INSTALL". For me it's like the blue screen of the death in Windows.
OK, seriously. First, in the INSTALL file it says:
"Make sure there is a link to the kernel source from
the modules directory. The command
ls /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build
should have at least 'include' directory and '.config' file."
Excuse me, but I don't understand it, and I don't what to do. That "build" in that path appears with ls flashing in red color, and it says it's not a file or directory. I don't know what is it.
I skipped that and tried the blessed "make" and I got this error:
" Can't find kernel build files in /lib/modules/2.6.20-1.2944.fc6/build;
give the path to kernel build directory with
KBUILD=<path> argument to make
make[1]: *** [prereq_check] Error 1 "
The version of the kernel is right, but I don't either know what to do here.
I'm sorry for all your time spend here, and I really appreciate your help.
I tried both links. In the first one, I finished it without error. When I use system-config-network, there is already an eth1 device, however, I create the new, but when I try to activate the connections (whichever), the wi-fi light turns on for a moment and then turns off and I get a message that there is no connection.
With both guides, when I boot Linux, it does the same when is loading the modules.
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