my wireless card broadcom

tnkb4uact · 02-12-2008, 10:13 AM

Hi 4 Every1
i'm a new here ..
i'm using OpenSuSE 10.3 and Debian 4.0 ETCH....
actually the wirless card eth1 can be displayed in ifconfig.
but when i set the network configuration which is :my ip ,gateway and the netmask , but when it finished i can't do any connection.....
so what's the problem?

serafean · 02-13-2008, 05:28 AM

Have you configured the wireless part of your connection?? (the command is iwconfig) Have you done ifconfig eth1 up ??

tnkb4uact · 02-13-2008, 06:57 AM

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Originally Posted by serafean

Have you configured the wireless part of your connection?? (the command is iwconfig) Have you done ifconfig eth1 up ??

first of all thanks for ur concerns ...
but i tried that command ... but the problem still running ..
but i will try hard on it till i fix it ...then i will tell u
...

serafean · 02-13-2008, 11:32 AM

Ok; sorry if you felt I was underestimating you...

I'd suggest checking

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#dmesg

for anything relevant to your card's driver. Also try #iwlist scan, if your network is even detected.
The best would be if you fed us some info about your card (preferably the chip it uses), and about your network (if you are connected, post the output of iwconfig here).

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i will try hard on it till i fix it ...then i will tell u

Very good philosophy, you got the idea of linux learning curve...

Serafean

tnkb4uact · 03-06-2008, 08:45 AM

Actually i got it .... but with some bugs on it ^_^
By using ndiswrapper ...it's a free software driver wrapper ( for more info check wikipedia)
So i install the tar file and extract it ...and then i toke my windows driver file bcmxxx.inf just like this:
ndiswrapper -i xxxx.inf
ndiswrapper -ma
modprobe ndiswrapper

After those steps ...the LED of wifi had been flashed ...but when i try to connect to internet it failed ...so i'm wondering .. why -_-

tnrooster · 03-06-2008, 12:49 PM

What does

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ndiswrapper -l

show? Check for alternate driver:ssb, b43, bcm43xx. Modprobe -r them. Unless its bcm43 you may have to rmmod those everytime after reboot as b43/ssb comes up before blacklist matters.