Hi folks, noob here.
I'm running a Dell E1705 dual-boot and having issues with the Broadcom 4328 chipset wireless Dell provides.
Fresh install of Ubuntu 6.06, downloaded the tar of ndiswrapper (1.34) using the windows-side partition, make && make install 'n' all that jazz, seem to get the driver working... well, somewhat alright.
However the Sys-->Networking applet started to throw issues at me. Entered the WEP key, wouldn't connect to the network. So I went into a terminal, rocked the
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sudo iwconfig wlan0 key XXXXXXXXXXXX
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Lo and behold the meter-thingy (forgive me, can't remember the name of the damned thing) lit up, but following that, couldn't pull up Google.
So I looked at the dmesg and found the following (what seems to me to be important, inexperienced as I am at this, is in bold:
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[17179596.592000] ndiswrapper version 1.34 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
[17179596.660000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,06/21/2006, 4.80.28.5) loaded
[17179596.660000] ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:0c:00.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
[17179596.660000] PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:0c:00.0 to 64
[17179596.672000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 177
[17179597.308000] wlan0: ethernet device 00:19:7d:30:fc:87 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4501c05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: '', 14E4:4328.5.conf
[17179597.308000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK
[17179597.308000] usbcore: registered new driver ndiswrapper
[17179597.308000] ndiswrapper (add_wep_key:820): adding encryption key 1 failed (C0010015)
[17179664.156000] ACPI: AC Adapter [AC] (on-line)
[17179664.176000] ACPI: Battery Slot [BAT0] (battery present)
[17179664.236000] ACPI: Lid Switch [LID]
[17179664.236000] ACPI: Power Button (CM) [PBTN]
[17179664.236000] ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SBTN]
[17179664.296000] ibm_acpi: ec object not found
[17179664.324000] pcc_acpi: loading...
[17179664.400000] ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[17179664.404000] ACPI: Video Device [VID] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[17179664.404000] ACPI: Video Device [VID2] (multi-head: yes rom: no post: no)
[17179669.336000] ppdev: user-space parallel port driver
[17179669.636000] apm: BIOS not found.
[17179682.848000] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.8
[17179682.848000] NET: Registered protocol family 31
[17179682.848000] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
[17179682.848000] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
[17179682.868000] Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
[17179682.868000] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
[17179682.872000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
[17179682.872000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
[17179682.872000] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.7
[17179685.844000] NET: Registered protocol family 10
[17179685.844000] lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
[17179685.844000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
[17179685.844000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
[17179685.844000] IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
[17179688.404000] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3
[17179688.480000] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A
[17179718.628000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
[17179729.136000] wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
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Not sure if the bolded above really is the problem or not, and if so, what to do about it from this point. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
PS-
A previous install, same OS and ndiswrapper, worked fine (I had to reinstall because I got too big for my britches and started playing with the kernel despite not having a clue what I was doing. Thankfully it's a new box, so there wasn't anything important lost as a result except my oversized ego) - a bit of tinkering and I got online.
Why I'm running into this issue now is beyond me, but hey - that's why I'm a noob
ndiswrapper and broadcom issues
