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Wireless in fedora core 5 with ndiswrapper

Im new to linux, bear with me...

I am using Fedora Core 5 kernel 2.6.17-1.2139_FC5. I am having trouble with my Broadcomm BCM94318MPG. I have had this configured once before using ndiswrapper and directions from this article: /linux/answers/Networking/Ndiswrapper_in_Fedora_Core_5 This time around that doesn't work, I follow the steps one by one everything goes smooth until I hit the

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ifconfig wlan0 up

it says

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wlan0: unknown interface: No such device

So I go to system >> administration >> network I look at hardware and listed is my realtek lan eth0, broadcomm wifi dev15912, ndiswrapper wifi wlan0, I have read alot of articles and questions on this setup (wireless and FC5) but none I can find that help me. Also when i try to activate the broadcomm it says

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determining ip information... failed; no link present check cable...

and for the ndiswrapper it says this

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ndiswrapper

ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

I have no idea what I need to do. when i remove ndiswrapper drivers and uninstall ndiswrapper the broadcomm stays there. i delete it from the hardware list and it will reappear after i close the window...yes i saved the configuration. I am so lost. I have an interview and need to get my laptop up and running with wifi again so if anyone has an idea let me know. thnx

-logic-phyber

Open a terminal, post output of:

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/sbin/ifconfig -a

/sbin/iwconfig -a

/sbin/lsmod

Note, you can redirect output to a file:

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/sbin/lsmod > lsmod.txt

/sbin/ifconfig -a

Code:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E4:E5:68:46  

          inet addr:192.168.1.100  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0

          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fee5:6846/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:3275 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:3578 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:1938670 (1.8 MiB)  TX bytes:652548 (637.2 KiB)

          Interrupt:225 



eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:14:A4:2F:6F:62  

          BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000 



lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  

          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0

          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1

          RX packets:2457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:2457 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:2426904 (2.3 MiB)  TX bytes:2426904 (2.3 MiB)



sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4  

          NOARP  MTU:1480  Metric:1

          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 

          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

/sbin/iwconfig -a

Code:

-a no such device

/sbin/lsmod

Code:

Module                  Size  Used by

i915                  18369  1 

drm                    70229  2 i915

autofs4                21701  1 

hidp                  16833  2 

rfcomm                37333  0 

l2cap                  23873  10 hidp,rfcomm

bluetooth              47909  5 hidp,rfcomm,l2cap

sunrpc                157309  1 

ndiswrapper          169552  0 

acpi_cpufreq            7497  0 

dm_mirror              22929  0 

dm_multipath          20553  0 

dm_mod                59737  2 dm_mirror,dm_multipath

video                  16708  0 

button                  6993  0 

battery                10053  0 

ac                      5189  0 

ipv6                  242785  12 

lp                    12937  0 

parport_pc            27237  0 

parport                37129  2 lp,parport_pc

snd_intel8x0m          17229  1 

bcm43xx              422081  0 

ieee80211softmac      31553  1 bcm43xx

joydev                  9985  0 

ieee80211              31625  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac

snd_intel8x0          32221  2 

snd_ac97_codec        92257  2 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0

snd_ac97_bus            2625  1 snd_ac97_codec

snd_seq_dummy          4165  0 

snd_seq_oss            32705  0 

snd_seq_midi_event      7745  1 snd_seq_oss

8139too                27073  0 

snd_seq                53553  5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event

ieee80211_crypt        6849  1 ieee80211

snd_seq_device          9037  3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq

8139cp                22977  0 

mii                    5697  2 8139too,8139cp

snd_pcm_oss            40017  0 

snd_mixer_oss          17729  3 snd_pcm_oss

snd_pcm                83781  4 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss

snd_timer              24517  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm

snd                    55237  12 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer

soundcore              10017  3 snd

snd_page_alloc        10569  3 snd_intel8x0m,snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm

ehci_hcd              32461  0 

i2c_i801                8781  0 

i2c_core              22209  1 i2c_i801

uhci_hcd              23885  0 

hw_random              6361  0 

ext3                  129097  1 

jbd                    57813  1 ext3