Hello all, I am running Debian 4.0 base install upgraded to stable/testing hybrid, I am running a custom compiled xen 3.1 2.6.18 kernel and my wireless card is a broadcom 4310. Two nights ago I performed a dist-upgrade over my wireless connection, then when I rebooted my wireless was inactive. I was using the ndiswrapper with the bcmwl5.inf windows driver, and using wpa_supplicant to configure the wireless card. When I boot up all my other interfaces exist, but my wlan0 does not appear, if I run an ifup wlan0, I get the following.
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ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
Could not get interface 'wlan0' flags
ioctl[SIOCSIWPMKSA]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWMODE]: No such device
Could not configure driver to use managed mode
ioctl[SIOCGIWRANGE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFINDEX]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODE]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: No such device
WEXT auth param 7 value 0x0 - Failed to disable WPA in the driver.
ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: No such device
WEXT auth param 5 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAUTH]: No such device
WEXT auth param 4 value 0x0 - ioctl[SIOCSIWAP]: No such device
ioctl[SIOCGIFFLAGS]: No such device
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_supplicant daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
run-parts: failed to exec /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables: Exec format error
run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/iptables exited with return code 1
Failed to connect to wpa_supplicant - wpa_ctrl_open: No such file or directory
wpa_supplicant: /sbin/wpa_cli daemon failed to start
run-parts: /etc/network/if-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
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In other words it keeps telling me the device does not exist, however, lspci reveals
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sleeperdied:/home/scheidel21# lspci | grep Broadcom
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 01)
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and checking ndiswrapper provides
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sleeperdied:/home/scheidel21# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
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So it would appear the device does exists and the system underpinnings can see it. I disabled my wpa roaming profiles in my network interfaces file, which you can look at below (this copy does not have the wpa roaming profiles disabled), however, disableing them and attempting to use iwconfig I cannot connect to a wlan0 because it does not exists in interfaces, attempting to bring up wlan0 with wpa disabled doesn't change that, and if I attempt to ifdown wlan0 I often get does n6ot exist, but trying and ifup wlan0 following the ifdown tells me wlan0 is all ready configured.
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# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp
auto dummy0
iface dummy0 inet static
address 192.168.7.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
allow-hotplug wlan0
iface wlan0 inet manual
#pre-up wpa_supplicant -B -d -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
wpa-driver wext
wpa-roam /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
#post-down killall wpa_supplicant
iface home inet dhcp
iface work inet dhcp
iface any inet dhcp
iface default inet dhcp
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ANy ideas what is going on?
Thanks in advance
Alex
