Unable to configure dell wireless 1370
Hi, I am having some problems with getting my wireless card to work.
I am using the following card: dell wireless 1370 WLAN Mini-PCI Card on a Dell Inspiron 1300 running Ubuntu Dapper Drake. I transfered the windows drivers (Broadcom chipset) to Linux, installed ndiswrapper and then tried to set up the card. Here is my shell output from the installation process:- sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i /usr/local/wlan_1370/DRIVER/bcmwl5.inf bcmwl5 is already installed. Use -e to remove it root:~# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present root:~# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -m modprobe config already contains alias directive root:~# /sbin/depmod -a root:~# modprobe ndiswrapper root:~# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"default" Nickname:"Broadcom 4318" Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s RTS thrff Fragment thrff Encryption key:BA00-3000-00 Security modepen Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. root:~# dmesg | grep ndiswrapper [17179594.580000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no) root:~# ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:A0:F4:F5 UP 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:217 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:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:372 (372.0 b) TX bytes:372 (372.0 b) root:~# modprobe ndiswrapper root:~# ndiswrapper -m modprobe config already contains alias directive When I try to activate the card and connect I get the following error: SIOCGIFFLAGS error: No such device Any help would be great. Thankyou in advance. Will103 |
Do you have the relevant firmware installed for the version of ndiswrapper that you are using.
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Thanks for the advice. will103 |
You seem to have a functional wireless card on eth1, is that not the one you're trying to use?
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Hi,
Some time ago I was using the ipw2200 linux driver which definately requires firmware and confused the two. Specific firmware is not required for ndiswrapper. I do apologise. I did install ndiswrapper for a friend over the weekend - a broadcom chipset. Your iwconfig confirms that ndiswrapper is working correctly and that your card is alive. Keeping in mind the post from hangdog42, you only need to assign an IP address and a gateway, if required, or do; dhcpcd wlan0 to assign dhcp. You can prevent conflicting kernel modules from loading in your init scripts, or blacklist them. Otherwise, unset them in your kernel config and recompile. Slackware is easy in this respect, but I don't have a lot of experience with Debian. Someone else could help you there. |
Hi thanks for you replies, and sorry for not replying sooner. Unfortunately I have somehow managed to lose the ethernet connection as well now (Eth0). I am not sure what I have done but I am going to have to reconfigure the networking completely.
Thanks, will103 |
For what its worth, I was troubleshooting with a friend yesterday, and when he made some changes, and restarted his X server, his eth0 went down. He said it happens every now and again, and he got it working again right away by doing " ifup eth1 " because he said, it switches back and forth between eth0 and eth1, he does not know why -- but he is in Debian testing, if that makes a difference..
Good luck! |
Hi everyone,
An update - I looked around the forums again (here and at Ubuntu) and found a shell script that one of the Ubuntu crowd had prepared. It basically automates the process of installing and configuring ndiswrapper. This still didn't work for me but the author provided a short troubleshooting section and I tried out his suggestions. In the terminal I entered "dhclient" as root, and I suddenly had a connection. I can't believe how long it has taken me to figure this out. My own fault for not taking the time to research it properly. Thanks for all of your suggestions. Will103 |
Could you get me the information where you got this shell script and troubleshooting information? I could also use this as I am having the same problems getting my Dell wireless 1370 card working.
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