On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:26 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Johan Lozano wrote: > > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:42 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > > > >>On Sunday 07 August 2005 04:00, Johan Lozano wrote: > >> > >>>hi list, > >>> > >>>i am trying to install a wireless network on a acer aspire 5020 with a > >>>broadcom 4318 nic without any success. > >>> > >>>ndiswrapper is installed > >>>ndiswrapper -l reports: > >>>installed ndis drivers: > >>>bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present > >>> > >>>but in the network configuration keep having this message on activating > >>>wlan0: > >>>ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying > >>>initialisation. > >> > >>Did you follow the instruction here: > >>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation > >>? > >> > >>What's the output of 'iwconfig' ? > >> > >>RDB > >> > >> > > > > with the driver in time of posting this, the output of iwconfig was: > > > > [root@mbarwen ~]$ iwconfig > > > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > > > i suppose it was because the driver is a win32 driver. > > in the meantime i found an other driver, one for the x86_64 > > architecture. wlan0 is now detected but now he complains about the fact > > it is compiled for revision 17 and the card is one of revision 18 and > > that some options will not work properly. > > and really, it does not work at all. > > > > so i sent a mail to acer for help, got a ticket number but still no > > answer. > > > > thanks anyway > > > > > > Johan Lozano > > MicroBit, Duffel > > E-mail : johan.lozano@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > GPG key : 9A9FBFE1 > > > > > > > > Stupid question, but is the driver even loading? > > insmod ndiswrapper > lsmod | grep ndiswrapper > [root@mbarwen ~]# insmod ndiswrapper insmod: can't read 'ndiswrapper': No such file or directory [root@mbarwen ~]# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper ndiswrapper 216464 0 > Check logs if not and see why not. > [root@mbarwen ~]# dmesg | grep ndis ndiswrapper: Unknown parameter `' ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded ndiswrapper: using irq 169 wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:9b:c4:a1:16 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4318.5.conf > Regards, > Ed. > > P.S. the revision 17/18 thing I get as well but it still works just fine. > > root@mbarwen ~]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension, but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features may not be available... wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"mbarwen.mbd.com" Mode:Auto Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm 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@mbarwen ~]# ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E4:E1:36:D7 inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fee1:36d7/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:1634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:542940 (530.2 KiB) TX bytes:299621 (292.5 KiB) Interrupt:225 Base address:0xc400 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:2547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2971196 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:2971196 (2.8 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) wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0E:9B:C4:A1:16 inet addr:192.168.1.33 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::20e:9bff:fec4:a116/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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) Memory:c0204000-c0205fff can you figure out what is wrong with this? thanks Johan Lozano MicroBit, Duffel E-mail : johan.lozano@xxxxxxxxxx GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
