On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 14:13:40 -0400, Mike - EMAIL IGNORED wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 17:25:16 -0700, Endy wrote:
[...]
I downloaded R102318.EXE from Dell, extracted it with unzip -a ,
and ran:
bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware /root/firmware/bcmwl5.sys 2>&1 | tee cut.log
and
modprobe bcm43xx
I then ran system-config-network. On the GUI, click new, select
Wireless Connection, and click Forward. At this point a number of
diagnostics appear in the widow running system-config-network
(see below). My only choice is "Other Wireless Card". I select it
and click Forward. In the next box, among other things, there
is a drop-down list of devices. BCM4306 is not one of them. The
closest is Broadcom Tigon3, which I doubt is correct.
It seems to me that the system does not know about the device.
On the other hand:
[root@mbrc15 ~]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
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
eth0 no wireless extensions.
[root@mbrc15 ~]# lspsi
...
02:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card (rev 01)
...
[root@mbrc15 ~]# lsmod | grep bcm
bcm43xx 419681 0
ieee80211softmac 35137 1 bcm43xx
ieee80211 35081 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
bcm43xx_mac80211 397985 0
ssb 35013 1 bcm43xx_mac80211
mac80211 145609 2 rc80211_simple,bcm43xx_mac80211
Is there a missed step? Is the driver I downloaded wrong? (It was
on the README list.) If you have read my other threads, you know
I got closer to a functioning interface using ndiswrapper. It
never did work, however.
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Here are the system-config-network diagnostics mentioned above:
(system-config-network-gui:650): libglade-WARNING **: Error loading image:
Failed to open file
'/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/network.xpm': No such file or
directory
(system-config-network-gui:650): libglade-WARNING **: could not convert string
to type `GdkPixbuf' for property `logo'
(system-config-network-gui:650): libglade-WARNING **: Error loading image:
Failed to open file
'/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/network.xpm': No such file or
directory
(system-config-network-gui:650): libglade-WARNING **: could not convert string
to type `GdkPixbuf' for property `logo'
(system-config-network-gui:650): libglade-WARNING **: Error loading image:
Failed to open file
'/usr/share/system-config-network/netconfpkg/gui/network.xpm': No such file or
directory
(system-config-network-gui:650): libglade-WARNING **: could not convert string
to type `GdkPixbuf' for property `logo'
Thanks for your help.
Mike.
