Hi folks,
Thanks to help on here I'm almost there with my WIFI connection.
The session log below shows that the new broadcom WIFI drivers work (in
theory). I now have two questions.
1) How do I make the two insmod's survive over a reboot.
2) How do I get to use the new WIFI interface?
Gary
[root@gary ~]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:F2:38:9A
inet addr:10.1.1.171 Bcast:10.1.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:fef2:389a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:259 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:36 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:20959 (20.4 KiB) TX bytes:6136 (5.9 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x4000
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:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:22 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1788 (1.7 KiB) TX bytes:1788 (1.7 KiB)
[root@gary ~]# cd ~gary
[root@gary gary]# insmod ndiswrapper/hybrid_wl/wl.ko
insmod: error inserting 'ndiswrapper/hybrid_wl/wl.ko': -1 Unknown symbol in
module
[root@gary gary]# modprobe ieee80211_crypt_tkip
[root@gary gary]# insmod ndiswrapper/hybrid_wl/wl.ko
[root@gary gary]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:21:70:F2:38:9A
inet addr:10.1.1.171 Bcast:10.1.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
inet6 addr: fe80::221:70ff:fef2:389a/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:671 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:41 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:49646 (48.4 KiB) TX bytes:6556 (6.4 KiB)
Interrupt:16 Base address:0x4000
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:22:5F:82:03:6C
inet6 addr: fe80::222:5fff:fe82:36c/64 Scope:Link
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:19
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:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2388 (2.3 KiB) TX bytes:2388 (2.3 KiB)
[root@gary gary]#
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