Wireless Woes

[Joseph]

The problem is that you have the restricted modules installed and the nativeHello Howard & everyone,

  Thanks for the details.  I have a Broadcom (stupid proprietary lame wifi card in my Acer Asspire 1600).  Here are all the details:

/home/admin# lsmod |grep bc
bcm43xx               124044  0
ieee80211softmac       29696  1 bcm43xx
ieee80211              37064  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
usbcore               130692  4 ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
fbcon                  42784  72
tileblit                2816  1 fbcon
font                    8320  1 fbcon
bitblit                 6272  1 fbcon

root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present

root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# dmesg |grep ndiswrapper
[17179607.276000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)

root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E4:56:BF:B8
          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:185 Base address:0x8800

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0B:6B:4A:07:AE
          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:11 Base address:0x8000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:172 (172.0 b)  TX bytes:172 (172.0 b)

admin at o0o:~$ modprobe -c |grep ndiswrapper
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

root at o0o:~# iwlist eth1 scan
eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device


root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# iwconfig eth1 essid tmobile
root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# ifconfig eth1 up
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# sudo dhclient eth1
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
Listening on LPF/eth1/00:0b:6b:4a:07:ae
Sending on   LPF/eth1/00:0b:6b:4a:07:ae
Sending on   Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down

root at o0o:/etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5# cat /etc/network/interfaces
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp

auto eth1
iface eth1 inet dhcp

auto eth2
iface eth2 inet dhcp

auto ath0
iface ath0 inet dhcp

auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Do I need to disable that Broadcom 43xx module?

Thanks in advance! =)

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driver is trying to load.  Do you have a Broadcom or Atheros based card?
That would help us in figuring out how to help further.

BTW:  You can do an lsmod | grep ath or lsmod | grep bc to find out if the
Atheros Madwifi module, or the Broadcom 43xx module is loading.  I had these
symptoms on a Dell D600 with a Broadcom 4300 based wireless NIC.

-- 
See Ya'
Howard Coles Jr.
John 3:16!
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