3 issues, please help me

[Derek Broughton]

deguz wrote:

> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
>           Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
>           RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
>           Power Management: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
> Output of iwlist wlan0 scan:
> wlan0     No scan results
> But it's not correct, there are wlan networks here.

Not that it can see :-(  

> dmesg says:
> dmesg |grep ndis
> [   16.680000] ndiswrapper version 1.50 loaded (smp=yes, preempt=no)
> [   16.772000] ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/12/2006,
> 4.100.15.5) loaded
> [   16.780000] ndiswrapper: using IRQ 17
> [   16.988000] usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
> dmesg |grep wlan0
> [   16.984000] wlan0: ethernet device 00:1a:73:9b:84:8c using NDIS
> driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS
> Network Adapter', 14E4:4311.5.conf
> [   16.984000] wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA,
> WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK

That all looks good.

> [   77.568000] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready

That probably implies that nothing has _tried_ to bring the link up, not
that it is not available (at least mine says that right now, while I'm on a
wired connection)

> I think the problem is with the wlan button, it is blue (it works)
> until GRUB loads, but when GRUB loads, it turns off, and i can't turn
> it on. I really need to use wlan, please help me.

No, I don't think so.  Until ndiswrapper loads the driver, the light
shouldn't be blue.  I think your broadcom driver is still there and
interfering.  Do "lsmod | grep bcm".  If it shows bcm43xx, rmmod it,  and
add "blacklist bcm43xx" in a file in /etc/modprobe.d/, then you probably
need to restart ndiswrapper (not sure what the procedure is there, because
mine worked first try).

-- 
derek