Need help to get wireless nic working

[guido dom]

My problem is similar with Feisty (it was with 6.10 also)
hardware and driver present buth no wlan0 in network or wifi radar
inprocomm 2220 wirless card(?) in acer laptop

On 3/21/07, jerry <jerryturba at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>
> I  have read and tried several howtos and tutorials but no success. I
> have tried so many ways to do it that I am not sure now if some of the
> left over detritus of past attempts is preventing the card from working.
>
> I have a spare computer (1 Gz cpu, 380 MB ram, 6 GB hd) that I did a
> clean install (all partitions reformatted)  with Kubuntu 6.06 LTS using
> the x86 alternate cd. NIC is Linksys WMP54G PCI that works in windows
> XP. I have  a router (Linksys WRT54GL) on my main computer (also Kubuntu
> with wired nic). I do not have WEP  nor WAP turned on and am using MAC
> filtering. I am sure the MAC addresses are correct.
>
> The howto that I have found that is closest to my hardware  is posted on
> Dossy's blog (Linksys WMP54GS with broadcom bcm4306 and 2.6 kernel) and
> is what I am currently using.
>
> During the install I got a message " Network Autoconfig failed" and no
> matter which option I tried to configure the nic the install could not
> find the wireless network.
>
> After the install completed and reboot,the green light on the nic does
> not light up.
> I tried to follow the howto. Here is some info:
>
> lspci -v
> 0000:00:08.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
>
> lspci -n
> 0000:00:08.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02
>
> I put ndiswrapper-1.1.tar.gz in my home directory, untared it and ran
> the script ./ndiswrapper, and ./ndiswrapper -m added the module to
> /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
>
> I also copied bcm43xx.cat, BCMWL5.inf, and bcmwl5.sys  into the home dir
> and ran:
> sudo ./ndiswrapper -i BCMWL5.inf
> installing bcmwl5
>
> jerry at backup:~/ndiswrapper-1.1/utils$ ./ndiswrapper -l
> Installed ndis drivers:
> bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present
>
> I ran "modprobe ndiswrapper" and now ndiswrapper is listed in lsmod.
>
> jerry at backup:~$ iwconfig
> lo        no wireless extensions.
>
> eth0      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"linksysJET"  Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
>           Mode:Ad-Hoc  Frequency=2.437 GHz  Cell: Invalid
>           Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
>           RTS thr:off   Fragment thr: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
>
> jerry at backup:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> * Reconfiguring network interfaces...
>                           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
>
> Listening on LPF/eth0/00:18:39:11:96:1e
> Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:18:39:11:96:1e
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> 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/eth0/00:18:39:11:96:1e
> Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:18:39:11:96:1e
> Sending on   Socket/fallback
> receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down
> DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5
> send_packet: Network is down
>
> Reboot and  still no success. System Settings ->Connections does not
> show a wireless connection present. Network Settings shows the nic as
> disabled. If I click on the enable interface button the nic shows
> enabled for a fraction of a second and returns to disabled.
>
> I am at a loss on how to get the nic working and would appreciate any
> advice.
>
> Thanks
> Jerry
>
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Guido (dompie) Dom
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