WLAN device disabled

[Larry Hartman]

On Wednesday 06 February 2008 05:30:42 am Stephan Schöffel wrote:
> hi there,
>
> i'm running kubuntu 7.10 on a hp nx6325 notebook. unfortunately i can't
> activate my wireless connection.
>
> the network settings show the wireless interface as eth1. i is
> configured via dhcp. but the state is "disabled". if i want to change it
> to enabled, it does for about half a second and then switches to
> disabled again.
>
> if i try "sudo ifconfig eth1 up" via console it replies:
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
> thanks for any hints.
>
> stephan

Can you tell us what type of wireless device it is using...my hunch is that it 
is Broadcomm whatever and may need NDISWRAPPER to set it up properly.

Larry