WLAN device disabled

[Stephan Schöffel]

i was able to install the proper driver via synaptic. now i can activate 
the device; still i cannot connect to the wireless lan...

Larry Hartman schrieb:
> 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
>
>   


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