WLAN device disabled

[Steve Knorr]

Indeed, It also depends on which Broadcom card it came with, if it came 
with the bcm43xx then the restricted drivers/fwcutter should work. If 
it's some other, it may still try to use bcm43xx/fwcutter while the 
chipset is different (mine did this). In which case, NDISwrapper may be 
the best solution.


Howard Coles Jr. wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 February 2008 08:13:59 am Stephan Schöffel wrote:
>   
>> 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
>>>       
>
> Try using the Restricted Drivers utility.  Some Broadcom wireless nics don't 
> support wpa encryption, either way.  However, just because you have 
> the "driver" that may not make it work, you may need to get the firmware, and 
> I forget right now how to do it.  I just know that in gutsy on my Dell 
> Workstation, it downloaded the firmware and loaded that up for me.  
>
> The problem is broadcom's wireless nics.  HP uses them because they are cheap!
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