[solved maybe] Re: wireless giving trouble in Ubuntu recently

[C Hamel]

On Friday 20 October 2006 13:32, Eric Lemoine wrote:
> On 10/19/06, C Hamel <yogich at sc2000.net> wrote:
> > It just hit me.  The tool I used ws 'iwlist scan'.  Duh!!
>
> I don't know if you finally succeeded in making your bcm43xx card work...
>
> I just had to make mine work on Edgy. Here's what I had to do:
>
> - install bcm43xx-fwcutter: sudo apt-get install bcm43xx-fwcutter
> - download firmware: wget http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o
> - extract firmware and copy it to /lib/firmware: bcm43xx-fwcutter -w
> /lib/firmware/ wl_apsta.o
> - unload bcm43xx module if loaded: modprobe -r bcm43xx
> - add appropriate entry in /etc/network/interfaces
> - load bcm43xx module: modprobe bcm43xx
> - bring the interface up: ifup eth1
>
> I haven't configured wep or any crypto yet.
>
> In case that can help anyone...
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Eric
Fact is, I did not.  I have done what you suggested, and still no dice.  I get 
the following output:
Password:
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/eth0/00:90:4b:46:e6:92
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:90:4b:46:e6:92
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12

yogi at flight6:~$ sudo iwlist scan
lo        Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0      Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:14:6C:D5:F1:22
                    ESSID:"NETGEAR"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11bg
                    Mode:Master
                    Channel:6
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rates:54 Mb/s
                    Extra: Rates (Mb/s): 1 2 5.5 9 11 6 12 18 24 36 48 54
                    Quality=100/100  Signal level=-176 dBm
                    Extra: Last beacon: 288ms ago

eth1      Interface doesn't support scanning.

sit0      Interface doesn't support scanning.

yogi at flight6:~$ sudo iwconfig eth0 essid "NETGEAR"
yogi at flight6:~$ sudo dhclient eth0
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/eth0/00:90:4b:46:e6:92
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:90:4b:46:e6:92
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17

{Did CTRL-C, here...}

yogi at flight6:~$ sudo ifconfig
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:46:E6:92
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4428 (4.3 KiB)  TX bytes:1945 (1.8 KiB)
          Interrupt:255 Base address:0xc000

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0D:9D:89:9C:47
          inet addr:192.168.0.10  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x4000

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:3 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:172 (172.0 b)  TX bytes:172 (172.0 b)

yogi at flight6:~$

What the devil...
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