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  2. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    yeah, seems like it's gonna be a lot of fun dealing with this. I keep discovering new things I have to do before installing the drivers.

    I have to install the acer_acpi module, which for the moment is more generating errors than doing anything else.

    after that, another acer specific thing.

    then reinstall drivers, trying different methods.

    To have more fun, it seems that my wifi card bcm4318 is a very popular nervebreaking little toy.

     

    I found very good howto's and forums:

     

    http://anshee.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-...18-work-on.html

    https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/.../bcm43xx/Dapper

     

    the latter has links to all you might need and that might work, only it's for ubuntu, but still it helps me understand.

     

    Yves, I hope you can find some clues there.

    Bonjour la France, it's been a long time.

  4. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    now to finish I tried applying this from Debian wiki:

     

    # Gnome- Double click on Network Connection (If you don't have an icon click on add to panel, then Select "Network Monitor" and click add)

    # Name: Wlan0

    # Click on configure

    # Select Wireless connection

    # Properties

    # Pick a network, add a password, select dhcp and click ok

    # You should be connected.

     

    the problem is "Network Monitor" sends me:

    SIOCGIFFLAGS error: No such device

     

    and I don't think I have anything called Wlan0, also I don't know what it means so...

    I have eth2 in Network manager.

  5. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    Posted · Edited by micho

    I already have build-essential and the right linux-headers. following the Debian wiki I remove any version of ndiswrapper i might have and download the last stable release.

    I unpack the downloaded file in a tmp directory created in home.

    btw, i decided to use ndiswrapper because the version of my kernel is

    2.6.18-6-amd64

     

    next I blacklist generic bcm43xx (just in case?) and compile ndiswrapper.

    maybe problem here:

    micho:~/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53# make distclean
make -C driver clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver'
rm -f *.o *.ko .*.cmd *.mod.c *.symvers modules.order *~ .\#*
rm -f *_exports.h win2lin_stubs.h
rm -rf .tmp_versions
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver'
make -C utils clean
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53/utils'
rm -f *~ *.o loadndisdriver
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53/utils'
rm -f *~
rm -fr ndiswrapper-1.53 ndiswrapper-1.53.tar.gz patch-stamp
make -C driver distclean
make[1]: Entering directory `/root/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver'
make[1]: *** No rule to make target `distclean'.  Stop.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/root/tmp/ndiswrapper-1.53/driver'
make: *** [distclean] Error 2

     

    I don't know what it means this error 2. I keep going:

    I get R151517.EXE unzip it and install the driver from bcmwl5.inf (instead of the usual .sys)

     

    now quick check with ndiswrapper -l, and here's what I get, not sure what to think about the second part:

    bcmwl5 : driver installed
	device (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)

     

    anyone knows what that means?

    now finalize

    then check with iwconfig:

    eth2	  IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:""  Nickname:"Broadcom 4318"
	  Mode:Managed  Access Point: Invalid
	  RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
	  Encryption key: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

  8. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    ok that's it I'm back to my learning trial errors.

    So as I mentioned earlier, I just reinstalled Debian etch.

    everything working except wifi, of course.

    I haven't installed any drivers yet, but I wanted to show you what appears on screen during boot (I extracted this from /var/log/Kern.log)

    these are all the places where bcm43xx is mentionned, I don't know what that tells:

    Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx driver
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: irda_init()
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 23
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:14.6 (0010 -> 0012)
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:14.6[B] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 209
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:02.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8)
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
Sep  9 22:29:28 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off

     

    and later:

    bcm43xx: PHY connected
Sep  9 22:29:36 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
Sep  9 22:29:36 micho kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2)
Sep  9 22:29:38 micho kernel: Bluetooth: Core ver 2.10
Sep  9 22:29:38 micho kernel: NET: Registered protocol family 31
Sep  9 22:29:38 micho kernel: Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
Sep  9 22:29:38 micho kernel: Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
Sep  9 22:29:38 micho kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP ver 2.8
Sep  9 22:29:38 micho kernel: Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
Sep  9 22:29:39 micho kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
Sep  9 22:29:39 micho kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
Sep  9 22:29:39 micho kernel: Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.8
Sep  9 22:29:39 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
Sep  9 22:29:39 micho kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2)
Sep  9 22:29:39 micho kernel: bcm43xx: set security called, .level = 0, .enabled = 0, .encrypt = 0

     

    and later:

    eth1: no IPv6 routers present
Sep  9 22:30:02 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
Sep  9 22:30:02 micho kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2)
Sep  9 22:30:25 micho kernel: tg3: eth1: Link is down.
Sep  9 22:30:26 micho kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
Sep  9 22:30:26 micho kernel: bcm43xx: core_up for active 802.11 core failed (-2)

  9. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    I am using etch. I tried both drivers. If I understood well, the drivers were working, but my wifi card wouldn't connect, although at some point it was able to detect the available networks. there is a little led button to activate the card on my laptop and it doesn't stay on when i use linux. sometimes it blinked a couple times during boot. I wonder if that button thing is a problem, but as it appears to be software controlled i figure there should be a way to make it work.

     

    as i am going to reinstall the drivers, which one do you recommend? last time it was smother to install using ndiswrapper, but might be because of my lack of experience.

  10. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    Thanks Paul for the suggestion. I actually decided to reinstall Debian just to learn and understand better what I had done before. I went again through the process of making my graphic card and my touchpad working. They are working now. I still haven't tried installing the wifi card. I'll get back to it tomorrow or later tonight and give an update here.

     

    thanks,

     

    Micho

     

    ps Paul, your signature is cool

  13. need help with Debian and Wifi

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    Hi,

     

    I'm posting this here because I saw a similar thread but too old and that wasn't addressing exactly the same problem. Anyway, I'm a linux newbie and I've been struggling for a couple days to get Debian to function and properly on a laptop. I got everything I needed to work except for the wireless connection. The driver seems to work, actually everything seems to work except it doesn't connect to the internet, although it "sees" routers (mine and my neighbours). (sorry for the non technically accurate description). Here's what I get:

     

    with Ifconfig:

    eth2	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:9B:D3:DD:0A
	  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:169 Memory:c0304000-c0306000

     

    with iwlist eth2 scan

    Well now I get

    eth2	  No scan results

    but it used to scan and detect 2 networks with all the info. Anyway.

     

    with route

    Kernel IP routing table
Destination	 Gateway		 Genmask		 Flags Metric Ref	Use Iface
192.168.1.0	 *			   255.255.255.0   U	 0	  0		0 eth2
192.168.1.0	 *			   255.255.255.0   U	 0	  0		0 eth1
default		 192.168.1.1	 0.0.0.0		 UG	0	  0		0 eth1
default		 192.168.1.1	 0.0.0.0		 UG	0	  0		0 eth2

     

    the new thing also is I have to do put down eth2 and redo ifup eth1 to get my wired connection to work every time I do networking restart.

     

    note: computer acer ferrari, wifi card : Broadcom Corporation BCM4318

     

    really now I don't where the problem comes from. wonder if I should uninstall and reinstall so I can understand better what I am doing. Any advice would be great.

     

    Micho

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