mystified Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Before I was using ndiswrapper and a windows driver and it stopped working but with the help of Greg2 he showed me that a native driver was built into the kernel. So I did modprobe bmc43xx, configured my network through mcc, went to wireless, it scanned and found my network. Now I had to reboot and I lost my connection again. I went through all of the above mentioned steps and still no wireless. Suggestions? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 ndiswrapper. :P I could never get the Linux driver to work properly. Sorry. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 27, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Yes but it did the same thing using ndiswrapper and the windows driver. That's what brought up the discussion where I found out about the linux native driver. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg2 Posted March 27, 2007 Report Share Posted March 27, 2007 Now I had to reboot and I lost my connection again. I went through all of the above mentioned steps and still no wireless. Is this the first time you have booted since it was working with the native module? Have you tried going to MCC > Hardware > Look at and configure hardware, and setting it up there? Then go to Network and Internet > Wireless connection, and set that up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Make sure you add the wireless module name to /etc/modprobe.preload and make sure there is an alias in the /etc/modprobe.conf something like: alias wlan0 bcmxxxxxx or whatever the driver is called at the end of the alias line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Is this the first time you have booted since it was working with the native module? Have you tried going to MCC > Hardware > Look at and configure hardware, and setting it up there? Then go to Network and Internet > Wireless connection, and set that up. No, it's not the first. Yes I went into MCC and tried. I looked at my hardware set up for the card and it shows that it's using module bcm43xx. Odd thing is that when I just go to wireless configure and connect buttons are greyed out. Make sure you add the wireless module name to /etc/modprobe.preload and make sure there is an alias in the /etc/modprobe.conf something like: alias wlan0 bcmxxxxxx or whatever the driver is called at the end of the alias line. It's set up in modprobe.conf and I added it to modprobe.preload and rebooted and no luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 Have you made sure that ndiswrapper isn't still loading? The output of lsmod should tell us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 no ndiswrapper Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 28, 2007 Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 no ndiswrapperI was kind of hoping you'd post the output of lsmod, has it might have other clues also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 28, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 28, 2007 [root@localhost mystified]# lsmod Module Size Used by ppdev 8356 0 parport_pc 32260 0 lp 10728 0 parport 33512 3 ppdev,parport_pc,lp ipv6 237120 16 arc4 2656 1 ieee80211_crypt_wep 4928 1 bcm43xx 434592 0 snd_seq_dummy 3620 0 snd_seq_oss 31392 0 ieee80211softmac 27360 1 bcm43xx ieee80211 30408 2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac snd_seq_midi_event 7072 1 snd_seq_oss ieee80211_crypt 5504 2 ieee80211_crypt_wep,ieee80211 snd_seq 49488 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7212 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq sis900 21120 0 mii 5664 1 sis900 snd_pcm_oss 40384 0 snd_mixer_oss 16096 1 snd_pcm_oss af_packet 17960 0 snd_intel8x0 29372 2 snd_ac97_codec 96868 1 snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_bus 2848 1 snd_ac97_codec snd_pcm 70116 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec snd_timer 19620 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 8712 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm snd 46500 13 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_intel8x0,snd_ac 97_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8096 1 snd video 13924 0 thermal 11240 0 processor 21448 1 thermal fan 4036 0 container 3968 0 button 5808 0 battery 8260 0 ac 4292 0 ide_cd 35776 0 binfmt_misc 9800 1 loop 15400 0 nls_utf8 2624 1 nls_cp437 6464 1 vfat 11104 1 fat 46876 1 vfat dm_mod 49944 0 pcmcia 31948 0 yenta_socket 24268 1 rsrc_nonstatic 11808 1 yenta_socket pcmcia_core 34644 3 pcmcia,yenta_socket,rsrc_nonstatic sis_agp 7012 0 amd64_agp 10948 1 agpgart 27240 2 sis_agp,amd64_agp nvram 8104 0 usblp 12352 0 ehci_hcd 29160 0 ohci_hcd 19012 0 usbcore 113472 4 usblp,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd joydev 8928 0 evdev 8864 2 tsdev 7040 0 reiserfs 254148 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 i hate mandriva's list of modules...so many f'in things.... looks like the bcm module is loading - do you use WEP encryption? are other wireless systems still connecting to the network fine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Yes I use WEP but I don't have any other wireless computers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Yes I use WEP but I don't have any other wireless computers.Do you have windows on this one? The reason I ask is that it's possible your wireless is being flaky. Mine does this sometimes, and I have to reboot the router to get it working. Everywhere I've read on the web has said that this driver should work flawlessly with Mandriva. I'm not sure why you're having problems. Oh, as a side note (I'm sure I've said this before): WEP is completely useless. Cracking it is extremely easy: so easy you might as well have no security at all :P (In fact, I would suggest turning off WEP, and trying to connect again - it may be causing it's own set of issues). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted March 29, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 Yes I have windows and in xp it's flaky too but easy to fix. But I had a similar issue in Mandriva 2005LE on another computer. Everytime I rebooted I lost wireless and had to set it up again. This also happened in 2006 but like in 2007 once it stopped I couldn't get it working again unless I reinstalled. I'll try removing wep :P What do you suggestion WPA? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted March 29, 2007 Report Share Posted March 29, 2007 WPA, or if possible WPA2 (not supported by all cards, thought). But for now, let's see if we can get it connected without any security. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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