wlan not present

[Johan Lozano]

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 17:26 +0800, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> Johan Lozano wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:42 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > 
> >>On Sunday 07 August 2005 04:00, Johan Lozano wrote:
> >>
> >>>hi list,
> >>>
> >>>i am trying to install a wireless network on a acer aspire 5020 with a
> >>>broadcom 4318 nic without any success.
> >>>
> >>>ndiswrapper is installed
> >>>ndiswrapper -l reports:
> >>>installed ndis drivers:
> >>>bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
> >>>
> >>>but in the network configuration keep having this message on activating
> >>>wlan0:
> >>>ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying
> >>>initialisation.
> >>
> >>Did you follow the instruction here:
> >>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation 
> >>?
> >>
> >>What's the output of 'iwconfig' ? 
> >>
> >>RDB
> >>
> >>
> > 
> > with the driver in time of posting this, the output of iwconfig was:
> > 
> > [root at mbarwen ~]$ iwconfig
> > 
> > lo        no wireless extensions.
> > 
> > eth0      no wireless extensions.
> > 
> > sit0      no wireless extensions.
> > 
> > i suppose it was because the driver is a win32 driver.
> > in the meantime i found an other driver, one for the x86_64
> > architecture. wlan0 is now detected but now he complains about the fact
> > it is compiled for revision 17 and the card is one of revision 18 and
> > that some options will not work properly. 
> > and really, it does not work at all.
> > 
> > so i sent a mail to acer for help, got a ticket number but still no
> > answer.
> > 
> > thanks anyway
> > 
> > 
> > Johan Lozano
> > MicroBit, Duffel
> > E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be
> > 
> > GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
> > 
> > 
> > 
> 
> Stupid question, but is the driver even loading?
> 
> insmod ndiswrapper
> lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
> 

[root at mbarwen ~]# insmod ndiswrapper
insmod: can't read 'ndiswrapper': No such file or directory

[root at mbarwen ~]# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper           216464  0

> Check logs if not and see why not.
> 
[root at mbarwen ~]# dmesg | grep ndis
ndiswrapper: Unknown parameter `'
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,02/11/2005, 3.100.64.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 169
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:0e:9b:c4:a1:16 using driver
bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4318.5.conf

> Regards,
> Ed.
> 
> P.S. the revision 17/18 thing I get as well but it still works just fine.
> 
> 


root at mbarwen ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless
Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"mbarwen.mbd.com"
          Mode:Auto  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256
dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

sit0      no wireless extensions.

[root at mbarwen ~]# ifconfig -a
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0A:E4:E1:36:D7
          inet addr:192.168.1.33  Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20a:e4ff:fee1:36d7/64 Scope:Link

          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1634 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1800 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:542940 (530.2 KiB)  TX bytes:299621 (292.5 KiB)


          Interrupt:225 Base address:0xc400

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:2547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2547 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:2971196 (2.8 MiB)  TX bytes:2971196 (2.8 MiB)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0E:9B:C4:A1:16
          inet addr:192.168.1.33  Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20e:9bff:fec4:a116/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING 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)
          Memory:c0204000-c0205fff

can you figure out what is wrong with this?
thanks


Johan Lozano
MicroBit, Duffel
E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be

GPG key : 9A9FBFE1