Need help. Wireless does not work after kernel upgrade

[Tobias Bocanegra]

- have you tried to reinstall the windows driver?
- what does a plain: 'iwconfig' say?

regards, toby

On 8/1/06, Andrew Robinson <awrobinson-ml at nc.rr.com> wrote:
> I had ndiswrapper and wireless networking working on my eMachines laptop
> running Fedora Core 4 with kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4. This afternoon I
> upgraded to kernel 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4. I upgraded ndiswrapper to
> ndiswrapper-1.18-1.lvn4 and
> kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-1.18-1.lvn4.
>
> lspci shows my wireless network adapter:
> 00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g
> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
>
> I still see the wireless driver with 'ndiswrapper -l':
>
> Installed drivers:
> netbc564                driver installed, hardware present
>
> When I try to bring up the wireless interface, I get
>
> [root at proteus log]# ifup eth1
> SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
> Failed to bring up eth1.
>
> In the messages I list below, I see references to "bcm43xx". Was there a
> native driver developed between kernels 2.6.15 and 2.6.17? Should I be
> making use of that? How do I do so? If not, how do I rescue my ndiswrapper?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Andrew Robinson
>
>
> Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3
> Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5
> Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4,
> vendor 0x4243, enabled
> Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5,
> vendor 0x4243, disabled
> Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2,
> vendor 0x4243, enabled
> Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2,
> vendor 0x4243, disabled
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9,
> vendor 0x4243, enabled
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type
> 2, Revision 2
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f
> (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2)
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off
> Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.18 loaded
> (preempt=no,smp=no)
>
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: set security called
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx:    .active_key = 0
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx:    .level = 1
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx:    .enabled = 1
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx:    .encrypt = 1
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for
> networks first.
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate
> scan. Is device up?
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected
> Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode
> "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed.
>
>
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