Need help. Wireless does not work after kernel upgrade[Scanned]

[Chris Bradford]

Tobias Bocanegra wrote:
> - 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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>
There is no need to use ndiswrapper with the latest kernel.  I use a 
Broadcom 4306 wifi card and native linux drivers.

The broadcom drivers are included all you need is firmware. Check out my 
website for more information, the process is very simple.

http://cb-net.co.uk

Cheers,

-Chris


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