Problems with Dell Wireless Card (kinda strange)

[nelsoncaballero]

Hi to all,

Well I'm a Ubuntu newbie... I'm using Linux since a while (Fed*ra and R*d H*t), but first timer in desktop linux.
I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 (installed using Wubi... just wonderfull :KS, don't need to partition my HDD).
Everything seems to be working fine except the Wireless Card, I do some research and i found this...

root@nelcab-laptop:/home/nelcab# lshw -C network
*-network
description: Network controller
product: BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
version: 01
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=0 module=ssb
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:14:22:ec:bf:2c
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 100MB/s
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=b44 driverversion=2.0 duplex=full ip=10.0.0.27 latency=64 link=yes module=ssb multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
*-network DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 2
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:16:ce:0f:b9:83
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

I don't know why it detects on Phy ID 2 another network because it only have a unique Wireless Card (the one on the ID 0).
And so.. when I do a iwconfig it detects this...

root@nelcab-laptop:/home/nelcab# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Channel:0 Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
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

... like the wlan0 is shutdown.


root@nelcab-laptop:/home/nelcab# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:22:ec:bf:2c
inet addr:10.0.0.27 Bcast:10.0.0.31 Mask:255.255.255.224
inet6 addr: fe80::214:22ff:feec:bf2c/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:7074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3283 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:3397385 (3.2 MB) TX bytes:510455 (498.4 KB)
Interrupt:17

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:2038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2038 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:101900 (99.5 KB) TX bytes:101900 (99.5 KB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:ce:0f:b9:83
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)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-16-CE-0F-B9-83-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
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)


and I have here a wlan0 and wmaster0 (which I don't know why).

Can anyone have an idea how to get it work? I was wondering at the Laptop compatibility wiki of Ubuntu and seems that they don't have any issue with it.
Thanks for any help you can provide me.
Best regards,

P.S. BTW, Wireless Card is enable :)

Nelson

[Tim Sharitt]

Did you install the driver firmware? Try:
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter

[nelsoncaballero]

That was it... thank you very much.
Best regards,

Nelson


Did you install the driver firmware? Try:
sudo apt-get install b43-fwcutter