thank you sooo much, this worked great for me, I am using feisty and used the ndiswrapper method. this is only my second day of having ubuntu/linux and am absolutely sold now that I have this running, thanks again
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thank you sooo much, this worked great for me, I am using feisty and used the ndiswrapper method. this is only my second day of having ubuntu/linux and am absolutely sold now that I have this running, thanks again
I'm using Edgy. I got this working on my Acer Laptop using ndiswrapper, wpasupplicant, and NetworkManager.
By following these instructions: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...cs%2FDevice%29
The only problem I have right now is getting NetworkManager to auto connect to a hidden SSID network on boot up. I still have to select "Connect to another Network" and enter everything manually.
I'm a Linux/Ubuntu noob, and I'm finding these forums/wikis VERY helpful, Thanks!
Sure no problem!
All the adjustments I had to make from the steps in #8 on HOWTO: Installing the acer_acpi module thread
1st:
wget http://www.archernar.co.uk/acer_acpi...cpi-0.3.tar.gz
tar zxvf acer_acpi-0.3.tar.gz
cd acer_acpi-0.3
make
sudo make install
cd ../..
Adjustments:
Link doesnt work, so now download from http://aceracpi.googlecode.com/files...pi-0.6.tar.bz2 and put it on my home/user/download folder.
tar -jzxvf acer_acpi-0.6.tar.bz2 (need to add j because of it is bz2 and not gz)
cd acer_acpi-0.6
Now the make and make install, this I had a lot of trouble with. It just didn't work. After reading, I found out that for the kernel I have, 2.6, I need to make the .ko file, so I did:
make acer_acpi.ko
The next step was the roughest. The make install SEEMED like it worked because it didn't give me any errors, but really it didn't work because later when I need to run modprobe acer_acpi, it just fails with FATAL: module acer_acpi not found. I did this to fix it:
cp -v acer_acpi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.16-20-generic/kernel/drivers/char/acer-acpi.ko
Note that 2.6.16-20-generic might be different, so you need to type "uname -r" to find out what it is.
Now I can do modprobe... so continuing on... but first replace su with sudo su (I get authorization failed with just typing su)
sudo su
modprobe acer_acpi
chmod 777 /proc/acpi/acer/wireless
echo "enabled: 1">/proc/acpi/acer/wireless
exit
Now for the final steps:
sudo gedit /etc/init.d/acer_acpi_wireless_enable
Paste that script in the thread in this file and save...
Run the rest:
su
chmod 755 /etc/init.d/acer_acpi_wireless_enable
update-rc.d acer_acpi_wireless_enable start 39 S . start 34 0 6 .
exit
Final check:
ls /etc/rcS.d/S39acer-acpi-wireless-enable
ls /etc/rc0.d/S34acer-acpi-wireless-enable
ls /etc/rc6.d/S34acer-acpi-wireless-enable
This desn't work. No matter what it gave No such file or directory. OK, so I manually went into those directories to check for the files, and to my surprise they were there.
Now reboot. On reboot, wireless goes on automatically. Type iwconfig in terminal, and it shows 54.0mbps.
I went through all the steps, but it's still not working for me. The device appears to be installed properly, but when I open the network manager and try to connect it just hangs at 28% and never connects.
I have a gateway mx7515 with the same broadcom chipset described in the guide.
1. I can't stress enough how awesome a thread like this.
2. I'm not getting it to work... I have additional circumstances as well but hopefully nothing that can't be circumvented.
3. Log:
4. What can I do?Code:Log of echo Script version: 0.1.2
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Script version: 0.1.2
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of lspci
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL Memory Controller Hub (rev 04)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82915G/P/GV/GL/PL/910GL PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev d3)
00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FR (ICH6/ICH6R) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) IDE Controller (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1P [Radeon Mobility X600]
0b:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCIxx21/x515 Cardbus Controller
0b:00.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller
0b:00.3 Mass storage controller: Texas Instruments PCIxx21 Integrated FlashMedia Controller
0b:00.4 Generic system peripheral [0805]: Texas Instruments PCI6411/6421/6611/6621/7411/7421/7611/7621 Secure Digital Controller
0b:02.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
0b:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of echo /etc/issue MD5 sum: 3087e29b00a0ad846c075b46e50a0342
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
/etc/issue MD5 sum: 3087e29b00a0ad846c075b46e50a0342
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of cat /etc/issue
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of ps -e
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 init
2 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
4 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
5 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
6 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
7 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
8 ? 00:00:00 events/0
9 ? 00:00:00 events/1
10 ? 00:00:00 khelper
11 ? 00:00:00 kthread
35 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/0
36 ? 00:00:00 kblockd/1
37 ? 00:00:00 kacpid
38 ? 00:00:00 kacpi_notify
128 ? 00:00:00 kseriod
155 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
156 ? 00:00:00 pdflush
157 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
158 ? 00:00:00 aio/0
159 ? 00:00:00 aio/1
786 ? 00:00:00 kirqd
2023 ? 00:00:00 ksuspend_usbd
2024 ? 00:00:00 khubd
2056 ? 00:00:00 ata/0
2057 ? 00:00:00 ata/1
2058 ? 00:00:00 ata_aux
2079 ? 00:00:00 khpsbpkt
2141 ? 00:00:00 knodemgrd_0
2142 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
2143 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
2336 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
2337 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
2399 ? 00:00:00 kjournald
2599 ? 00:00:00 udevd
3567 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
3597 ? 00:00:00 kmmcd
3635 ? 00:00:00 pccardd
3646 ? 00:00:00 tifm/0
4415 tty4 00:00:00 getty
4416 tty5 00:00:00 getty
4418 tty2 00:00:00 getty
4420 tty3 00:00:00 getty
4422 tty1 00:00:00 getty
4423 tty6 00:00:00 getty
4724 ? 00:00:00 acpid
4840 ? 00:00:00 syslogd
4891 ? 00:00:00 dd
4893 ? 00:00:00 klogd
4916 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
4932 ? 00:00:02 hald
4933 ? 00:00:00 hald-runner
4939 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-acpi
4947 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
4956 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
4961 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
4964 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-keyb
4976 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
4979 ? 00:00:00 hald-addon-stor
4992 ? 00:00:00 dhcdbd
5007 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
5027 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
5028 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
5041 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManagerD
5054 ? 00:00:00 system-tools-ba
5055 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5089 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5090 ? 00:00:00 gdm
5093 tty7 00:00:05 Xorg
5157 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
5181 ? 00:00:00 hpiod
5208 ? 00:00:00 python
5323 ? 00:00:00 hcid
5343 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
5365 ? 00:00:00 anacron
5379 ? 00:00:00 atd
5393 ? 00:00:00 cron
5543 ? 00:00:00 dhclient3
5569 ? 00:00:00 avahi-autoipd
5570 ? 00:00:00 avahi-autoipd
5579 ? 00:00:00 dhclient3
5638 ? 00:00:03 x-session-manag
5676 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
5679 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
5680 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
5682 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
5685 ? 00:00:00 gnome-keyring-d
5687 ? 00:00:00 gnome-settings-
5696 ? 00:00:00 sh
5697 ? 00:00:00 esd
5701 ? 00:00:01 metacity
5704 ? 00:00:01 gnome-panel
5711 ? 00:00:04 nautilus
5713 ? 00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma
5715 ? 00:00:00 bonobo-activati
5724 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo
5728 ? 00:00:00 update-notifier
5733 ? 00:00:00 evolution-alarm
5746 ? 00:00:00 nm-applet
5752 ? 00:00:00 gnome-cups-icon
5756 ? 00:00:00 trashapplet
5757 ? 00:00:00 gnome-power-man
5778 ? 00:00:00 mapping-daemon
5783 ? 00:00:00 mixer_applet2
5839 ? 00:00:00 gnome-screensav
5873 ? 00:00:05 firefox-bin
5901 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal
5904 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
5905 pts/0 00:00:00 bash
6285 pts/0 00:00:00 sh
6310 pts/0 00:00:00 logsave
6311 pts/0 00:00:00 ps
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of echo Feisty release detected.
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Feisty release detected.
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of rmmod ndiswrapper
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
ERROR: Module ndiswrapper does not exist in /proc/modules
rmmod died with exit status 1
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of rmmod bcm43xx
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of echo Feisty
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Feisty
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of apt-get --assume-yes install ndiswrapper-common ndiswrapper-utils-1.9
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
E: Couldn't find package ndiswrapper-common
apt-get died with exit status 100
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
ndiswrapper: No such file or directory
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5a
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
ndiswrapper: No such file or directory
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -l
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
ndiswrapper: No such file or directory
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of echo You appear to have an i386 system...installing the i386 drivers...
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
You appear to have an i386 system...installing the i386 drivers...
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of tar -xf drivers-32.tar.gz
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
ndiswrapper: No such file or directory
ndiswrapper died with exit status 1
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
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Log of modprobe ndiswrapper
Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
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Log of iwconfig
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
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Log of ifconfig
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:81:C7:CB
UP 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)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa400
eth0:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:81:C7:CB
inet addr:169.254.10.149 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xa400
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:882 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:882 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:70076 (68.4 KiB) TX bytes:70076 (68.4 KiB)
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
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Log of iwlist scan
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.
eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.
Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007
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https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...92d255aa190a26 was useful but I'm having difficulty installing ndiswrapper without apt-get.
see response in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=500964 (for search purposes)
I can't understand why but i'm still getting the FATAL: saying device not found.
what can i do?
I can only say i had to download the 0.6.1 version
any help would be greatly appreciated
EDIT:
I tried even 0.4 version. No way.
I append some of my code:
I even tried to copy the .ko file and make sure it exists in the correct place but it still doesnt work.Code:
lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation
00:0b.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
---
Desktop/0.6.1$ sudo make
Password:
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/enrico/Desktop/0.6.1 modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic'
CC [M] /home/enrico/Desktop/0.6.1/acer_acpi.o
Building modules, stage 2.
MODPOST 1 modules
CC /home/enrico/Desktop/0.6.1/acer_acpi.mod.o
LD [M] /home/enrico/Desktop/0.6.1/acer_acpi.ko
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-generic'
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:~/Desktop/0.6.1$ sudo make install
mkdir -p /lib/modules//extra
cp -v acer_acpi.ko /lib/modules//extra/
`acer_acpi.ko' -> `/lib/modules//extra/acer_acpi.ko'
depmod -a
enrico@enrico-laptop:~/Desktop/0.6.1$ sudo cp -v acer_acpi.ko /lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/kernel/drivers/char/acer-acpi.ko
`acer_acpi.ko' -> `/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/kernel/drivers/char/acer-acpi.ko'
---
sudo modprobe acer_acpi
FATAL: Error inserting acer_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.20-15-generic/kernel/drivers/char/acer-acpi.ko): No such device
(same result even with sudo su)
dmesg says
[ 282.172000] acer_acpi: Acer Laptop ACPI Extras version 0.6
[ 282.172000] acer_acpi: No or unsupported WMI interface, unable to load.
Please help!
thanks
sblanzio
I tried to use the native driver, butt it does not work !!!!
Any Idea ?
Here are the outputs from several command related to that issue !
ifconfig :
eth0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:17:69:AE:93
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
Octets reçus:0 (0.0 b) Octets transmis:7512 (7.3 KiB)
Interruption:11 Adresse de base:0xc000
eth0:avah Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:17:69:AE:93
inet adr:169.254.7.19 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Masque:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interruption:11 Adresse de base:0xc000
lo Lien encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
Packets reçus:588 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:588 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
Octets reçus:29860 (29.1 KiB) Octets transmis:29860 (29.1 KiB)
iwconfig :
eth0 Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:17:69:AE:93
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Packets reçus:0 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:167 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:1000
Octets reçus:0 (0.0 b) Octets transmis:7512 (7.3 KiB)
Interruption:11 Adresse de base:0xc000
eth0:avah Lien encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:12:17:69:AE:93
inet adr:169.254.7.19 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Masque:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
Interruption:11 Adresse de base:0xc000
lo Lien encap:Boucle locale
inet adr:127.0.0.1 Masque:255.0.0.0
adr inet6: ::1/128 Scope:Hôte
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
Packets reçus:588 erreurs:0 :0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:588 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 lg file transmission:0
Octets reçus:29860 (29.1 KiB) Octets transmis:29860 (29.1 KiB)
lshw -C network
*-network
description: Wireless interface
product: BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: d
bus info: pci@00:0d.0
logical name: eth0
version: 02
serial: 00:12:17:69:ae:93
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.20-15-generic latency=32 multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
resources: iomemory:f1800000-f1801fff irq:11