a1234
May 1st, 2008, 06:46 PM
Well after installation x3 on my MBP 2.4 C2D Penry I got a stable Heron. Getting the Wifi to work is a bear!
Question:
After Installing the bcmwl5 via ndiswrapper can not seem to load the wlan0
a1234@a1234-laptop:~$ sudo -s
[sudo] password for a1234:
root@a1234-laptop:~# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4328) present
root@a1234-laptop:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.
[ OK ]
root@a1234-laptop:~#
I have done the following:
gedit /etc/modules for ndiswrapper
root@a1234-laptop:~# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 193564 0
usbcore 146028 7 ndiswrapper,uvcvideo,hci_usb,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_ hcd
root@a1234-laptop:~#
root@a1234-laptop:~# lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 13
serial: 00:1f:5b:e7:1a:b8
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.20 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.1.179 latency=0 link=yes module=sky2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
root@a1234-laptop:~#
Why is wlan0 not loading ?
Any suggestion ?
Question:
After Installing the bcmwl5 via ndiswrapper can not seem to load the wlan0
a1234@a1234-laptop:~$ sudo -s
[sudo] password for a1234:
root@a1234-laptop:~# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4328) present
root@a1234-laptop:~# /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 134519072
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
Failed to bring up wlan0.
[ OK ]
root@a1234-laptop:~#
I have done the following:
gedit /etc/modules for ndiswrapper
root@a1234-laptop:~# lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper 193564 0
usbcore 146028 7 ndiswrapper,uvcvideo,hci_usb,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_ hcd
root@a1234-laptop:~#
root@a1234-laptop:~# lshw -C network
*-network UNCLAIMED
description: Network controller
product: BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
version: 05
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
configuration: latency=0
*-network
description: Ethernet interface
product: Marvell Yukon 88E8058 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller
vendor: Marvell Technology Group Ltd.
physical id: 0
bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0
logical name: eth0
version: 13
serial: 00:1f:5b:e7:1a:b8
size: 100MB/s
capacity: 1GB/s
width: 64 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: pm vpd msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=sky2 driverversion=1.20 duplex=full firmware=N/A ip=10.0.1.179 latency=0 link=yes module=sky2 multicast=yes port=twisted pair speed=100MB/s
root@a1234-laptop:~#
Why is wlan0 not loading ?
Any suggestion ?