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
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.
Last edited by hydro123456; July 14th, 2007 at 06:07 PM.
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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- Log of cat /etc/issue Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 Ubuntu 7.04 \n \l Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 ---------------- 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 ---------------- Log of echo Feisty release detected. Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 Feisty release detected. Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 ---------------- 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 ---------------- Log of rmmod bcm43xx Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 ---------------- Log of echo Feisty Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 Feisty Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- Log of tar -xf drivers-32.tar.gz Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 ---------------- 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 ---------------- Log of modprobe ndiswrapper Sat Jul 14 18:18:00 2007 Sat Jul 14 18:18:01 2007 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ---------------- 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 ----------------
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wi...92d255aa190a26 was useful but I'm having difficulty installing ndiswrapper without apt-get.
Last edited by DWRZ; July 15th, 2007 at 12:27 AM.
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' --- :~/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
Last edited by sblanzio; July 15th, 2007 at 05:24 PM.
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
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