bcm4306 fc5 help please!!!!!!!!!!!

[Hax-X]

OK im really getting frustrated..... Linux is the cream of the crop
But i absolutely need my BCM4306 wifi up and running.

iv tryed ndiswrapper & linuxant on other distros

heres some info ive gathered from my sys i figured anyone that can give valuble info and insight would understand the way ive recorded the data ive tryed distro after distro and am know on FC5 BordeaxDVD edition and XPpro-sp2 and have had alot of headway with my problem using this FC5.

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I ran this in terminal
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:C2:0D:00
inet addr:192.168.2.51 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fec2:d00/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:3540 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:3949 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1649500 (1.5 MiB) TX bytes:796022 (777.3 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0xc000

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:2313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2313 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:2410918 (2.2 MiB) TX bytes:2410918 (2.2 MiB)
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Notebook model:
HP ze2115us
OS:
XPpro (the devil)
FC5

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-Following info comes from KInfoCenter/PCI-

{Line 1}-05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
{Line 2}-Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company Unknown device 12f8
{Line 3}-Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 3
{Line 4}-Memory at d0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8k]

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-Following info comes from KInfoCenter/Network Interfaces
-Name:
eth0
-IP Addy:
192.168.2.51
-Netmask:
255.255.255.0
-Type:
Broadcast
-State:
Up
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-Name:
lo
-IP Addy:
127.0.0.1
-Netmask:
255.0.0.0
-Type:
Loopback
-State:
Up
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Heres a little space of links to sites ive found that might be usefull for solving this problem

http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net/

[AlexK]

can you post the result from these commands:

ndiswrapper -l
/sbin/iwconfig
/sbin/route

execute them as root. And what problems have you encountered while trying to install ndiswrapper?

the entry for eth0 looks more like your wired ethernet card rather than the wireless one.

[Hax-X]

i inputted the commands into terminal

command:
/sbin/iwconfig
Gave these results:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Command:
/sbin/route
Gave me:
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0

and in case it matters i did this while editing the forum so stats arent different than while connected

is it possible that being on a wired connection might prevent my wifi from doing anything


As a side question for u though i noticed that ur on gentoo i have head that u have to compile the whole damn distro to install it is that true or can i get it in a similar way as mandriva/fc4,5/vector u know a precompiled graphical install on DVD 5 mostly


in advance thanks

[yourname3232]

Could you please post the output of

ndiswrapper -l

and it is a lowercase 'L' as root

[AlexK]

is it possible that being on a wired connection might prevent my wifi from doing anything

What we are trying to do now is just load the drivers for the wireless card, once the drivers are loaded, we'll need to disable the wired card, but that is later. And like yourname3232 and myself, asked, please post back the result from ndiswrapper -l command.

As a side question for u though i noticed that ur on gentoo i have head that u have to compile the whole damn distro to install it is that true or can i get it in a similar way as mandriva/fc4,5/vector u know a precompiled graphical install on DVD 5 mostly

Not necessarily, If you go for a stage 3 install, the base system is already compiled for you. All you really have to do is just setup various options in make.conf, compile your kernel and you are good to go. you don't actually need to compile things by hand as portage already contains the scripts to perform the compilation for you. However if you decide to go for a stage 1 install, then you will have to compile the base system from scratch etc.... but portage will still compile other stuff for you e.g. KDE and any other programs you might need. The 2006.0 install media has what you are looking for, a graphical install with some precompiled packages, but some people report bugs with it though.

[Hax-X]

I ran the command in terminal as root and got:
command not found


"daiben"

as soon as i did this i realized ndis didnt get installed Or most likely not

i had given up on ndis

so this leaves me with the problem of "How do i install the "ndiswrapper_drivers-1.0-noarch-4vl5"
file that i got from sourceforge

"Aragato Gozaimasu"

[Hax-X]

This afternoon i had a freind look at the problem who has had atleast a little expereince with FC4 he said there was something weird about my file structure and to try a complete reinstall so i did leaving my satanic partion alone (winXP) i selected remove previus linux partitions and pre config partitions during the install of FC5

everything is without a hitch except this damn wifi issue

i went to sourceforge and picked up the ndiswrapper file "ndiswrapper_drivers-1.0-noarch-4vl5.tgz"

So i came back here and repeated the steps i already followed under you ever so appreciated guidance.



I ran this in terminal same as before and the differences from the original attempt is bettween ****four asteriks on each side****
[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:C2:0D:00
inet addr:192.168.2.51 Bcast:192.168.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:fec2:d00/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
****RX packets:1445 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:1450 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0****
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
****RX bytes:731666(714.5 KiB) TX bytes:291686 (284.8 KiB)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x2000****

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:2370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2370 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0****
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
****RX bytes:2478298 (2.3 MiB) TX bytes:2478298 (2.3 MiB)****


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The commands that you wanted me to post results from are here!!!!

[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
-bash: ndiswrapper: command not found
[root@localhost ~]#

Im Assuming that this means that ndiswrapper is not installed?????

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[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

[root@localhost ~]#

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[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/route
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.2.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth0
default 192.168.2.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
[root@localhost ~]#

[AlexK]

try /sbin/ndiswrapper -l

As for how to install ndiswrapper from source, follow this tutorial. Post back any errors you encounter and we will take it one step at a time.

[Hax-X]

[root@localhost ~]# /sbin/ndiswrapper -l
-bash: /sbin/ndiswrapper: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]#

by the way i tried linuxant in the mean time and it gave me a bunch of stuff about my kernel stack

i saved the linuxant page incase its relivence when this happened

[AlexK]

follow the tutorial I linked to in my previous post to get ndiswrapper compiled. Alternatively, you could download a precompiled version of ndiswrapper for FC5 from http://rpm.pbone.net . do an advanced search and search for Fc5 rpm's only.