Broadcom wireless troubles

[Vergil83]

Is my interface "eth2"? I tried it that way and didn't get an error. Still not working however.

Mike

yes, that must be your interface. After you do that, try running

dhclient eth2

just in case it is not giving you an ip automatically.

[MikeTbob]

Another thing to keep in mind is, turn off the NIC card before enabling the WIFI card, after all you can't have two IP's can you?

[barronmo]

I have tried the dhclient eth2 but it won't give me an IP address; keeps saying something about "sleeping".

Turning off the wired card sounds like a good idea. How do I do that? I'm sure I do already have an IP address from using that connection recently.

Thanks, Mike

[MikeTbob]

/sbin/ifconfig eth2 down

[barronmo]

No luck yet. I tried the sbin\... and also used network manager to deactivate eth1, which is the network cable card.

Any other troubleshooting ideas. Thanks again for the help.

Mike

[Vergil83]

Evidently it is still considered unstable
http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/?go=devices
So try with ndiswrapper. Although this is for ubuntu, it should be the same (except the ndis versin is 1.9 not 1.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=201902

[barronmo]

ndiswrapper seems pretty daunting to get working. So far several of the commands mentioned in various forums don't seem to work for me. I get lots of "command not found" messages.

I've put a fair amount of time into this and don't seem to be making progress. I certainly like the idea behind Linux but at this point installing Windows on a partition seems like the most prudent thing to do. At least that way I'll know I can get on the Internet, which is the most important issue for me.

Mike