Wifi Woes - you know the drill

05-10-2007

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xcurtisx

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Wifi Woes - you know the drill

I got FC6 on my Acer Laptop
trying to get my Broadcom wifi onboard to go
no such luck.
here is what i got so far:

Code:

[root@bread ~]# iwconfig
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth1      IEEE 802.11b/g  ESSID:"WAP"  Nickname:"bread"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency=2.417 GHz  Access Point: Invalid
          RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:82D3-BLAH-B4   Security mode:open
          Link Quality=0/100  Signal level=-256 dBm  Noise level=-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

eth0      no wireless extensions.

What else do I need to do to get this to work
when i boot it tells me its waiting for IP... FAILED

05-10-2007	#2 (permalink)
budman7 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Knee deep in Grand Rapids, Michigan Posts: 3,242	Is the driver installed for your model? Are you using the bcm43xx module or ndiswrapper? Do "lspci" to find out what the exact model is. __________________ Go RedWings How to know if you are a geek. when you respond to "get a life!" with "what's the URL?" - Birger New users read The FAQ

05-10-2007	#3 (permalink)
xcurtisx Just Joined! Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 33	output: 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN .... iinitally loaded the driver with ndis wrappers when i realized it didnt work _________________ [root@bread ~]# ndiswrapper -l bcmwl5 : driver installed device (14E4:4320) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx) _________________ Thanks for your help...

05-11-2007	#4 (permalink)
budman7 Linux Guru Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Knee deep in Grand Rapids, Michigan Posts: 3,242	That chipset can use the bcm43xx driver. That is the model that I use on my laptop, but I was unable to get it working in FC7 test 4. I have not had to use ndiswrapper yet, but I did find this. __________________ Go RedWings How to know if you are a geek. when you respond to "get a life!" with "what's the URL?" - Birger New users read The FAQ

05-11-2007	#5 (permalink)
xcurtisx Just Joined! Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 33	thats bad news - this could be an ender - so close.... maybe ill try my other laptop When will the wifi community get onboard?

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