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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Larry Finger wrote: > Kevin Crocker (teq) wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Yes, I have one of these devices in my laptop. >> Yes, I want to get it to work. >> >> 03:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g >> Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02) >> 03:02.0 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02) >> >> ifconfig eth1 >> eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:24:FE:83 >> 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:177 Base address:0xc000 >> >> is there any other info or help I can provide? >> >> so - how do I actually get anything to happen? >> >> I've gone to the bcm43xx.berlios.de site and there really isn't any >> information there that >> explains what to do - but then again, I could easily have missed it. >> >> I know the wireless device works - I used to run WinXP and it worked > > What shows up when you enter an iwconfig command? If eth1 is your wireless > device, then the driver is loaded and you will just need to use the > configuration procedure of your distro, which you neglected to tell us. > > The information you want is not on the bcm43xx site because it is > not the same for Fedora users as it is for those with SuSE, for example. > > When you ask a question like this, always supply the distro that you use > and the kernel version you are running. You can get that from the uname -r > command. > > Larry Hi Larry, Thanks for the info. Sorry about forgetting the distro. Here's the output of iwconfig eth1 iwconfig eth1 Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 20 of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 19. Some things may be broken... eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4306" Mode:Managed Frequency=2.437 GHz Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 and my distro is: FC5 2.6.17-1.2157_FC5smp and 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp mostly I boot into version 2174 Kevin -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFE5awR4wyjvD/+zEURAgW8AJ0VbROMo2SEsJqjkomU7HpGqEDIyQCfQZBq viE4K/nLhPRwsu/gRP3AFPM= =mTEK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
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