Age Jan (John) Stap wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to understand Linux and since I was working with DOS and > Pascal since 1982, I thought that I had an advantage.... > Here is what I did: > upgraded with max memory my X22 ThinkPad and installed and uninstalled > all kinds of (k)unbutu, Mint, DSl etc. > My pcmcia linksys card with a broadcom 4306 (rev3) chip worked, did > not work, etc, > I tried fw-cutter with b43 and b43xx, I tried ndiswrapper, and always > the same outcome: sometimes it works sometimes it does not work. > I'm now back to the blue cable on eth0 but in my debian-lenny-beta2 > networkmanager I see my wireless card on wlan0 at only 45% but nothing > happens when I try to activate it. > Reading the forums, it is clear that I'm not the only one but since > I'm very hardheaded (originaly from the netherlands), I want this > thing to operate under the b43 and fw-cutter conditions. If I don't > manage, is there a single pcmcia card that is really Linux-friendly? > > thanks for any help > - > John > > > Age Jan Stap > 1565 Calixa-Lavallee > Trois-Rivieres, Qc. > G8Y3G1 - CANADA > > go visit Helene's site at http://www.helene-vermote.ca > > > > Funny you should mention that. I spent two hours last night trying to get a BCM4306 working under Deb 2.6.24.4 with no success. I've had no problems getting the same card to work under Fedora from 2.6.23 all the way through 2.6.26-rc6.
You didn't mention which kernel you have (uname -a), but as the previous sentence will help confound the issue, there's something about the Debian distro that makes it not work [more on what "not work" below] and I haven't isolated what it is as of yet. 1. The firmware loads. sudo dmesg | grep b43 shows that the chip is detected, the LEDs are connected, etc. 2. The interface shows up. sudo iwconfig shows wlan0 3. The interface turns on. sudo ifconfig wlan0 up no errors NOT WORK: 4. Unable to scan for networks. sudo iwlist wlan0 scan 5. Unable to associate with AP. sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid ehudssid key wepkeygoeshere open shows link quality 0 and no AP I'm currently hunting for more clues. Ehud _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
