I am sending this message from an Acer 5002 WLMi with Debian through wireless (using a Linksys router). The first difference I see, between your configuration and mine, is that I am using the "bcmwl5" driver (without the "a"). Worth a try.
Attila sjb wrote: >If anyone can solve this riddle, they will win a prize. :) > >The wireless chip is a Broadcom 4318-series, used with bcmwl5a. > >Am attempting to get the above laptop to communicate with the above >router. The router works for *non* wireless, (am connected to it now >via LAN), without trouble. However, >I cannot, despite hours of configuration, tweaking, reading, >double-checking and note-taking, get the above combination to work. > >The wireless chip is working by itself: drivers load, hardware's >present, an inet6 addy is even assigned. However, it cannot get a >DHCPOFFER from the router. There are, from what I can gather, 4 >variables pertaining to this: > >1) The router is *not* ipv6-capable (we're Down Under - inet6 isn't >used here yet). Yes, there are tunnels: 2 of them. I would like only >one, but then ioctl won't let me remove either of them. > >2) The tunnels both read as ip6-over-ip4, which is fine. The one in >use, under ifconfig, always reports errors, though TX, RX, etc. remain >at 0. I'm still trying to find out why this is so. > >3) Attempts to turn wlan0 on at boot result in System Tools -> >Networking and System Tools -> Network Tools almost always crashing. >Again, I have no idea why this is so. >Ndiswrapper loads the appropriate driver at boot, everthing looks great. > >4) I cannot get > iwlist wlan0 scan >to print out a blessed thing. It says: no scan results. Yet iwconfig >wlan0 prints out everything except essid, ap, and an ipv4 address. >These, btw, are unable to be set via iwconfig. > >At this point, I don't know if the chipset has died (the system's only >6 months old, and rarely (and gently) used, or if there's a switch I >don't know about to turn wlan0 on, or what. > >Thanks for any help you can give... > >Steph > > > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
