Re: dumb question time

2006-08-19 Thread Stefano Cavallari
2006/8/18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [...] Well, I'm not sure what you mean by tried just using it. my laptop has a nice little blue light that comes on when the wireless is activated and this light never comes on. When I try anything, like activating it, I get an error saying that

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Kevin Crocker (teq)
-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

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread kevin
On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:01 -0400, Kevin Crocker (teq) wrote: 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

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Ivan Matveich
Try this exact sequence of commands: rmmod bcm43xx modprobe bcm43xx ip route flush all ip address flush dev eth1 ip link set dev eth1 up ip address add dev eth1 local 192.168.1.2 peer 192.168.1.1 ip route add default via 192.168.1.1 iwlist eth1 scanning # This is important! It

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Larry Finger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 08:01 -0400, Kevin Crocker (teq) wrote: 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

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Ivan Matveich
ip link set dev eth1 up (bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device) That is clearly a bug in your kernel's bcm43xx driver. The developers here might be interested in your dmesg log, I don't know. You might try the latest driver: git clone

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-18 Thread Michael Buesch
On Friday 18 August 2006 23:41, Ivan Matveich wrote: ip link set dev eth1 up (bcm43xx: Card IRQ register not responding. Giving up. SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such device) That is clearly a bug in your kernel's bcm43xx driver. The developers here might be interested in your dmesg log, I don't

dumb question time

2006-08-17 Thread Kevin Crocker (teq)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: dumb question time

2006-08-17 Thread Larry Finger
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