Yesterday evening I (and a number of other people at the Saturday
installfest) wrestled the dread ndiswrapper demons and got broadcom
wireless cards operational ... notice how I said it was operational
*yesterday*. I can't get the bloody thing online now.
How I got online yesterday, after assembling ndiswrapper, and attaching
the windows driver:
- disable (rmmod) the linux native broadcom driver (bcm43xx -- it
didn't work)
- modprobe ndiswrapper
- iwconfig eth2 essid (essid of router at yesterday's IF)
- ifconfig eth2 up (if it wasn't already)
- dhclient eth2
Today:
- disable native driver (tried both rmmod (driver) and putting the
driver name into the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file)
- iwconfig eth2 essid "multi word name" key "key"
- ifconfig eth2 up (if it wasn't already)
- dhclient eth2 (or ifup eth2 - I'd already filled the config data into
/etc/network/interfaces)
Symptoms / issues
- The dhcp request (dhclient) didn't work ... it tries several times,
then shuts down
- When I request a list from 'iwconfig eth2'
- The key is in the interface info list
- The essid is NOT in the list -- and doesn't show up no matter
how many times I enter it, or if I try to enter a different single-word
essid as a test
- The card is working. I can scan local access points with iwlist
eth2, and pull data on the nearest two. One of these is the household
router that's 5 feet away from me on the other side of a wall.
Suggestions, anyone?
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