On Sunday 12 November 2006 1:09 am, David Gasa Castell wrote: > Hello, > > After many days trying to run Broadcom wifi unfructouslessly, I write > you again... > > Doing # iwconfig, i obtain: > > lo no wireless extensions. > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > eth1 no wireless extensions. > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"Broadcom 4318" > Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid > 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 > > sit0 no wireless extensions. > > And when, I do # iwlist wlan0 scanning, I obtain: > > wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device > > Why ?? > > Previously that, I made bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware BCMWL564.SYS > and I rebooted the laptop. I tried to do this in two kernels 2.6.18. > The results on booting are the same as my first message in this queue: > > bcm43xx driver > bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4318, rev 0x2 > bcm43xx: Number of cores: 4 > bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0xd, vendor 0x4243, enabled > bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, disabled > bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x804, rev 0xc, vendor 0x4243, enabled > bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x80d, rev 0x7, vendor 0x4243, enabled > bcm43xx: PHY connected > bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 3, Type 2, Revision 7 > bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 8205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 8) > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > bcm43xx: Radio turned off > > Any ideas ?? The native kernel drivers for bcm43xx doesnt work properly. Its far better to use ndiswrapper.
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