I'm running Debian Sid and have a Linksys WMP54GS.
I've never really understood networking, and definitely not wireless
networking.
I've been trying half a week to get this card working, but the how-to's
I've been finding simply don't explain things sufficiently for me to
find my own way, and their ways inevitably fail for some reason or another.
The best success I've had so far come from following the instructions at
http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/153/213/ but when I get to
the point of installing bcm43xx-fwcutter (do I want this, or do I want
b43-fwcutter? I could never determine from the documentation I've
found), and it reports:
Setting up bcm43xx-fwcutter (1:005-2) ...
--2008-11-15 19:34:22-- http://boredklink.googlepages.com/wl_apsta.o
Resolving boredklink.googlepages.com... 74.125.47.118
Connecting to boredklink.googlepages.com|74.125.47.118|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
2008-11-15 19:34:23 ERROR 404: Not Found.
I found a clue to use "volatile", but didn't know exactly what that
meant, but a google for "debian volatile" led me to add this line to my
sources.list file:
deb http://volatile.debian.org/debian-volatile etch/volatile main
contrib non-free
and then I reinstalled bcm43-fwcutter and this time it looked like it
completed properly.
But the docs seem to indicate that "voila! your wireless now works", but
it doesn't. At least, not as far as I can tell. (The docs also talked
about copying the driver (what driver? which file?) from the Windows
install CD, and to extract it to /lib/firmware or /usr/lib/firmware and
to create these directories, etc etc etc, but I THINK the install of
bcm43-fwcutter took care of all these things for, right?)
Here's a few things that might help in diagnosing where I am and where I
need to go:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IGP2 (rev a2)
00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 1 (rev a2)
00:00.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 4 (rev a2)
00:00.3 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 3 (rev a2)
00:00.4 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 2 (rev a2)
00:00.5 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Memory Controller 5 (rev a2)
00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 ISA Bridge (rev a4)
00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation nForce2 SMBus (MCP) (rev a2)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:02.2 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 USB Controller (rev a4)
00:04.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 Ethernet
Controller (rev a1)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AC97
Audio Controler (MCP) (rev a1)
00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 External PCI Bridge (rev a3)
00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation nForce2 IDE (rev a2)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation nForce2 AGP (rev a2)
01:06.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One
54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
01:08.0 Multimedia video controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Video
Capture (rev 11)
01:08.1 Multimedia controller: Brooktree Corporation Bt878 Audio Capture
(rev 11)
02:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon
9600]
02:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AP [Radeon 9600]
(Secondary)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ sudo ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0c:76:63:23:94
inet addr:192.168.1.102 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20c:76ff:fe63:2394/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:160680 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:137963 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:182022039 (173.5 MiB) TX bytes:18437499 (17.5 MiB)
Interrupt:22 Base address:0xe000
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:327 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17644 (17.2 KiB) TX bytes:17644 (17.2 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:18:f8:29:b5:96
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr
00-18-F8-29-B5-96-65-74-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ sudo iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
wmaster0 no wireless extensions.
wlan0 IEEE 802.11 ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=20 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ cat /etc/network/interfaces
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
# The loopback network interface
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
# The primary network interface
allow-hotplug eth0
#auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp
(I added the last two lines manually, just guessing.)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
Reconfiguring network interfaces...There is already a pid file
/var/run/dhclient.eth0.pid with pid 9823
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:76:63:23:94
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:76:63:23:94
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid with pid 10033
killed old client process, removed PID file
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on Socket/fallback
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on Socket/fallback
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:18:f8:29:b5:96
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
done.
(And my eth0 doesn't come back up. That allow-hotplug eth0 has never
worked for me; I always have to set it to auto or to manually bring my
interface back up with "sudo ifup eth0".)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ sudo ifup eth0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0c:76:63:23:94
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0c:76:63:23:94
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1
DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1
bound to 192.168.1.102 -- renewal in 32638 seconds.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/sux$ uname -a
Linux evoljasen 2.6.26-1-486 #1 Sat Oct 18 15:35:44 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
I have no idea how to proceed. Any suggestions?
Thanks!
--
Kent
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