On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 08:57 -0500, Joe Brandt wrote:
> On Friday 11 November 2005 11:49 pm, Keith Lelacheur wrote:
> > Good evening sluggers,
> >
> > I finally got around to installing ubuntu on my new laptop (Presario r4000,
> > Athlon 64, Ati radion 200m, yada, yada, yada). After a little tweaking got
> > the video working and everything else works great with one exception, the
> > wireless card. It is a broadcom based 802.11b/g chipset. I followed the
> > setup instructions I found at this wiki:
> >
> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowToSetUpNdiswrapper
> >
> > and everthing seems to be workingbut I can never pull a dhcp address. Here
> > is the output of the ifup wlan0 command:
> > Keith
>
> I have the same problem. It is not only in Ubuntu but also Suse 10.0.
> Something got broken as i worked in Suse 9.3 and 10.0 beta as well as Ubuntu
> 5.04. I am getting frustrated with it. If you are willing to pay for a
> driver, Linuxant's driver loader does work. That tells me that it is not a
> hardware or driver issue but a ndiswrapper issue.
>
> Please keep me informed.
>
> Joe Brandt
Are you guys using dhcpcd or is it something else?
I set up my dad's r4000 with SuSE 10 64 bit, ndiswrapper and the
broadcom chipset and it works like a charm. However, you have to have
the 64 bit version of the hardware driver to get it to work with the 64
bit OS.
it can be found here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=186
If you're running 32 bit with the AMD 64, that's another story
completely. When I was originally playing with the SuSE 9.3 32 bit
install (2.6.11 kernel?) I believe that I actually had to disable power
management to get the broadcom stuff going. You could try adding these
to the grub options line temporarily to see if it helps.
acpi=off noapm noapic
I think this got fixed and those weren't needed after the 2.6.11 kernel.
Also make sure you haven't pushed that little wifi button as it
interacts with the hardware regardless of linux and even though you have
loaded the module and run iwconfig, it still has the ability to turn the
actual radio off.
Also try these as the iw settings. I suggested these to Doug Koobs back
in April rather than specifying the essid and such and they helped.
--snip--
Mike Branda said:
>
> iwconfig wlan0 essid any
> iwconfig wlan0 ap any
> dhcpcd -d wlan0
Mike,
This worked, although I used dhclient instead of dhcpd... I've never
tried the "any"
options before, but they did the trick!
I've also installed netapplet, gonna check it out.
Thanks!
Doug
--/snip--
Hope all this helps!!
Mike Branda Jr.
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