yet another broadcom topic......but take a look please

Submitted by Dimitrios on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 11:31

Wireless Network Cards

Distro: simplymepis 6
wlan: beoadcom 4318
goal:make it work
dificulty: UNBELIEVABLE Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil Evil

After the topic about my modem, from wich i recieved no answer..... here is another beautiful one....

First of all lets all agree that the belowmentioned HOW TO is correct...it was posted here by a member... and i believe its correct

"""""""Ok -- simplest way to get this to work

blacklist bcm43xx

then -- as root -- remove the Broadcom driver furnished by Mepis
ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5 (since it doesn't work for you)

now -- copy all your Windows drivers (you'll need .inf, .sys, possibly .cat as well) to a folder in Mepis

navigate to that folder in Mepis
(as root)
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf (or whatever the .inf file is named)
ndiswrapper -l ( -- good response is driver present, hardware present)
ndiswrapper -m (may not be needed but won't hurt)
reboot (may not be needed but won't hurt)
(after reboot)
modprobe ndiswrapper (may not be needed but won't hurt)
mutilities

then set up wlan0 and wi-fi in Mepis utilities -- click "Apply" at each tab -- 2.462 MHz = channel 11 --- 2.437 MHz = channel 6

your wireless is working! -- note-- set up without encryption first if having problems, then add encryption later

if mutilities still doesn't work to set up your wireless -- set up with iwconfig

iwconfig
iwconfig wlan0 essid YOURESSID channel YOURCHANNEL#
dhclient wlan0""""""""""""""""""""

Ok these were thw instructions ...........
now i give the console log of what i did, after i mention that i copy/pasted the driver files form the windows directory /programfiles/broadcom/drivers to /home/wlandrivers (from which i sterted the whole process) and then after i failed i copy/pasted them to /root/wlandrivers (form which i tried again). It shoyld be mentioned that i get this message at boot...loadndisdriver failed (error 361) couldnt load bcmwl5 driver or something like that.

SOOOOOO here it goes..............

(are these lines above normal?Huh?Huh?) Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh? Huh?

root@2[wlandrivers]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
airplus driver present
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
lsbcmnds driver present
lstinds driver present
mrv8k51 driver present
netr33x driver present
prismnic driver present
wlanuig driver present
wlipnds driver present
root@2[wlandrivers]# ndiswrapper -m
modprobe config already contains alias directive

......REBOOT.......

Password:
root@2[Dimitrios]# cd /root/wlandrivers
root@2[wlandrivers]# modprobe ndiswrapper
root@2[wlandrivers]# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
airplus driver present
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
lsbcmnds driver present
lstinds driver present
mrv8k51 driver present
netr33x driver present
prismnic driver present
wlanuig driver present
wlipnds driver present
root@2[wlandrivers]# mutilities
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:f6:b1:2b
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:f6:b1:2b
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE on eth0 to 192.168.1.1 port 67
send_packet: Network is unreachable
send_packet: please consult README file regarding broadcast address.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:f6:b1:2b
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:0f:b0:f6:b1:2b
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
root@2[wlandrivers]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

root@2[wlandrivers]# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.3
Copyright 2004-2005 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

SIOCSIFADDR: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device
Bind socket to interface: No such device
root@2[wlandrivers]#

also this is the result of dmesg

[17179591.292000] ndiswrapper version 1.8 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
[17179591.520000] ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:155): Windows driver is not 32-bit;
bad magic: 020B
[17179591.520000] ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:21: couldn't prepare driver 'bcm
wl5'
[17179591.520000] ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:112): loadndiswrapper failed (65
280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'

I CANNOT BELIEVE THIS REPLY : I DO NOT HAVE 64bit WINDOWS.........

......Which means crap.... Lips Sealed Lips Sealed Lips Sealed Lips Sealed nothing works....nothing....after my modem now the wlan... i dont know what i did wrong...... or do wrong....but since mepis 6.0 i keep on getting probs.....and with the modem its ok.... its normal more or less because its a winmodem....(although its strange since its fully recognised and answers to querry) BUT I CANNOT ACCEPT no wlan....
This post is perhaps my last chance...i tried everything please help....

please help me

Dimitrios

Problem Solved

Submitted by Dimitrios on Wed, 09/13/2006 - 15:49.

Guys indeed it had to do with drivers...
as i said i have 32bit windows and i downloaded and still use the winxp driver
however the problem is at HP, which gives you a driver with 64bit characteristics that ndiswrapper cannot work with. I repeat i use on a 32bit windows system a 64bit driver that came with the cd of my laptop and its the same with the one i download form HP support !!!!!!! and it works !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
when i downloaded the correct files form http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...index.php/List everything worked

here http://www.insomnia.gr/vb3/showthread.php?t=157971 you can find the HOWTO i wrote but unfortunately its only in greek, however someone can understand the console commands (they start with #). When i find time i will try to post it here in English.

Thanks again for the help Cheesy

I have the same problem...

Submitted by kumar on Mon, 10/09/2006 - 20:45.

Which driver did you install?

The first link above does not work. I followed the link from your howto, but there is a lot of listings there. I have tried several of them with no luck.

Thanks,
kumar

Drivers

Submitted by mdmarmer on Mon, 10/09/2006 - 21:21.

First link should read

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List#B

Mike

That's the same link from

Submitted by kumar on Mon, 10/09/2006 - 22:10.

That's the same link from Dimitrios's howto, but there are quite a few entries there and none match my hardware completely. I've tried downloading and installing several (after uninstalling the previous) and none so far work. The get me "driver installed" only.

kumar

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