In a deep hole with Broadcom 4318 on AMD 64 X2 (mepis 6.5)
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I have been struggling to get wireless connectivity with my Belkin FD5070 wirelees that uses the broadcom 4318 driver.
My system is an AMD 64 X2.
After figuring out the only way to install the DVD was with the 'nonet' option, I have been unsuccessfully trying to get connected.
After making sure that ndiswrapper was not doing anything (just want to use native driver as per 6.0) turned ndis off
any attempt to restart the network in mepis utility had no effect, and any attempt to use the command line, say iwconfig eth2 essid...etc, caused the system to completely lock up.
On some forum, someone suggested trying the automatic network manager. i tried this and now the system will not boot at all: it has a fatal error.FATAL ERROR: BCM43xx_IRQ_XMIT_ERROR 
(see post under Mepis install) Other than reinstalling from DVD I do not know what to do.
In a deep hole,
G
maybe I should jsut get a wireless card without a Broadcom chipset. Any suggestiona as to what is likely to work easily? DLink??
Got DLink WDA-2320 with Atheros chipset,all is fine
Posts: 8
Thanks for the info Mike, but blacklisting bcm43xx shuts the Belkin FD7050 wireless down altogether. I just got a Dlink WDA-2320 adapter and all is fine, beautiful and easy. Trouble on the Win XP hard drive with Belkin software also disappeared.
Now I am going to get the Hp printer working and then I will be cooking with gas!
G
Possible Answer
Posts: 311
I got the wireless working on my 64bit box by
ndiswrapper -l
and noting which exact device number it was seeing
then removing all the drivers except the exact one
rebooted and it worked....
To get your installation to
Posts: 1027
To get your installation to boot, you could first try adding the
nonet
option to your boot screen as you did on the live CD
If this doesn't help, boot from the live CD again, and edit
as root
/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
and add
blacklist bcm43xx
blacklist ndiswrapper
to this file.
Then, after successful boot, open a root konsole, type
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -l
(should show
driver present, hardware present)
then you can set up your network (no encryption) with
iwconfig
iwconfig wlan0 essid YOURESSID channel YOURCHANNEL#
dhclient wlan0
If this works, you can try removing
blacklist ndiswrapper
from the blacklist
and setting up wlan0 with
Mepis Network Assistant
Mike