<br>Steve and Guys,<br><br>I didn't use the new driver "R174291.EXE" because I got to detect my wireless card apllying "ifconfig wlan0" and "iwconfig" commands after boot.<br><br>If anything more help me after that, I'll use the new driver that you said with ndiswrapper and see what will happen.<br>
<br>So ... after a thousand things that I did ... I'm not have my wireless card ok!<br><br>Must I do anything else? <br><br>Anybody knows exactly what's happen? <br><br><br><br>This was my troubleshooting until now to solve my problem with my Wireless Card.<br>
<br><br><br>1 - Install ndiswrapper for my correct type of kernel:<br><br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# rpm -qa |grep ndiswrapper<br>kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.54-4.el5.elrepo.i686<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>
<br><br>2 - Load de module ndiswrapper after installation (modprobe ndiswrapper):<br><br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# lsmod |grep ndiswrapper<br>ndiswrapper 169744 0<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br>3 - Configuring ndiswrapper to use the drive (ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf) <br>
<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# ndiswrapper -l<br>bcmwl5 : driver installed<br> device (14E4:4328) present<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br><br>4 - Boot the system to verify with the hardware is detected using dmesg comand to do it:<br>
<br>[root@musashi ~]# dmesg |grep wlan0<br>wlan0: ethernet device 00:1f:3a:43:f7:b8 using NDIS driver: bcmwl5, version: 0x4640f05, NDIS version: 0x501, vendor: 'NDIS Network Adapter', 14E4:4328.5.conf<br>wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP; TKIP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK; AES/CCMP with WPA, WPA2, WPA2PSK<br>
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br>5 - Verifying that the system has the hardware recognized:<br><br>[root@musashi ~]# lspci -v<br><br>0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)<br>
Subsystem: Dell Wireless 1500 Draft 802.11n WLAN Mini-card<br> Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 177<br> Memory at fe7fc000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=16K]<br> Memory at f0000000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=1M]<br>
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2<br> Capabilities: [58] Vendor Specific Information<br> Capabilities: [e8] Message Signalled Interrupts: 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable-<br> Capabilities: [d0] Express Endpoint IRQ 0<br>
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting<br> Capabilities: [13c] Virtual Channel<br> Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 1f-00-43-ff-ff-3a-b8-f7<br> Capabilities: [16c] Power Budgeting<br>
<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br><br>6 - Verifying that the system has the logical hardware recognized:<br><br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# ifconfig wlan0<br>wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1F:3A:43:F7:B8<br>
BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000<br>
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)<br> Interrupt:177 Memory:fe7fc000-fe800000<br><br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# iwconfig<br>lo no wireless extensions.<br>
<br>eth0 no wireless extensions.<br><br>sit0 no wireless extensions.<br><br>vmnet1 no wireless extensions.<br><br>vmnet8 no wireless extensions.<br><br>wlan0 IEEE 802.11a ESSID:off/any<br> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated<br>
Bit Rate:270 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm<br> RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B<br> Encryption key:off<br> Power Management:off<br> Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0<br>
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0<br> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0<br><br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br><br>7 - Creating and configuring file relacted about wireless card:<br>
<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0<br>TYPE=Wireless<br>DEVICE=wlan0<br>HWADDR=00:1F:3A:43:F7:B8<br>BOOTPROTO=dhcp<br>#NETMASK=<br>DHCP_HOSTNAME=dlink >>>>>> The hostname "dlink" id specified in /etc/hosts file<br>
#IPADDR=<br>#DOMAIN=<br>ONBOOT=no<br>USERCTL=yes<br>IPV6INIT=no<br>PEERDNS=no<br>ESSID=1234<br>CHANNEL=6<br>MODE=Auto<br>SECURITYMODE=wep<br>RATE=auto<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# cat /etc/hosts<br>
# Do not remove the following line, or various programs<br># that require network functionality will fail.<br>127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost<br>::1 localhost6.localdomain6 localhost6<br>
<br>10.1.1.1 dlink<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br><br>8 - My complaint totally nervous:<br><br>[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]# Ohhhhhhh shit !!!!!!<br>bash: Ohhhhhhh: command not found<br>
[root@musashi ~]#<br>[root@musashi ~]#<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/23 S.Tindall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:s10dal@elrepo.org">s10dal@elrepo.org</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br>
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:24 -0200, Wagner Silva Vieira wrote:<br>
<br>
> Steve,<br>
><br>
> I did all procedures that you suggested.<br>
><br>
> Look at these bellow:<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> # uname -rpmi<br>
> 2.6.18-128.el5PAE i686 i686 i386<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> # rpm -q kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE<br>
> kmod-ndiswrapper-PAE-1.54-4.el5.elrepo.i686<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> # ifconfig wlan0<br>
> wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found<br>
><br>
</div><div class="im">> Must I create the configuration file ifcfg-wlan0 like ifcfg-eth0<br>
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ to get success in command "ifconfig<br>
> wlan0" ?<br>
><br>
> I'll find informations about it in some manuals and books mine.<br>
><br>
> Thank's for the help guys!<br>
<br>
</div>Wagner.<br>
<br>
It looks like ndiswrapper is OK and that the current problem is with<br>
installing the BCM4328 firmware.<br>
<br>
Noting that we appear to have the same Broadcom chipset (BCM4328), there<br>
is a newer Dell firmware (R174291.EXE) that I found to work better than<br>
the original R151517.EXE. There may be newer firmware that works even<br>
better, but I have not researched it a while.<br>
<br>
Here are some steps that should work for you, but I should warn you that<br>
I am not a wireless expert:<br>
<br>
$ mkdir ~/wireless<br>
$ cd ~/wireless<br>
$ wget <a href="http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.EXE" target="_blank">http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R174291.EXE</a><br>
$ mkdir driver<br>
$ sudo yum install unzip<br>
$ unzip -a R174291.EXE -d driver/<br>
$ cd driver/DRIVER_US<br>
<br>
$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf<br>
$ sudo /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l<br>
<br>
$ sudo vi /etc/modprobe.conf<br>
> Add/modify:<br>
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper<br>
<br>
$ sudo /sbin/modprobe ndiswrapper<br>
<br>
$ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0<br>
> Add/modify:<br>
TYPE=Wireless<br>
DEVICE=wlan0<br>
HWADDR=<Actual-MAC><br>
BOOTPROTO=dhcp<br>
NETMASK=<br>
DHCP_HOSTNAME=<dhcp-host-name><br>
IPADDR=<br>
DOMAIN=<br>
ONBOOT=no<br>
USERCTL=yes<br>
IPV6INIT=no<br>
PEERDNS=yes<br>
ESSID=<br>
CHANNEL=<br>
MODE=Auto<br>
SECURITYMODE=off<br>
RATE=auto<br>
<br>
If avahi and NetworkManager are not already installed and running, then:<br>
<br>
$ sudo yum install avahi NetworkManager<br>
$ sudo /sbin/chkconfig avahi-daemon on<br>
$ sudo /sbin/chkconfig NetworkManager on<br>
$ sudo /sbin/service avahi-daemon start<br>
$ sudo /sbin/service NetworkManager start<br>
<br>
You may need to reboot the system at this point.<br>
<br>
Hope that helps.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
Steve<br>
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