fwcutter/wifi on FC6 ?
Kim Lux
lux at diesel-research.com
Wed Oct 25 23:54:31 UTC 2006
I've used ndiswrapper (and Fedora for that matter) for the last 2 years.
I just updated to FC6 and I am having trouble getting my broadcom
wireless card working with fwcutter.
I'd appreciate some help.
OK, so I've done the following:
a) downloaded and installed fwcutter
b) cut the driver with /usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware
bcmwl5.sys
c) /sbin/depmod -a and /sbin/modprobe bcm43xx
No probs so far.
I also did a "make clean" on my last ndiswrapper build, just to make
sure that wasn't interfering with anything.
Then I ran system-config-network and I removed any wireless devices that
I had in the Devices list.
When I look on the Hardware tab, I see 2 wireless items:
1) Broadcom Corp Wirelss as eth1
2) bcm43xx as wlan0
Should I be seeing TWO items in this list ?
If I exit system-config-network WITHOUT setting up eth1 and
run /etc/inet.d/network restart, I get the following:
/etc/init.d/network restart
Shutting down interface eth0: wlan0: error fetching interface
information: Device not found
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
External network device wlan0 is not ready. Aborting..
[ OK ]
Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up loopback interface: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0:
Determining IP information for eth0...wlan0: error fetching interface
information: Device not found
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
External network device wlan0 is not ready. Aborting..
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
wlan0: error fetching interface information: Device not found
External network device wlan0 is not ready. Aborting..
done.
Why is it trying to init wlan0 if I don't have a device set up for it ?
Why am I getting these errors on wlan0 ? Does this mean that I don't
have the driver info properly cut for eth1 ?
Are eth1 and wlan0 the same thing ?
Thanks.
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Kim Lux, Diesel Research Inc.
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