Wireless Woes

[Howard Coles Jr.]

On Monday 19 June 2006 1:54 pm, Joseph wrote:
> The problem is that you have the restricted modules installed and the
> nativeHello Howard & everyone,
>
>   Thanks for the details.  I have a Broadcom (stupid proprietary lame wifi
> card in my Acer Asspire 1600).  Here are all the details:
>
> /home/admin# lsmod |grep bc
> bcm43xx               124044  0
> ieee80211softmac       29696  1 bcm43xx
> ieee80211              37064  2 bcm43xx,ieee80211softmac
> usbcore               130692  4 ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,ohci_hcd
> fbcon                  42784  72
> tileblit                2816  1 fbcon
> font                    8320  1 fbcon
> bitblit                 6272  1 fbcon
>

Yes. I would disable the bcm43xx by blacklisting it as another poster has 
done. 1.  The bcm43xx module only supports 11MB or 802.11b speeds even if its 
a g wireless card.  2.  I had some funny issues with the WAP locking up while 
running it. 3.  It takes some effort to extract the firmware to actually make 
the native broadcom drivers work at the moment.  They are doing a fairly good 
job trying to create a native broadcom driver, however it still in early 
stages of development, I think.

edit the /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist file (through vi or kedit) (sudo 
vi /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist OR kdesu kedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist).
add the following lines:  

# Do Not Load the native Broadcom Driver
blacklist bcm43xx

You should then be able to proceed with NDISWRAPPER as you would like.

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Howard Coles Jr.
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