[Dapper]ifconfig wlan0 errors out

[C Hamel]

On Friday 24 February 2006 19:49, Matthew Nicholson wrote:
> the bcm43xx modules/ and cards nics that use it need the firmware
> in /lib/firmware to work. you can extract it with fwcutter, from teh
> windows drivers. however, this , for me is very, very flaky and i just
> stick with ndiswrapper, even though its an ugly hack at best.
>
> On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 19:37 -0600, C Hamel wrote:
> > First, installing kubuntu Flight4 came back w/the wireless card being
> > called eth0 & the wired card being called eth1.  Oh well.
> >
> > After loading the Broadcom driver, bcmwl5.inf/sys files into ndiswrapper
> > I ran into problems.  Iwconfig came back w/no wireless found, and when I
> > attempted...
> > # ifconfig eth0 [IP address]
> > ...and got an error regarding the bcm43xx_microcode.fw being absent.    I
> > tried 'modprobe bcm43xx' and that was no help. I then did a deliberate
> > search...
> > # find / -iname bcm43xx_microcode.fw
> > ...and nothing was found.
> >
> > First, I prefer my wired network card to be eth0 & the wireless to be
> > wlan0. Past that inconvenience, Breezy loads the drivers w/o any problems
> > --using the afore-mentioned names-- and I have, on numerous occasions,
> > used the wireless at the office & the wired at my home office.  Dapper
> > has trouble with this.  Should I file a bug report on this, perhaps??
> >
> > Any suggestions appreciated. :-)
So yours is working, then??  Is this post-hack or pre-hack??  Mine absolutely 
does not work.
-- 
	...CH
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