wlan not present

[Edward Dekkers]

Johan Lozano wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 16:42 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> 
>>On Sunday 07 August 2005 04:00, Johan Lozano wrote:
>>
>>>hi list,
>>>
>>>i am trying to install a wireless network on a acer aspire 5020 with a
>>>broadcom 4318 nic without any success.
>>>
>>>ndiswrapper is installed
>>>ndiswrapper -l reports:
>>>installed ndis drivers:
>>>bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
>>>
>>>but in the network configuration keep having this message on activating
>>>wlan0:
>>>ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying
>>>initialisation.
>>
>>Did you follow the instruction here:
>>http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation 
>>?
>>
>>What's the output of 'iwconfig' ? 
>>
>>RDB
>>
>>
> 
> with the driver in time of posting this, the output of iwconfig was:
> 
> [root at mbarwen ~]$ iwconfig
> 
> lo        no wireless extensions.
> 
> eth0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> sit0      no wireless extensions.
> 
> i suppose it was because the driver is a win32 driver.
> in the meantime i found an other driver, one for the x86_64
> architecture. wlan0 is now detected but now he complains about the fact
> it is compiled for revision 17 and the card is one of revision 18 and
> that some options will not work properly. 
> and really, it does not work at all.
> 
> so i sent a mail to acer for help, got a ticket number but still no
> answer.
> 
> thanks anyway
> 
> 
> Johan Lozano
> MicroBit, Duffel
> E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be
> 
> GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
> 
> 
> 

Stupid question, but is the driver even loading?

insmod ndiswrapper
lsmod | grep ndiswrapper

Check logs if not and see why not.

Regards,
Ed.

P.S. the revision 17/18 thing I get as well but it still works just fine.


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