Wireless Card Doesn't Seem to Working :(

Lovell Mcilwain lovell.mcilwain at gmail.com
Thu Oct 13 13:25:37 UTC 2005


Hello All,

I am not sure what happened to my machine but for whatever reason, my  
wireless card has stopped functioning all together.

I basically rebooted my machine, cause my network dropped but that  
didn't seem to fix the problem.

I am running FC4 and using ndiswrapper since it doesn't have  
supporter drivers for Broadcom WIFI cards.

Things I have tried:

1. Tried specifying my network settings via the gui and via command line
2. Created a new network profile and entered my settings (using dhcp  
and static IP address)
3. Re-installed ndiswrapper and Broadcom drivers

In between all of these I ran dmesg to try and see what was going on  
but all I saw was:

  ACPI-0105: *** Error: Could not allocate new owner_id (32 max),  
AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT
  ACPI-0509: *** Error: Method execution failed  
[\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BAT1._BST] (Node dfe261c0), AE_OWNER_ID_LIMIT

And there are no other messages.

In /var/log/messages I saw:
Oct 13 09:14:20 Blade dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to  
255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 1
Oct 13 09:14:21 Blade dhclient: No DHCPOFFERS received.
Oct 13 09:14:21 Blade dhclient: No working leases in persistent  
database - sleeping.

When I do an ifconfig I see:

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:90:4B:9F:99:9E
           inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fe9f:999e/64 Scope:Link
           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
           Memory:e8100000-e8101fff

Can any tell me anyway i can fix this?





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