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by **pxc** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 23:16

A friend of mine with an Inspiron 2200 successfully worked through this, but for some reason, after a reboot, it didn't work anymore. No wireless networks showed up and iwconfig didn't show him wlan0. I just got done talking on the phone with him about it, but apparently he feels to busy to actually troubleshoot it. Anyhow, he re-followed the instructions in this tutorial (post-reboot) and says it doesn't work anymore.

by **cvill64** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 23:21

Tutorial section is not for saying something does or doesn't work, please discuss that elseware, tutorial replies are for fixes or such

Also, this friend of yours needs to give a lot more information that: it doesn't work

What distro, what did he do, etc etc. I confirmed the tutorial with our wireless guy, so I'll point him to this to triple check

by **pxc** » Sun Sep 03, 2006 23:31

He's using the Sabayon miniEdition (3.0RC2), and on the back of his laptop, the wireless card says "BRCM1016." After some research I discovered that this is (supposedly) a Dell Truemobile 1370 MiniPCI WLan card. After some more research I find out that this is a bcm4318 chipset, covered by the bc43xx drivers.

Anyway, the first time he went through the tutorial, he said it worked fine: he could see three networks, including his own, could connect and get to the internet, blah blah blah. Then he said that after a reboot it didn't work, so he re-followed the steps, which also didn't work. I'll try to get him to post something himself by tomorrow, but I've been trying to get those stupid drivers working for a couple of weeks (loads of spyware borked his Windows install a few weeks ago, so I put SuSe 10.1 on there, and when we nailed that install trying to get the wireless working, I had him try Sabayon).

by **cvill64** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 0:09

lol, umm...try adding wlan0 to the run time boot, might help in this case

by **Dark_MaGe** » Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:31

mmm... broadcom is always a mess...first of all it would be better recompile the kernel and deativate broadcom wiress support, then ndiswrapper is the best solution for broadcom right now

by **pxc** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 5:18

Jordan is such a goofball. He said it worked when he re-modprobed ndiswrapper. I just need to remember which text file autoloads the modules... lol.

Edit:
I just did a

Code: Select all: locate module | grep auto

and found it.

Sorry for bothering you at all, with this. I should have caught Jordan when his g/f wasn't on the other line... XD

by **cvill64** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 16:24

lol, np, I was just pretty sure that howto was solid, esp. after DarkMage okayed it

by **Dark_MaGe** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 16:53

oh dear....I'm flushing... :oops:

by **cvill64** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 16:55

hey man, just coz lxnay choose me as his co-lead doesn't mean I shouldn't look to people who are especially skilled in others areas

by **Dark_MaGe** » Wed Sep 06, 2006 17:03

thanks chris

but my knowledge is limited to that...you're far better than me on linux

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