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# 1  
Old 03-26-2006
Wireless card won't pick up network
I'm trying to get my wireless card up. I've been at it for a while now and something just isn't quite working right. I'm not getting any wireless signal. I'm using FC4 with a stack 16 kernel and ndiswrappr to load my drivers.

here are the outputs that i get.

Quote:
[root@byblyk ndiswrapper]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present
Quote:
[root@byblyk ndiswrapper]# /sbin/iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management min timeout:0us mode:All packets received
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
Alittle bit about my wireless network that i use. It does not boradcast the ESSID and has encryption. Also it is wireless B and not G. I've use iwconfig to set teh ESSID and encryption but for some reason it won't take. I've also tried it using the KDE GUI.

My wireless card is a broadcom B/G and has worked under XP and Mandrake 10.0 using ndiswrapper under mandrake. I'm all for a challenge but i'm going on 3 weeks working this out now and it's starting to frustrate me.

Does anybody have any ideas clues sudgestions or solutions? If so let me know plz it would be greatly appreacated.

Thanks
Byblyk

ALSO: on boot when i boot up and it loads netowrk devices it disables IRQ 5 for some odd reson.
Last edited by byblyk; 03-26-2006 at 04:09 AM.. Reason: Disable smilies
# 2  
Old 03-27-2006
It doesnt look like your card is detected/enabled. Post the output of lspci -v
# 3  
Old 03-27-2006
Quote:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP Host Bridge (rev 02)
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 1234
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Memory at d2000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=32M]
Memory at d0000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [a0] AGP version 3.0

00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc Radeon 9100 IGP AGP Bridge (prog-if 00 [Normal decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 99
Bus: primary=00, secondary=01, subordinate=01, sec-latency=68
I/O behind bridge: 00009000-00009fff
Memory behind bridge: d0100000-d01fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: e0000000-efffffff

00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #1 (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d0001000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:13.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc OHCI USB Controller #2 (rev 01) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d0002000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]

00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc ATI SMBus (rev 16)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: 66Mhz, medium devsel
I/O ports at 8040 [size=16]
Memory at 44000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1K]

00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller (prog-if 8a [Master SecP PriP])
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc ATI Dual Channel Bus Master PCI IDE Controller
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at <ignored>
I/O ports at 8060 [size=16]

00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Subsystem: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 434c
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 0

00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown device 4342 (prog-if 01 [Subtractive decode])
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 64
Bus: primary=00, secondary=02, subordinate=04, sec-latency=69
I/O behind bridge: 0000a000-0000afff
Memory behind bridge: d0200000-d02fffff
Prefetchable memory behind bridge: 40000000-43ffffff

00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP150 AC'97 Audio Controller
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at d0003000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

00:14.6 Modem: ATI Technologies Inc IXP AC'97 Modem (rev 01) (prog-if 00 [Generic])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, 66Mhz, slow devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at d0003400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]

01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS300M AGP [Radeon Mobility 9100IGP] (prog-if 00 [VGA])
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, fast Back2Back, 66Mhz, medium devsel, latency 255, IRQ 10
Memory at e0000000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=256M]
I/O ports at 9000 [size=256]
Memory at d0100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=64K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at d0120000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [58] AGP version 3.0
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 12f4
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at d0200000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]

02:03.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 128, IRQ 11
I/O ports at a000 [size=256]
Memory at d0204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2

02:04.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at d0205000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=03, subordinate=06, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 40000000-41fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 46000000-47fff000
I/O window 0: 0000a400-0000a4ff
I/O window 1: 0000a800-0000a8ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:04.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1520 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 01)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 006b
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 168, IRQ 10
Memory at d0206000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Bus: primary=02, secondary=07, subordinate=0a, sec-latency=176
Memory window 0: 42000000-43fff000 (prefetchable)
Memory window 1: 48000000-49fff000
I/O window 0: 0000ac00-0000acff
I/O window 1: 00001400-000014ff
16-bit legacy interface ports at 0001

02:07.0 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 10
Memory at d0202000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

02:07.1 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB (rev 43) (prog-if 10 [OHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation USB
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 5
Memory at d0203000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2

02:07.2 USB Controller: NEC Corporation USB 2.0 (rev 04) (prog-if 20 [EHCI])
Subsystem: NEC Corporation USB 2.0
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11
Memory at d0204400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
After looking at this, i see there could be a possible conflict between the USB and my wireless card. I'm not too sure if i'm correct tho.

Thanks
Byblyk
# 4  
Old 03-31-2006
Just an update i did some tinkering and reloaded the modules and now when i try to bring the interface up it says

Quote:
/sbin/ifup wlan0
Error : unrecognised wireless request "Mb/s"
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
SET failed on device wlan0 ; Invalid argument.

Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present. Check cable?
I've got some googling to do but any body seen this before?


Thanks
Byblyk
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