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Post subject: Gateway laptop
 Posted: Mar 07, 2007 - 02:17 AM
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Location: Spanaway, Wa
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I have sidux installed on two desktop computers, both with ethernet and both running fine. I put it on my laptop and cannot connect to the internet or even my home network. I have a D-link DI524 wireless router. I have tried connecting my laptop via ethernet and it still will not connect. I have used the netcardconfig in the start menu, sidux. I have windows media edition also installed and it connects with no problems. The following info is from windows sytem info:
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OS Name Microsoft Windows XP Professional
Version 5.1.2600 Service Pack 2 Build 2600
OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation
System Name JBS-LAPTOP
System Manufacturer Gateway
System Model MX6442
System Type X86-based PC
Processor x86 Family 15 Model 36 Stepping 2 Authentic AMD ~1794 Mhz
BIOS Version/Date Gateway 68.04, 1/24/2006
SMBIOS Version 2.31
Windows Directory C:\WINDOWS
System Directory C:\WINDOWS\system32
Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1
Locale United States
Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "5.1.2600.2180 (xpsp_sp2_rtm.040803-2158)"
User Name JBS-LAPTOP\john
Time Zone Pacific Standard Time
Total Physical Memory 512.00 MB
Available Physical Memory 138.54 MB
Total Virtual Memory 2.00 GB
Available Virtual Memory 1.96 GB
Page File Space 1.78 GB
Page File C:\pagefile.sys
This is from the network from Device Manger in windows:
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NETWORK INFO FROM DEVICE MANAGER:
1394 Network Adapter
Broadcom 802.11g Network Adapter
Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series Wireless LAN Card
Direct Parallel
Marvell Yukon 88E8036 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Controller
WAN Miniport
This is from lspci in sidux:
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From lspci:
05:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 (AirForce One 54g) 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. I did a search and some reading but the suggestions didn't help. Since sidux won't connect I am unable to update or install anything. I can download from my desktop computer and use a usb drive to tranfer files but that is the only way.
Thanks in advance, and remember, I am a newbie to Linux.
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Post subject: RE: Gateway laptop
Posted: Mar 07, 2007 - 02:57 AM
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Joined: Dec 02, 2006
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Location: dayton, ohio, usa
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Probably easiest to get the wireless card working with ndiswrapper -- as root, blacklist the native driver (add to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist)
#bcm43xx interferes with ndiswrapper
blacklist bcm43xx
Then, put the windows drivers in a folder in linux. If the windows drivers are compressed you may be able to unpack with
unzip -a
If you don't have the windows drivers look here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/medi ... php/List#B
Make sure you get 32-bit drivers for your 32-bit install
Then set up with ndiswrapper in the folder where the drivers are -- you need both .inf and .sys files in the same folder
rmmod bcm43xx
rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe ndiswrapper
ndiswrapper -i drivername.inf
ndiswrapper -l (should show driver present, hardware present)
ndiswrapper -da
If all this works, card will be recognized on wlan0 and you can set up with netcardconfig or in konsole with iwconfig and dhclient ...
If this doesn't work, you can use the native driver:
ndiswrapper -e drivername
rmmod ndiswrapper
modprobe bcm43xx
run bcm43xx-fwcutter against your .sys file (firmware) and try to set up your wireless on eth0 (or possibly eth1)
The ethernet card should be recognized by the Marvell driver (sklin -- I don't know the exact name) but possibly that driver isn't in the kernel
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Post subject: RE: Gateway laptop
Posted: Mar 09, 2007 - 05:06 PM
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Location: Spanaway, Wa
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mdmarmer,
Please excuse me for not getting back sooner. It has been a busy time for me the last couple of weeks. Celebrated our 39th wedding anniversary, been babysitting granddaughters, had a power failure that wiped out my broadband. When the power failure happened it was almost a day before internet came back up. I discovered that my main computer which of course is running sidux could no longer connect to the internet or to my home network. I ended reinstalling and everything worked, then I did a du and had problems with samba and ati and had to reinstall again. I figured I might as well do that to the laptop so I reinstalled sidux there and now I have internet on it also. The ethernet connection works but the wifi still doesn't. Sometime in the near future, I hope, I will try again to get it working. Right now I am trying to get my main box back to the way I had it. Having some problems with FF, I use nightlies and sometimes they don't play right. I have copied your instructions and have saved them and will try them out soon. Thanks for your help and I will post back, eventually, with the results.
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Posted: Mar 11, 2007 - 02:34 AM
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This thread helped me get my Broadcom Wireless card working in Debian Etch. Hope it is of help to you.
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=7949
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Posted: Mar 11, 2007 - 10:41 AM
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| The kernel is already properly configured and bcm43xx-fwcutter should download and install the optimal firmware on its own once you install it. |
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Posted: Mar 13, 2007 - 10:00 PM
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Joined: Dec 03, 2006
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Thanks for the input, haven't had a chance to do anything with it yet. It is still on a back burner.
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Posted: Mar 28, 2007 - 12:14 AM
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Thanks to all for your help. I finally got around to working with my laptop. I got the wired connection to work and did a du (thanks h2). I then installed bcm43xx-fwcutter and everyhing seemed to work but I couldn't connect. I rebooted and now everything works fine. It is so good to have the wireless working and using sidux on my laptop.
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