tehjones
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Joined: Mar. 2007 |
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Posted: Mar. 22 2007,04:37 |
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ok, first off, my problem involves my broadcom 4311 and DSL-N, booting from a 256mb flash drive.
i finaly got ndiswrapper to load my driver (turns out i had a bad copy), but my wireless still wont work.;
after i install bcmwl5.inf i run this:
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ndiswrapper -l |
and it shows that driver and hardware are installed.
then i do
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sudo ndiswrapper -m |
and it say something about allies wlan0. normal so far (i think...)
then i try
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sudo iwconfig wlan0and |
it tells me that there is no such device.
then just to see what happens, i tried the next step:
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sude iwconfig wlan0 "my ssid" key "my wep" |
and it said that if failed at wireless device and that is doesnt exist.
i thought everything was working up to this point, but then my card wont show up. am i missing a step?
like i said, this is all in damn small linux-not. and it is being loaded from a 256mb flash drive. i have been running it this way ever since i screwed up my first ubuntu install (dual booting with xp) and grub spazed out so bad that i had to wipe myentire hard drive (im sure there were other options, but i wanted to start clean.).
my thinking is that if i screw this up, i can wipe it and start over agian (and again, and again....) with little or no impact on the rest of my system. at least that the thought. could this problem be cuased by booting from the flash drive. i know that doing it this way is sub-optimum, as it hold everything in a single FAT partition. but that wouldnt effect this, would it?
AAARG !!
thanks in advance guys,
jones
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