Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 14:30:56 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 04, 2009 at 13:46:08 -0400, JoeHill wrote: > > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > The Broadcom STA driver (a.k.a. "wl") is included in Squeeze and Sid > > > > > in the non-free section; it can be built with module-assistant: > > > > > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2009/06/msg00439.html > > [...] > > > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# iwconfig > > > > lo no wireless extensions. > > > > > > > > eth0 no wireless extensions. > > > > > > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# ifconfig wlan0 up > > > > wlan0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device > > [...] > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# uname -a > > Linux tablet 2.6.26-2-686 #1 SMP Sun Jun 21 04:57:38 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# dpkg -l broadcom-\* ndiswrapper-\* | awk > > '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}' > > ii broadcom-sta-common 5.10.91.9-1 > > un broadcom-sta-modules <none> > > ii broadcom-sta-modules-2.6.26-2-686 5.10.91.9-1+2.6.26-17 > > ii broadcom-sta-source 5.10.91.9-1 > > pn ndiswrapper-common <none> > > rc ndiswrapper-modules-2.6.26-2-686 1.54-2+2.6.26-17 > > ii ndiswrapper-source 1.54-2 > > un ndiswrapper-utils <none> > > pn ndiswrapper-utils-1.9 <none> > > > > tablet:/home/lajolla# lsmod | grep -E 'bcm|b43|wl|ndis' > > > > I'm thinking that last command should have had _some_ output... > > Try "modprobe -v wl" as root; that should either give you wlan0 or some > error messages that tell us what goes wrong. (I suspect that you might > need a newer kernel.)
The only output I get from modprobe (every time) is: WARNING: All config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/nvidia-kernel-nkc, it will be ignored in a future release. -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
