[LBo] Re: new system setup, progress and questions

[Ray Still]

>
> The problem with the wireless may be due to using Edgy(6.10) and the
> 2.6.17 kernel and madwifi (new version).  I use madwifi and it worked in
> Ubuntu 6.06 and is working in my upgraded 6.10, but only with my old
> 2.6.15 kernel which has the old madwifi drivers (restricted modules
> package.)  Do 'lsmod |grep ath' to see if you have ath_pci listed.  If you
> do, I imagine you are having that same problem.  I have submitted bugs on
> this and still have no answer.  I think they need wlanconfig in their
> restricted modules package for the the new madwifi.
>
> If you are not using ath_pci, then please check 'lspci' to see what your
> wifi card is.  It may be a similar bug with another driver.

the wireless network is one of the Broadcom 43xx cards, this list indicated 
that the built in broadcom drivers didn't work, and I needed to switch to 
ndiswrapper. the links provided by the list all had parts that didn't work 
with KDE or Kubuntu. example a gnome utility or a file that was a little 
different name or location that I wasn't smart enough to correct for. 
Because of your direction I was able to find a walk through that did work.
any way, I'm running ndiswrapper and 'lsmod |grep ath'  returns absolutly 
nothing. one thing I did notice, mentioned from before, is that the wireless 
card is eth1, not wlan0. does this mean anything?
thanks,
Ray

>
> About the network card, I think you just need to do something like 'ifup 
> eth0'
> to bring it up.  If it is not connected at boot, then it cannot be brought 
> up.
>
> Anita
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