Okay I've reinstalled from scratch with a default install.
And installed all the security and recommended online patches.
Nothing more. Nothing less. At this point I have a very vanilla install.
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Nkoli
When you ran install_bcm43xx_firmware, did it display any errors - ie, did the installation complete?
No, no errors at all.
If the install completed, you should be able to run 'modprobe b43' to load the driver. The driver should load automatically at startup, but if you modprobe it, run 'dmesg' right afterwards to see any errors that may be preventing it from loading.
modprobe b43 seems to work fine. Prior to running it, lsmod " grep b43 showed nothing even after a clean reboot. Afterwords it had several entries. == linux-xevi:/home/gaf # lsmod | grep b43 b43 135688 0 ssb 45132 1 b43 rfkill 11044 1 b43 pcmcia 38640 2 b43,ssb mac80211 242320 1 b43 led_class 5008 1 b43 input_polldev 4664 1 b43 pcmcia_core 39140 3 b43,ssb,pcmcia == I then did a rcnetwork restart Shutting down the NetworkManager done Shutting down network interfaces: eth0 device: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E Fast EthernetController (rev 12) done Shutting down service network . . . . . . . . . done Starting the NetworkManager done Looks right to me. But I still don't see the equivalent of a NIC!! linux-xevi:/home/gaf # ifconfig -a eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1D:09:48:3B:80 inet6 addr: fe80::21d:9ff:fe48:3b80/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:3481 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:2639 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:4091036 (3.9 Mb) TX bytes:390909 (381.7 Kb) Interrupt:16 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:56 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3536 (3.4 Kb) TX bytes:3536 (3.4 Kb) linux-xevi:/home/gaf # iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions.
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