Activating Wireless on Fedora 7

[mikntwd]

Installed bcm43xx-fwcutter
Installed broadcom drivers "MAC driver" for Linksys WMP54GS wireless card
--> /usr/bin/bcm43xx-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta.o
Enabled NetworkManager
Rebooted

Problem: No Wireless Network Connection

1) When opening NetworkManager, no wireless device is present
2) when using Terminal, Iwconfig shows Access Point "Not Associated"

Current Values of Fedora Core 7

IWCONFIG OUTPUT:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"jamnz"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346
Encryption key:6CB4-869D-D926-1B86-DFCB-4BED-13
Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

My Dmesg output for wireless device:
bcm43xx_mac80211: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
bcm43xx_mac80211: Found PHY: Analog 2, Type 2, Revision 2
bcm43xx_mac80211: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
[B]bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio turned off[/B

I'm looking for any input as to how to get it working.
Thank you for your assistance :-)

[jjesurun]

u should install ndiswrapper and then extract the .cab files from the windows drivers and run the .inf file. that worked for me.

[mikntwd]

If I were to chose to using the Ndiswrapper method, would I do the following before installing ndiswrapper?
uninstall the bcm43xx-fwcutter?
uninstall the bcm43xx-mac80211 as well?

[jjesurun]

no, what u do is u install ndiswrapper, which ever version u got, or go here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php and download the latest one.

Install ndiswrapper, then, extract the cab files from the windows drivers, which here they tell u how to do it:
http://www.linlap.com/wiki/Configuri...+Linux+drivers
go to where it says fedora 7

and when u finish with that u go back here http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/joomla/index.php, go to documents/wiki, installation, and scroll down to where it says install windows driver, to load the driver.

let me know if anything

[akhil999in]

Experimenting with rmmod, modprobe and lsmod has identified that bcm43xx_mac80211 causes.flood of
error messages on console:

glibtop: Failed to open "/sys/class/net/wmaster0/statistics/rx_packets": No such file or directory
glibtop: Failed to open "/sys/class/net/wmaster0/statistics/tx_packets": No such file or directory

It is Fedora Core 7 on Laptop.

Output of uname -a:
uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.21-1.3194.fc7 #1 SMP Wed May 23 22:35:01 EDT 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

Selected output of dmesg | less:

ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 5 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Ignoring additional 802.11 core
ssb: Switching to PCI core, index 4
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:00:09.0
bcm43xx_mac80211: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
bcm43xx_mac80211: Found PHY: Analog 1, Type 2, Revision 1
bcm43xx_mac80211: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio turned off
natsemi dp8381x driver, version 2.1, Sept 11, 2006
originally by Donald Becker <becker@scyld.com>
http://www.scyld.com/network/natsemi.html
2.4.x kernel port by Jeff Garzik, Tjeerd Mulder
wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNK1] enabled at IRQ 10

ssb: Core 0 found: ChipCommon (cc 0x800, rev 0x02, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 1 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 2 found: PCMCIA (cc 0x80D, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 3 found: V90 (cc 0x807, rev 0x01, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 4 found: PCI (cc 0x804, rev 0x07, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Core 5 found: IEEE 802.11 (cc 0x812, rev 0x04, vendor 0x4243)
ssb: Ignoring additional 802.11 core
ssb: Switching to PCI core, index 4
ssb: Sonics Silicon Backplane found on PCI device 0000:00:09.0
bcm43xx_mac80211: Broadcom 4306 WLAN found
ssb: Switching to IEEE 802.11 core, index 1
bcm43xx_mac80211: Found PHY: Analog 1, Type 2, Revision 1
bcm43xx_mac80211: Found Radio: Manuf 0x17F, Version 0x2050, Revision 2
bcm43xx_mac80211: Radio turned off
wmaster0: Selected rate control algorithm 'simple'
ACPI: PCI interrupt for device 0000:00:09.0 disabled
(END)

When it has automatically selected bcm43xx_mac80211 then why does it give so many error messages?