cannot activate wireless network

[nevergiveup]

I have Broadcom corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) and I can see the wireless signal but cannot active it and connect to internet through the wireless card in fedora 8

# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Amit"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:118:3D6:05
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
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

Also I tried this,

# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:36:87:4F:30
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:28 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:988 (988.0 b) TX bytes:5272 (5.1 KiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0xa000

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:12043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12043 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:3545424 (3.3 MiB) TX bytes:3545424 (3.3 MiB)

wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:14:A5:E7:9E:94
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-14-A5-E7-9E-94-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

Anybody please help

[bbfuller]

Hello nevergiveup

The output of iwconfig shows you as associated with a wireless network, whereas ifconfig shows no ip address.

I suppose the first question must be have you input the access point "Amit" in some configuration program or script, or are you using NetworkManager to connect. That's the icon that sits on the Gnome Panel, top right in the notification area?

Secondly, are you trying to do this with the b43 driver or ndiswrapper.

Lastly, is your installation fully up to date or is it as you installed it?

[nevergiveup]

yes i was trying the network manager to connect, I installed my wireless card form the following link in forum http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum...ad.php?t=171660.
and as i am new to linux i know less about it. Yes I have fedora 8.

[Kasper-pA-]

try using wifi-radar (yum install wifi-radar)

If wifi-radar picks up NO wireless around you, go to cmd line and, ifup wlan0

then use wifi-radar and see what shows, worked on a new card i am trying to use... atm trying to tie it into NetworkManager but no luck yet...

note: Do u have wlan0 configured in modprobe.conf and under System -> Network ?

[nevergiveup]

wifi radar doesn't show the signal... but i am able to figure out the problem... the problem is that my broadcom wireless in installed under Ethernet connection but not under Wireless connection.. this i can see when i went inside the Network... Now i don't know how to fix this problem... can you please help me on this

[Kasper-pA-]

are u using the bcm or ndiswrapper?

[nevergiveup]

how to know that? sorry i know very less about linux

[Kasper-pA-]

under system -> network -> wlan0

which driver are you using?

or you can check your /etc/modprobe.conf file for the alias wlan0

[nevergiveup]

vi /etc/modprobe.conf

alias eth0 forcedeth
alias scsi_hostadapter libata
alias scsi_hostadapter1 sata_nv
alias scsi_hostadapter2 pata_amd
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
alias eth1 forcedeth

[phe]

Hello nevergiveup,

I had +/- the same problem.
For the moment my system is working. I do noet exactly know what I've done.
(I've done several action )

But maybe this can help.

For the moment i run in runlevel 5 (as a regular user, not ROOT !)

I've disabled networkmanager and networkmanagerdispatcher
everything done with su -c '. . . . . . '
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 networkmanager off
/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 networkmanagerdispatch off
/sbin/service networkmanger stop
/sbin/service networkmangerdispatch stop

su -c '/sbin/iwconfig interface essid your essidname channel yourchannelnbr'
su -c '/sbin/ifconfig interface 192.168.1.15 up'
su -c '/sbin/route add default gw 192.168.1.1 interface'

check your /etc/resolve.conf
search localdomain
nameserver 127.0.0.1
nameserver 192.168.1.1

regards,

phe

[nyjetshead]

The link you posted doesn't work, what driver did you install or is it working as based on the installation out of the box.

the problem is that my broadcom wireless in installed under Ethernet connection but not under Wireless connection.. this i can see when i went inside the Network... Now i don't know how to fix this problem... can you please help me on this

Your wireless device is wlan0
broadcom makes ethernet chipset as well that is probably eth0 on your system.
You can confirm this by /sbin/lspci

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"Amit"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:118:3D6:05
Tx-Power=27 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
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

It appears to be working but the above shows virtually no signal
Are you trying to connect to a wireless router in your home?

What do you get with
/sbin/iwlist scanning

Also I would not give up on NM just yet I would uninstall wifi radar if you want to use NM.

To use network manager be sure its on.

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManager on

/sbin/chkconfig --level 345 NetworkManagerDispatcher on

/sbin/service NetworkManager start ; /sbin/service NetworkManagerDispatcher start

reboot: