ubuntu 8.10 wireless connection

ldr

hello again
new problem, so im enjoying ubuntu so much that i decided to install it on the laptop.
the istallation went really well. until i try to connect to the internet.
i have eircom broadband and i have a wireless router, but i cant connect to it, i have tryed and tryed and google but find no solution. can anyone help?

thank you please anybody????????

An Fear Aniar

We need to find out if your wireless card is supported. Please copy and paste this

lshw -C network

into a terminal and past the result here.

Also do this and give the outcome:

iwconfig

Also try

sudo dhclient wlan0

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ldr

thank you very much for your help


WARNING: you should run this program as super-user.
*-network:0
description: Network controller
product: BCM4311 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver
vendor: Broadcom Corporation
physical id: 2
bus info: pci@0000:06:02.0
version: 02
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master
configuration: driver=b43-pci-bridge latency=64 module=ssb
*-network:1
description: Ethernet interface
product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
physical id: 6
bus info: pci@0000:06:06.0
logical name: eth0
version: 10
serial: 00:16:d4:0b:43:ae
width: 32 bits
clock: 33MHz
capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical
configuration: broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 latency=128 maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 module=8139too multicast=yes
*-network:0 DISABLED
description: Wireless interface
physical id: 1
logical name: wlan0
serial: 00:14:a5:aa:d0:2b
capabilities: ethernet physical wireless
configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11bg
*-network:1 DISABLED

ldr

the second command came out this:

lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

wmaster0 no wireless extensions.

wlan0 IEEE 802.11bg ESSID:""
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated
Tx-Power=0 dBm
Retry min limit:7 RTS thr:off Fragment thr=2352 B
Power Management: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

pan0 no wireless extensions.


the 3rd:

Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:14:a5:aa:d0:2b
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:14:a5:aa:d0:2b
Sending on Socket/fallback
receive_packet failed on wlan0: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
send_packet: Network is down
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

An Fear Aniar

See if this works

sudo modprobe wl
sudo modprobe b43
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

Got the method from here:

http://ge.ubuntuforums.com/showpost.php?p=6040238&postcount=8

This loads the modules from the kernel which hopefully get you Broadcom card working. It then starts up the network.

See what happens if you try that.
.

ldr

no this was the outcome.

:~$ sudo modprobe -r b43 b44 ssb ndiswrapper bcm43xx wl
FATAL: Module bcm43xx not found.
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe wl
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe b44
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... ok

but nothing happens.

this is my laptop if that helps.
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareList?os=228&lc=en&dlc=en&cc=us&lang=en&product=1848243
thanks for the help

An Fear Aniar

OK, I assume you didn't install ndiswrapper and all that?

It's just these commands here:

sudo modprobe -r ssb
sudo modprobe wl
sudo modprobe b43
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

ldr

i did and this was the result


ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe -r ssb
FATAL: Module ssb is in use.
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe wl
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo modprobe b43
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
* Reconfiguring network interfaces... [ OK ]
ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$



but still nothing. cant detect any wireless network

ldr

ldrmss@ldrmss-laptop:~$ lspci | grep Broadcom\ Corporation
06:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4311 [AirForce 54g] 802.11a/b/g PCI Express Transceiver (rev 02)

An Fear Aniar

Sorry, try this:

sudo rmmod ssb
sudo modprobe wl
sudo modprobe b43
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart

If that doesn't work, go to the Ubuntu forums:

http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=336


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ldr

finally got it to work.
but i dont think the driver is well installed because i get this message

fwcutter is a tool which can extract firmware from various source files.It's written for BCM43xx driver files.


plus im right next to the modem and im not 100%.

any suggestions?

one more thing is possible to update the drivers? and do i do it?


thank you very much for your help

An Fear Aniar

Glad you got it working, I would advise you to post on this thread in the Ubuntu Forums

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=963978

It's a thread dedicated to Broadcom wireless in 8.10

Does your driver show up in System/Administration/Hardware Drivers ?


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