Wireless Issues

[Steedie]

Hey guys

Sorry for another thread

I just can't connect using my wireless card at all, it's driving me mad.

I've downloaded ndiswrapper, installed it using a tutorial and ran everything correctly, ndiswrapper shows that both the driver and hardware is present

So I went into Network Config and it found my wireless card in there to which I installed. But now, it comes up with the error message

"SIOCSIFFLAGS: file or directory not found"

I looked into this problem and found it is due to missing firmware, which I downloaded from the prism54 site which was recommended. Got the firmware, put it in the folder /etc/firmware first, same problem, then /lib/firmware and again same problem

This is really getting to me now as I really wanna get my Linux PC online but Just no joy

ifconfig wlan0 up is the command that gives the SIOCSIFFLAGS error by the way

Also, it's not conflicting IRQ address's either which is the other problem associated with that error as I ran a command to check IRQ addresses and thats all ok

If anyone can help you will be considered Linux gods lol

 

[Steedie]

Ok I've installed the drivers and firmware using b43xx-fwcutter

But now in network config, it's recognised as the correct device and exact model but is recognised as eth2 rather than a wireless device, any ideas how to correct that?

 

[Steedie]

Sorry its Fedora 8

And I cant use it as it is using the same config setup screen as an ethernet connection so I have no way of entering any wireless details like my SSID or WEP Key