Re: Need help. Wireless does not work after kernel upgrade

I had ndiswrapper and wireless networking working on my eMachines laptop running Fedora Core 4 with kernel 2.6.15-1.1831_FC4. This afternoon I upgraded to kernel 2.6.17-1.2142_FC4. I upgraded ndiswrapper to ndiswrapper-1.18-1.lvn4 and kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.17-1.2142_FC4-1.18-1.lvn4. lspci shows my wireless network adapter: 00:0c.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) I still see the wireless driver with 'ndiswrapper -l': Installed drivers: netbc564 driver installed, hardware present When I try to bring up the wireless interface, I get [root@proteus log]# ifup eth1 SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory Failed to bring up eth1. In the messages I list below, I see references to "bcm43xx". Was there a native driver developed between kernels 2.6.15 and 2.6.17? Should I be making use of that? How do I do so? If not, how do I rescue my ndiswrapper? Thanks! Andrew Robinson Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Chip ID 0x4306, rev 0x3 Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Number of cores: 5 Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 0: ID 0x800, rev 0x4, vendor 0x4243, enabled Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 1: ID 0x812, rev 0x5, vendor 0x4243, disabled Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 2: ID 0x80d, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, enabled Jul 31 19:47:53 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 3: ID 0x807, rev 0x2, vendor 0x4243, disabled Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Core 4: ID 0x804, rev 0x9, vendor 0x4243, enabled Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Detected PHY: Version: 2, Type 2, Revision 2 Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Detected Radio: ID: 2205017f (Manuf: 17f Ver: 2050 Rev: 2) Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Radio turned off Jul 31 19:47:54 proteus kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.18 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no) Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: set security called Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: .active_key = 0 Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: .level = 1 Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: .enabled = 1 Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: .encrypt = 1 Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: Scanning for networks first. Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: SoftMAC: Associate: failed to initiate scan. Is device up? Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: PHY connected Jul 31 19:47:55 proteus kernel: bcm43xx: Error: Microcode "bcm43xx_microcode5.fw" not available or load failed. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list(a)redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list