Hello All,
I sort of assumed you all might use a solution like ndiswrapper for your drivers so here is my issue: (Broadcom bcm4318 card; FC5)
One night I let my power run out (by accident) and the laptop shut itself off. When I came back on, The wlan0 (the one that did work) wouldnt activate and the 'dhclient wlan0' (that I had to run before to use the net) would take forever to execute.
When the net was working, In the Add New Network Connection (under Wireless) I would see 'ndiswrapper(wlan0)' and the 'Other Card' as options. NOW, I see the full card name (Broadcom Copr. Air Force 54g......) and the Other Card as options.
So something went wrong when the laptop ran out of power.
There is an alias for ndiswrapper in modprobe.conf, and the built-in driver (I dont want it active; it conflicts with ndiswrapper) is blacklisted in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist with 'blacklist bcm43xx'
And yet after running ndiswrapper -l and seeing it says me driver is 'install and the hardware present', still nothing.
Ive tried running 'lsmod |grep -i bcm' with no output, ndiswrapper is loaded instead of bcm43xx in lsmod, and iwpriv wlan0 ndis_reset didnt help.
Any Help is Very Much APpriciated!
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