Broadcom Wireless Card Issues

Hey there,

Could you run the iwconfig command and copy and paste the output.

The output from running this command:

sudo lshw -C network

would be useful too please ;-)

Chris

Okay, here's the output for iwconfig:

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

eth1 IEEE 802.11b/g ESSID:"Bamfords" (my wireless network, set manually) Nickname: "Broadcom 4306"
              Mode:Managed Frequency=2.462GHz Access Point: 00:18:F8:73:D6:5A
              Bit Rate=11 Mb/s Tx-Power=15 dBm
              RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
              Link Quality=101/101 Signal level=-35dBm Noise level=-66dBm
              Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
              Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

  *-network:0
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 2
       bus info: pci@02:02.0
       logical name: eth1
       version: 03
       serial: 00:90:4b:4d:f0:25
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bcm43xx driverversion=2.6.20-15-generic ip=192.168.2.8 latency=64 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11b/g
       resources: iomemory:d0204000-d0205fff irq:19
  *-network:1
       description: Ethernet interface
       product: RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+
       vendor: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
       physical id: 3
       bus info: pci@02:03.0
       logical name: eth0
       version: 10
       serial: 00:02:3f:6c:51:1d
       size: 10MB/s
       capacity: 100MB/s
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: bus_master cap_list ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
       configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=8139too driverversion=0.9.28 duplex=half ip=192.168.2.9 latency=128 link=no maxlatency=64 mingnt=32 multicast=yes port=MII speed=10MB/s
       resources: ioport:a000-a0ff iomemory:d0208800-d02088ff irq:18

   Hope that helps us both :)

It looks like you're connected mate,

Could you give me the output of ifconfig, and just double check you don't have any access to the internet.

If you still can't connect to the network - I suggest, you go to
administration > network, select the wireless connection, select
properties and fill out the fields manually.

You'll need the ESSID name from the iwconfig output. Enter that
manually, put it on DHCP make sure theres a tick/selection next to the
wireless card.

Restart your computer/router if that doesn't work straight away.

If you still have no joy give me the output of ifconfig.

Chris

Could someone tell me how to see the exact model of Broadcom i have? Sorry, I am quite new to this