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bcmwl5 wifi driver causes eth0 port to not be recognized

Asked by Wade Holen

Info: Dell inspiron e1505 laptop. Latest ubuntu version as of july 2011. Wifi card is a Minicard wlan 1390. also have eth0 port

Problem: driver needed to activate wifi card is bcmwl5.....when i install the driver and restart wlan0 works fine but the eth0 is not recognized in terminal with the 'ifconfig' or 'iwlist scanning' commands. I can get eth0 to work by uninstalling the driver and restarting.

However i need both connections to work at same time so i can share the network with my desktop. WHAT DO I DO?

I have tried: restarting, reinstallin OS, uninstalling and reinstalling drivers, i tried Linux mint...had same problem, i have tried different network managers.... but still no luck

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Can you give the output of:

sudo lshw -C network; cat /etc/lsb-release; rfkill list

Thanks

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Wade Holen (holenwade) said : 		#2

wade@wade-MM061 ~ $ sudo lshw -C network; cat /etc/lsb-release; rfkill list
[sudo] password for wade:
PCI (sysfs)

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

Give it time, the PCI bus is slow

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Wade Holen (holenwade) said : 		#4

oops i copied to soon therre was more....

wade@wade-MM061 ~ $ sudo lshw -C network; cat /etc/lsb-release; rfkill list
[sudo] password for wade:
  *-network
       description: Wireless interface
       product: BCM4311 802.11b/g WLAN
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:0b:00.0
       logical name: wlan0
       version: 01
       serial: 00:1a:92:7f:5d:57
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.56+Broadcom,10/12/2006, 4.100. ip=192.168.1.100 latency=0 link=yes multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g
       resources: irq:16 memory:efdfc000-efdfffff
  *-network UNCLAIMED
       description: Ethernet controller
       product: BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
       vendor: Broadcom Corporation
       physical id: 0
       bus info: pci@0000:03:00.0
       version: 02
       width: 32 bits
       clock: 33MHz
       capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
       configuration: latency=64
       resources: memory:ef9fe000-ef9fffff
DISTRIB_ID=LinuxMint
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11
DISTRIB_CODENAME=katya
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Linux Mint 11 Katya"
0: dell-wifi: Wireless LAN
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no
1: dell-bluetooth: Bluetooth
 Soft blocked: no
 Hard blocked: no

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Wade Holen (holenwade) said : 		#5

as u can c im actually on linux right now but same problem is on ubuntu

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#6

Linux Mint isn't supported here or in any of the Ubuntu channels. You are using Mint which is supported here:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/

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Wade Holen (holenwade) said : 		#7

wow.... mint hater

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#8

No, just that Mint isn't supported in any of the Ubuntu methods. You aren't using Ubuntu so you have simply posted in the wrong place. I never said I hated mint at any point.

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Wade Holen (holenwade) said : 		#9

ok well i was kinda joking anyway. so i posted it in linux forum now.....but i swear it is the exact same problem. and i have dual boot right now linux and ubuntu. exact same thing happens in both

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Wade Holen (holenwade) said : 		#10

i mean linux mint when i say linux btw... iknow both are linux!