Erie:
I tried removing both and testing each individually and still wireless did not work.

iwconfig says

root@mepis1:/home/pedro# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.

eth1 no wireless extensions.

eth1 is my ethernet card (Ceni clearly identifies it as such)

thanks

I''m lost here. I don't know what to tell you next???

Thanks for the help. I'll try the new release anti is uploading. That should point to a kernel problem or a box problem.

Hello:
I finally was able to solve this problem. Here's my solution.

I had installed a Debian kernel (using smxi) but wireless still was not working. I had followed the instructions on how to get Broadcom cards to work using the wl driver with my Mepis kernel, but that did not work either.

Since I figured that maybe too many drivers were conflicting or messing up in the MEPIS kernel, I did the wl driver build under Debian and installed it. Ceni worked right away!!

the driver (and instructions on how to build it, etc) are at:


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I'm happy that I was able to figure this out (but spent a LOT of time on it). I only have a question. Since at the end of the instructions for the driver, I do depmod and then modprobe wl, do I have to do that everytime I boot the Debian kernel now or will be automatically loaded?

thanks

Pedro

You can add it to /etc/modules and it will be loaded each time you boot. If you still have the other kernels try it there. You can put the other drivers you don't want loaded in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.

Thanks erie.

I'll try this tonight at home.

Erie,
worked like a charm. You're the man!!

thanks