Cannot detect WLAN in linux

[DJ_Evergreen]

Hey all you linux gurus,

I'm running the Auditor Live CD and it's not able to detect my WLAN. It is able to detect my LAN NIC. Any ideas?

My WLAN is "Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN"
And my LAN is a "Realtek RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC"

I'm not that savy with linux so any help is appreciated.

[GrayFox]

What distro is this ?.

[DJ_Evergreen]

hmm not quite sure. It's "auditor-200605-02-ipw2100" if that helps any.

[kryyst]

If it's a live distro and it doesn't detect it there is nothing you can do as you can't really add anything to the live distro. Your options are try a different live linux version like Ubuntu or to actually install linux and then you can update the drivers required for that WLAN card.

[drasnor]

You may have the appropriate kernel module but not the corresponding firmware. Broadcom did not release Linux drivers for their WLAN chipsets. More information at http://bcm43xx.berlios.de/

Try a better-supported NIC. Atheros-based cards usually work.

-drasnor :fold: