Hi,
I have a Dell wireless 1390 in OpenSuse 11 i586, 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae
/sbin/lspci:
0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

I installed the ndiswrapper 1.53 and and used the instruction in Ndiswrapper - openSUSE
It seems that the driver is installed correctly
ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)

but my wireless light is not tured on and when I use scan command for my wireless card it says:
iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

what should I do?

Thanks,

I found the answer! It was in opensuse ndiswrapper help and here:
http://www.swerdna.net.au/linhowtowireless.html

If you receive a message like device (2001:3A03) present (alternate driver <driver name>), then you have a possible conflict with a Linux native driver and will need to add the name of the Linux driver into the blacklist file located at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

I have added that driver to black list and restart my laptop and it was ok!

I am now connected with my wireless!!!

First a warning, I'm not a SuSE user, so you might have to use different paths (locations) - it's up to the SuSE community to help you out there.

But the key is to actually load the ndiswrapper kernel module:
To have it ready at system boot, you'll have to edit the modules file; on my systems, it's in /etc. Open the file with your preferred editor as root and add "ndiswrapper" on a new line at the bottom (it's the safest place to put it there - if there's a long list, you might want to check it for a better place; some other modules might want networking).

M.

chera: Congrats I posted at the same time as you...

M.