Hello

I have an Acer Extensa 5220 notebook with the above integrated wlan card. The card is supported via the bcm43xx kernel module, however I get frequently disdonnected from the AP when using it with wpa_supplicant.

With ndiswrapper and the proper windows driver I'm not able to set the essid. I don't get any error messages from iwconfig, but setting the essid with has no effect.
shows several APs, so the card basically works with ndiswrapper. On my AP the essid is hidden, iwlist only sees it when the essid is broadcasted (only when using ndiswrapper; with the bcm43xx module, the MAC of my AP is listed, with essid as "hidden").

I'm using the latest versions of the required programs and to my knowledge everything is installed properly. The correct firmware for the card is also in place. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated, also for making the card work properly (without disconnections) with the bcm43xx kernel module.

I tried to get my wireless network adapter working by following the Ubuntu forum instructions, but that did not work. I had to write my own "wpa-connect" script. I posted the script and installation instructions here:

wpa-connect script

You should probably also look at the information here:

b43 drivers

My connection was still a little flakey until I moved my access point closer to the center of the house. Problems I was having with the wireless connection on my Fedora Core 4 based MythTV box also improved.

This was not just a Linux problem, because I was having problems with two Windows XP based machines that were also trying to connect to the same AP.