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Old 06-04-2008, 01:36 PM   #1
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Dell Inspiron 1501 w/ PCLinuxOS 2008 minime Wireless Problems


Hi, everyone!

I have the Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN Mini-PCI Card from Broadcom (supposedly uses the bcmwl5 driver). Going through the GUI config for wireless did notwork - resulted in error "Cannot find ndiswrapper interface".

I got a bit further going the command line route, but wireless is still not working. The card does show up in hardware configuration.

'iwconfig' prints

Code:
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"localhost"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: Not-Associated
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:32 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:0  Signal level:0  Noise level:0
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0
Note, ESSID. If I run 'iwconfig wlan0 essid MyWLAN' and run 'iwconfig' again, the ESSID does not change.

If I run 'ifconfig wlan0 up', no errors or messages are generated, but the connection is not there. It is like the card is off - no wireless signals are picked up.

'iwlist wlan0 scan' returns 'no scan results'

In ubuntu, this card was working after I followed a guide (a while back) and installed the driver through ndiswrapper.

'ndiswrapper -l' returns

Code:
airplus : driver installed
bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)
bcmwl5a : driver installed
lsbcmnds6 : driver installed
lstinds : driver installed
mrv8k51 : driver installed
net8185 : driver installed
netr33x : driver installed
prismnic : driver installed
rt2500 : driver installed
rt73 : driver installed
sis163u : driver installed
wlannic : driver installed
wlanuig : driver installed
wlipnds : driver installed
'ssb' is used by 'b44' which is needed for the wired connection, so to avoid any conflict I used 'rmmod b44' and 'rmmod ssb' trying to get wireless to work, but no success.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Thank you in advance!

Victor
 
Old 06-05-2008, 07:56 AM   #2
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This is the guide I followed to get my wireless working with minime: http://www.pclosmag.com/html/Issues/200712/page03.html
 
Old 06-06-2008, 09:36 AM   #3
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Thank you for the guide - I'll try it out over the weekend and will get back with results.

Victor
 
  


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