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
