Finding PCI ID in Ndiswrapper Wiki List

merchtemeagle · 04-13-2006, 01:08 PM

I already asked this question on the ndiswrapper-general mailing list, but their doesn't seem to be much activity there.

I have an Acer Aspire WLMi 3003 with Kubuntu 5.10 installed. I have no
wireless interface out of the box, so I'm trying to use ndiswrapper which I
installed through apt-get. (So the version of ndiswrapper is 1.1-4).
This is what the Wiki Installation guide tells me to do:

"Important: Do NOT use drivers on your CD. They may work, but you may
experience kernel crashes etc., if the driver on your CD has not been
tested.
Instead, you need to download appropriate Windows XP driver for your card
from the Wiki entry List. To identify the driver that you need, first
identify the card you have with 'lspci' and note the first column such as
0000:00:0c.0 and then find out the PCI ID of the card that with 'lspci -n'
corresponding to the first column of 'lspci' output.
The PCI ID is third column or fourth in some distributions and of the form
'104c:8400'. Now you need to get the Windows driver for this chipset. In the
List, find out an entry for the same PCI ID and download the driver
corresponding to it."

#lspci
0000:00:0b.0 Network Controller: Broadcom Corporation: Unknown device 4318
(rev 02)

#lspci -n
0000:00:0b.0 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)

This PCI ID is found in the List multiple times, for different laptop
models, but not for mine. I took this one:

Notebook: Acer Aspire 3023WLMi

* Kernel 2.6.12 vanilla RPM for Fedora Core 4
* Chipset: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 802.11/g Wireless LAN
* pciid: 14e4:4318
* Driver: ndiswrapper v1.3rc1 with bcmwl5a.inf or bcmwl5.inf (either
works) ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/note...iver/(Broadcom,
12/22/2004,
v3.100.46.0)

Now, my wireless still doesn't work but "#ndiswrapper -l" gives me:
"Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present"

Does this mean the driver is OK, but there still is another problem, or does
it mean I should pick another driver?

rshaw · 04-13-2006, 01:23 PM

"bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present"

it's installed properly.

did you "modprobe ndiswrapper"

merchtemeagle · 04-13-2006, 05:26 PM

I can only test my wireless card at university. Now I've found a page that I should have read before I started fiddling on this, namely the instructions for my university's wireless network.
I'll post more in this thread tomorrow or next week.
Thanks already.

PS: Since you're from the US, which one is correct: "I can only test my card..." or "I can test my card only..." ?

merchtemeagle · 04-14-2006, 12:18 PM

I followed http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation .

Code:

$ modprobe ndiswrapper
$ iwconfig
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-67 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

$ iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     Scan completed :
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:50:DA:01:24:C6
                    ESSID:"IG-AirLines"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.422 GHz (Channel 3)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-69 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:off
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:12:17:D7:96:08
                    ESSID:"IG-intern"
                    Protocol:IEEE 802.11g
                    Mode:Managed
                    Frequency:2.452 GHz (Channel 9)
                    Quality:0/100  Signal level:-78 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
                    Encryption key:on
                    Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:24 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:36 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
                    Bit Rate:48 Mb/s
                    Extra:bcn_int=100
                    Extra:atim=0
                    Extra:wpa_ie=dd160050f20101000050f20201000050f20201000050f202

$ iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
$ iwconfig wlan0 essid IG-Airlines
$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-67 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

So, ESSID is not set but still has "off/any" as value.
This is the page with instructions of the wireless network at the computer rooms: http://ig-airlines.rave.org/englindex.html

Anyone that can point me towards a solution?

merchtemeagle · 04-18-2006, 02:37 PM

Hmm, seems like I ask many hard questions nowadays.