Hi guys, I am a newbie to linux........I have Mandrake 10.1 community on my HP PAv zx5000 laptop with a broadcom 94306 for wireless lan. I downloaded ndiswrapper 0.9 version. I have come to the point where ndiswrapper works fine .....my wireless hardware is detected...infact i can ping to my router BUT i cannot do anything else. i tried to set essid (iwconfig) , couldnt set it ..i had to go thru Mandrake control center to set the essid. I tried to put the keys also from "iwconfig" it took it and created the network restricted....then i tried to change the restricted mode to open.......it changed but then thats that....again i come to where i started. Basically whatever i want to change ....I CANNOT change it from the command prompt. I have to go the MCC....but there the problem is of wep keys. I dont know how to put keys there (MCC), there is this space and thats it.....now the network uses 4 keys .....i dont know how to put the keys in MCC. Also i thought the the file "ifcfg-wlan0" must have only root access...and yes it did......hence i changed the permissions.......but of no use....now i can edit "ifcfg-wlan0" but the results are the same......i think the main problem is WEP keys .......or is it the problem of the driver or NDISWrapper??.....but i highly doubt that, because it recognizes the hardware and the light of wlan goes on ....samiliar to the other operating system. I would appreciate if someone helps me .....it seems like i am so close ..yet so far.....oh another thing...if i tamper with "ifcfg-wlan0" it also doesnt changes the configuration.......essid just says off/any....access point shows 00:00:00:00:00:00:....so i really dont know what else i can do to get it working..
thanks for you help
dave

Hi,
I have the laptop model with 802.11g broadcom card. am trying to install ndiswrapper. where do i find the windows driver file. I found bcmwl5.sys under system32\driver and used ndiswrapper 0.7. I followed the usual steps to install ndiswrapper on FC2 linux.
install went fine. ndiswrapper -l only says that bcmwl5.sys is installed. I cannot find anything about wlan0 in the dmesg output after i do modprobe.

I would be great if you can help me out.

THanks

hey ganesh...i got the driver from ndiswrappers website.....well sourceforge.net.....they have a very detailed installation procedure page u can go there and check it out.........i followed those instructions and everything went well untill i cant configure the network.......i didnt like the idea of getting the driver from the cd......also get the id of the chpset....lspci ....so that you can get the exact driver for the card
good luck

First off, if you expect help, learn to write sentences and paragraphs. Your... post... is... essentially... unr...eadab....le.....

Second, why don' t you post the output from when you use iwconfig. The error messages will help us figure out an answer.

Second to hangdog's post can I please recommend that people use the latest ndiswrapper version now that it is approaching stable release. Current version 0.11 is quite a way on from 0.7 that some posters say they are using.
Regards
Chris

snecklifter....the problem is that some versions of NDIS wrapper do not work on certain laptops and chipsets...hence i choose 0.9 version which is not too old, not too new...bugs have been fixed and works great for thechipset which i have on my laptop..
thanks
dave

yea for example .11 refuses to work for me so i use the one that comes with suse 9.1 pro. >=)


c_dave did you edit ifcfg-wlan0, save it... then do :
?? ( you have to do those commands as root...so either log in as root or in console type: "su -" then put in your password )

some times you have to do "route" also.

another thing that helps is adding this to the bottom of the ifcfg-wlan0 config file:

^^ that's not a fix, but it helps later on in the game if you still can't get outside of the network ^^


I'm not familir with mdk as i have not used it.

and yea please break up your posts and post the messages you recieve to further help us help you...not that i am much help, hah.


***** when you do "iwlist wlan0 scanning" please post what it says ******

OK,

1. lspci o/p gives the following info for my card

02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 03)
Subsystem: Hewlett-Packard Company: Unknown device 12f4
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 64, IRQ 193
Memory at e8204000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable)

2. As per c_dave's response I downloaded the "driver3" from the "supported chipsets website" and followed the instructions on the ndiswrapper website.

3. After "modprobe ndiswrapper" I checked the dmesg output, which is as follows:

ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.0 [103c:006b]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ed8, PCI irq 201
Socket status: 30000006
Yenta: CardBus bridge found at 0000:02:04.1 [103c:006b]
Yenta: ISA IRQ mask 0x0ed8, PCI irq 185
Socket status: 30000006
cs: IO port probe 0x0c00-0x0cff: excluding 0xc00-0xc07 0xc10-0xc17 0xc50-0xc57 0xc68-0xc6f 0xcd0-0xcd7
cs: IO port probe 0x0100-0x04ff: excluding 0x200-0x20f 0x378-0x37f 0x408-0x40f 0x4d0-0x4d7
cs: IO port probe 0x0a00-0x0aff: clean.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
lp0: console ready
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device 02307a60(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
divert: not allocating divert_blk for non-ethernet device sit0
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
atiixp: codec read timeout
atiixp: codec read timeout
atiixp: codec read timeout
atiixp: codec read timeout

So, going by the instructions on the ndiswrapper website the system log does not match.

(This is for you Hangdog)
4. When I do "iwconfig" I do not see wlan0. The o/p is under:
lo no wireless extensions.

eth0 no wireless extensions.

sit0 no wireless extensions.

Hope this helps in figuring out the problem/mistake that I am making.

THanks,

Forgot to mention in my earlier mail that I am installing ndiswrapper version 0.11

Thanks

if iwlist doesn't show a wireless device modprobe ndiswrapper isn't loading it...i fixed this by using an earlier version of ndiswrapper...worked like a charm.


another possibility is...you need to go into yast and set up a wireless card..then modprobe ndiswrapper again. see if that works

if yast doesn't show a wireless card then go to "other (undetected)" and click on configure...make it wireless, blah blah...feed it the required info and save/accept everything.

***** is there a file in /etc/sysconfig/network that is like eth1 or wlan0???....open up some of the files...see if they look like config files for wireless cards ( they will have ssid, key's etc... )*****