ndiswrapper to set up broadcom wireless card...
Hello,
I have an HP Pavilion ZD7000 notebook now running XP Pro & Suse 9.2 . I have configured everything except the wireless radio. I used: ndiswrapper -i myfile.inf & it loaded correctly I then ran ndiswrapper -l and it gave me: bcmwl5 hardware present then I typed in: modprobe ndiswrapper and it gave me no errors. I then did ndiswrapper -m I used iwconfig and wlan0 shows up but on ESSID it says None/Any I tried to set it via iwconfig wlan0 essid myidhere but it didnt do anything. I also did iwlist wlan0 scan but it found nothing. My notebook has a power on/off button for the Wireless lan but when I tried using the button everything froze and I had to restart the computer. I also go into network devices and it does NOT show this in there. Please Help! Ram0135 |
Hello ram1035,
Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org. The reason it isnt working is because you automated you install with the ndiswrapper -m comand before setting any configuration instructions. You have not set the ssid with: Code:
iwconfig wlan0 essid <your ssid name here> Your best course of action would be an uninstall, listed at the ndiswrapper site followed by a reinstall following the instructions to the leter. You could also just try configuring the interface and running the ndiswrapper -m command again. See if that works Regards Chris |
Do "ndiswrapper -m" last after other settings.
Try this link http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/252969, the reply by " OnceInAWhile ". This seems to work on almost all my suse wlan installs. You can use Yast to enter most of the settings, or edit /etc/sysconfig/network/wlan0 file with an editor. |
Hello,
Thanks for all your help guys. I actually fixed it by using LinuxAnt's DriverLoader. Thanks for all of your helpful insight though! Ram0135 |
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