hello, i have recently installed slackware 10.2 on my laptop which has an inbuilt Broadcom 4318. ive used ndiswrapper to get the os to see my card, now KWifi is seeing my adapter but can never find my network...

when i start my laptop i run the following commands

"Ndiswrapper -l

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present

depmod -a
modprobe ndiswrapper
iwconfig
iwconfig wlan0 freq 10
iwconfig wlan0 nick RaZoR
iwconfig wlan0 essid BTVOYAGER-42
iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results


ive been working on this for a few weeks now and its really bugging me, ive got it to work on the net once so i no that is possible for it to connect but i must be forgetting a vital command or something...

any help will be much apprieciated...

Thx

ive got the same chip on my laptop. worked twice for some reason and hasnt worked since. so I went out and bought a pc-card that has real linux support, no problems since...broadcom thanx but no thanx!

con, which card is it? I'm in the same situation and wouldnt mind buying an extra card

it is a homeline hlw-pcc200 with realtek chip. there is a open source project that make drivers for the chip, rtl-8180 or something like that.

A few tips....

You really don't need to run depmod every time. In fact I've never needed to run it. Also, iwlist really doesn't do anything other than show you access points in range, and even then it doesn't show those with the SSID broadcast turned off.

So, if you set the essid, and req, you should be able to see that your card has associated with the access point by the output of iwconfig. By the way, it looks as if you are not using WEP or WPA, if that is true then you're fine so far, but if you are using them, you need to configure your card with the key.

Anyway, once you have the card configured, you need to request an IP address from your router. You do that with the dhcpcd wlan0 command. That should be the final step to get you up and running.