Sorry for my lack of help recently, Uni is taking up way too much of my time, been fun tho :O)
Anyhow, I'm here to try and help out. I'll talk you all through what I done to get it working (If I can still remember). ;O)
First of all, install the Linuxant Drivers as set out by the instructions on the website. If we all follow those instructions, we have a point to start at...so from here:
Everything is set up and should be working according to the Linuxant people but its not, so lets go through the problems:
1) Is the green light on next to the I/O symbol on the card?
If it's not, then quite simply the card is not on. In turn, this means the driver modules aren't loading for it. I had this problem at first but fixed it using Yast Control Center.
a)
- Open up Yast Control Center under root.
- Go to the Network Devices section
- Double click on the network card option, another window should open
This window will detect all your settings/network card devices etc. When its detected them, it will display a screen showing cards that have not been configured (top white section) and cards that have (bottom gray section).
If you're card is in the white bit, go to part c) otherwise, stick around we have work to do :O)
b)
- Click the change... button
- This will show a list of all configured devices - delete each and every one!
- Click finish.
This will remove all the configuration from all your network cards, including the driver modules loaded for them. The Network Card window will then close, but Yast will stay open.
Now we'll re confgure everything...
c)
- Select the network cards option in Yast again.
- This will show the same window as before, however now the white bit at the top will contain all cards and the bottom gray bit will say "Nothing is Configured"
- Also, in the top window is the "Belkin Network Controller" (yay!)
- Select that with the mouse and click on configure...
All the setting here are related to the pcmcia card. These are different depending on your network, so make sure you get them right. Network device is the name of the device, remember it but dont worry about it. My setup method is DHCP (the router on my network gives out IP addresses so I dont need to worry about them). Host name and name server I have set up to the name of my laptop (the computer with the 54g card in) with domain set to my windows workgroup (that bit isnt important). I've left routing completly empty! :O)
Now for the important bit...
Hardware details will tell you what driver you are using. Mine says that my type is a pcmcia card (yay) and the most important bit, the kernel module name: "bcmwl5driverloader". Before this was set to nothing, which is why it wasnt working. Everything else on this page is blank, other than for a tick in the wireless device box.
Tick that box and click on wireless settings. Set the mode to Managed. Set the ESSID to whatever name you have given to the wireless network, mine is "TheTwoTowers" tehe!
Everything else is left blank. This is because I dont use anything else. I've not set up WEP because I cant be bothered, instead I MAC filter connection (meaning that if ur MAC address isnt on the router list, you're not coming in! hehe!). Click ok on the next two screens to get back to "network address setup" and click Next.
In the grey box at the bottom, the Belkin Network controller should now be there, because its configured :O) Now click finish.
There we go, all done :O) Restart before u try anything :O)
How to check if ur working? Try the following:
iwconfig
-or-
http://localhost:18020/
-or-
www.google.com :O)
d) e) f) g) ... z)For this step, you simply reply o my post telling me what went wrong :O) Then I say, read this FAQ:
https://www.linuxant.com/driverloader/wlan/faq.php#2 from the Linuxant site. This contains a shed load of ways to check ur connection, and a few known problems/solutions.
Then u say but...
And then I say email me (jon.black@hotmail.com) the output of iwconfig and I'll email you back... :O)
A Potential Solution
Important!!! opensource driver for broadcom based wireless card (free)
