I am trying to install and configure wireless on my laptop, my laptop has a bcm4310 card in it, i have tried ndiswrapper and managed to install the drivers for it, when i use ndiswrapper -l to list the drivers installed it says:
root@matt-laptop:~# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
root@matt-laptop:~#

i have downloaded a program called wifi radar, to find the wireless networks, and whenever i run the gui from the command line this happens:

root@matt-laptop:~# wifi-radar
eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

and while im running wifi radar it cannot connect to the wireless network.


Can anyone please help me. i need this to work asap

which desktop do you use? kde and gnome both come with network admin tools to admin wireless networks that use to work fine.

Usually you do not need extra application to see the wireless networks, all necessary files should be installed. If GUI network-admin is not enough, you can try iwconfig to configure interface and iwlist to see the networks in range (see appropriate man pages).

At the CLI, type:

# iwlist scan

What is the output?

at the cli when i type in iwlist scan it says:

root@matt-laptop:~# iwlist scan
lo Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

sit0 Interface doesn't support scanning.

eth1 Interface doesn't support scanning : No such device

Here is a link you should look at:

http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/153/213/

Read it all of the way through before you start because there are some addendums pertaining to getting fwcutter and downloading the appropriate drivers. Also make sure you have wireless-tools package installed, and if you are using wpa or wpa2 for security, you will need to install the wpa_supplicant package as well.

Finally, network-manager didn't work for me, so once I followed the link I posted above, I modified my /etc/network/interfaces with the appropriate info, and then ifup eth2 (unusual, but the wireless adapter on my Etch laptop).

Wifi Radar is a great program once you get your wireless up and running. I use it when I have my laptop away from home.

Hope this helps.