I have two questions. The first is about wireless drivers and ndiswrapper.

I went through and installed ndiswrapper, found the driver for my broadcom wireless card on my windows partition, did ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf and then ndiswrapper -l showed me the driver and that it was installed and the hardware was present.

Then, I went to yast, added a wireless card to load from module ndiswrapper with all the default settings.

I cannot see the card in network tools. Thus, I cannot connect. I think my module does not load. I tried ndiswrapper -m and everything went ok, but still I don't think the module loaded? This is the first time I am trying wireless on linux so I'm having issues. Any help would be appreciated.


Second question: With the ATI drivers, on a laptop, my brightness keys don't work anymore. I was able to change screen brightness before I put in the drivers, but now I am not. Is this something that can be fixed? I know a lot of people are having this same issue. Also, can I enable compiz on here or will the ATI card and drivers mess my whole suse installation up?

Thanks!

Any ideas are welcome even if they may sound stupid because I don't have any. I'm willing to try anything that would help.

Bump back to the top with hope for a solution.

What does:

# ifup wlan0

give you?

I have a Compaq Presario 2195US with broadcom 4xxx wireless built in. The brightness worked straight out of the install, as well as suspend to disk and battery meter. Wireless took a little more effort, I installed ndiswrapper as you described. Reboot. See if you can bring up the network with the above command. Also make sure you have installed your card through Yast>Network Devices>Network Card. Then run:

# dhclient

and try to pull up a web page.

Hope this helps.

ifup wlan0 gives me: "Interface wlan0 is not available."

How do I add this interface? I tried uninstalling ndiswrapper with YAST and then reinstalling. Reinstalled the driver, and when I did ndiswrapper -m it said "modprobe config already contains alias directive"

I checked my modprobe.conf.local and it's empty. In modprobe.conf there is nothing about wlan0

Have you loaded the module with modprobe ndiswrapper? What did dmesg say when you did that?

modprobe ndiswrapper says: "FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found."

If you installed ndiswrapper from the dvd check you have the correct version for the kernel you are running, I think there were 2 or 3 different versions. Other than that try this excellent howto http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/lin...fo10-32bit.php

I installed from packman but I am following some instructions i found while googling on this page: http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/lin...pperinfo10.php

I will let you know if this works. I am sure I had the ndiswrapper for my source because the versions were the same... I am about to compile it from scratch so maybe that will fix some stuff.

I did the same when I first tried installing ndiswrapper, uname -a will show you running kernel and the ndiswrapper version should have same suffix ie. kmp-default, kmp-smp, kmp-xen. Anyway that guide is pretty good and also helps avoid the problems with networkmanager.

Yeah. SOLVED!!! That guide helped a lot. Now I see wlan0 and it lists my Wireless card. I'm kind of happy. It only took like a week to fix but hey, I got it Thanks all for the help.