I just got a Belkin 54g Wireless Desktop Network Card (F5D7000) Rev 03 PCI card, the
ndiswrapper
website say that this card should work. I configured the card in the way explained in the ubuntu wiki. I can modprobe, and get the card up and running as wlan0, but I can't change essid with iwconfig, and it doesn't give a error.

If I scan the network I get
sudo iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results

I'm trying to connect to a wireless router, SSID Broardcast is on, and I can connect to the network just fin from my Powerbook. I don't use any web-encryption (yet).

KWiFiManager says that the device is connected and the signal is fine but
Connected to network: any
Access point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Local IP: unavailable

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

- Sune Simonsen

Yiiiiha I made this work by changing
the line "RadioState|1" to "RadioState|0"
in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/4E4:4320.conf

- Sune Simonsen

Can you point me to the driver you are using?? I am having the same problem. I think it is the driver I am using. If you could send me a link to where you got your driver it would be awesome. ( I have changed that setting but it doesn't work.)

Thank you!

I use the following driver: bcmwl5a

I can see that I've made a typo above, the file that you
should change the RadioState in is:

find the line "RadioState|1" and change it to "RadioState|0"
in /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5a/14E4:4320.conf

The netcard is working just fine with 128 bit encryption,
and I've had no problems with it since I've installed it.

Hope this helps, else just ask me again.

- Sune Simonsen

Do you have a copy of the driver that I can use. I am having the same problem but I am using bcmwl5 not bcmwl5a. Did you download the driver or get it from the disk?

The driver from the disk works perfect.
Make sure you copy to hard disk both bcml5a.ini AND .sys for it to work.
Should work fine then.

if you don't have dhcpcd, try dhclient.

That is set correctly on mine, but I still have the same problem. Could you e-mail me the driver files?? the ones I have don't seem to work. I am not sure why your driver files are bcmwl5a.XXX and mine are bcmwl5.XXX I don't want to go out and buy a new wireless card but I think that might be what I will have to do if this doesn't work. What kernel and distro are you running??

Just double check you are taking the correct steps here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...p/Installation
Especially the bit where you specify getting an IP address and so on.

Get the driver from here:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...dex.php/List#B

And you don't have to go out and buy a new wireless card, the Belkin works fine.

Make sure you do all that as proper root with "su -"
I had it working with Fedora Core 4 2.6.13 custom kernel, and now I have it working on Suse 10.0 with 2.6.13-15-default using ndiswrapper that came with the DVD.

Keep at it, you'll get there eventually.

From the link for the drivers I found a copy of the drivers for this card that work very well. I am up and running and sending this from my Mandriva box!!!! You have been so much help!! Thank you very very very very much!!