I have Mandrake 10.2 and I'm trying to configure my BCM94306 wifi card. I was able to use ndiswrapper and it has found it correctly but when I do a scan it doesn't pick up any wap's. I don't know what else to do. I know my router is setup correctly and is allowing my other computer to sign on with windows.

ndiswrapper says the device is installed.
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

I do an ip addr and see that it appears to be working correctly.
#ip addr
5: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:90:4b:8c:f7:ca brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 127.255.255.255/8 brd 127.255.255.255 scope host wlan0:9
inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe8c:f7ca/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever


When I do a scan all I get is this but it's not a wap it's just another computer in my apartment complex broadcasting a signal and not a router. Is their something else I need to configure to pick up my router and get on my network ?

# iwlist wlan0 scanning
wlan0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: AA2:67:55:59:98
ESSID:"À%ý·"
Protocol:IEEE 802.11b
Mode:Ad-Hoc
Frequency:2.457 GHz (Channel 10)
Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
Encryption keyff
Bit Rate:1 Mb/s
Bit Rate:2 Mb/s
Bit Rate:5.5 Mb/s
Bit Rate:6 Mb/s
Bit Rate:9 Mb/s
Bit Rate:11 Mb/s
Bit Rate:12 Mb/s
Bit Rate:18 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:atim=0

This is the configuration I have now for wlan0
#iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"À%ý·" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Auto Frequency:2.457 GHz Access Point: AA2:67:55:59:98
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:16 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption keyff
Power Management max timeout:0us mode:All packets received
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-57 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


Any help or ideas would be great.
thanks

A couple things you may have missed. "iwconfig" is for configuring your wireless settings that are unique to wireless networking. Once that's set up properly, you bring wlan0 up with ifconfig.

> ifconfig wlan0 up

Ifconfig would be used to set up a static ip, or allow you to use the dhcp capabilities that your router probably has. Ifconfig can also be used for other things, for instance, I use that instead of ip addr for displaying interface information..

So basically check out ifconfig and dhcpcd (the dhcp client). You may also need to look into the route command to set your router up as your internet gateway. Once you figure out what you need to do, put it in a script and you can execute it as a command or at startup.

And you may want to look into the encryption, unless you live close to me when my internet goes down.

Example

I checked out the configurations on the router and everything is exactly the same setup. I changed it using iwconfig I have the frequency the same, the mode, RTS, Fragment thr. ESSID is just SSID right or WAP name ?

If I run ifconfig wlan0 192.168.0.10 that would setup the address with as a static ip correct? and it wouldn't use the dchp. I might look into that instead of the dchp. Can you manually assign it to a router if it can't find it when doing iwlist wlan0 scanning ?

huh I just did a restart and it found all the wap's in the area. Weird but it seems to be working good now. Thanks I guess for the help lol.