Fedora - Wireless not working on DELL Inspiron 8500

kenrowe · 03-10-2006, 04:30 AM

I have followed all the installation instruction for ndiswraaper to install the windows driver for my wireless trumobile card on my Dell Inspiron 8500, all went well and is defined in the network tools, but it will not activate, produces this error error for wireless request set encode (8B2A) Set failed on wlan0; invalid argument.

I am very new at t

his and need some help please

2Gnu · 03-10-2006, 08:42 AM

Is the card turned on? Fn - F2 key sequence.
What encryption is in use?
Try bringing up the card via the command line.
ifconfig wlan0 up
Then post the output if iwconfig wlan0.

kenrowe · 03-10-2006, 01:43 PM

i have it working now do not know how, show what it is connected to via the desktop.. any good gui tools

2Gnu · 03-10-2006, 03:21 PM

KWiFiManager is one. Most desktop environments have some panel applet.

kenrowe · 03-11-2006, 12:32 PM

Thanks for the Help, One last thing I am trying to get the networking to see my Windows PC's and it can you advise what I need to do In fedora.

I Have the network config to DCHP obtain DNS

lestoil · 03-11-2006, 01:40 PM

What version of FC? What wifi driver for what wifi card or chip did you use? Did you have to install firmware to get wifi working? This info will help others with similar problem in FC. Thanx.

2Gnu · 03-11-2006, 07:03 PM

To browse Windows shares over the network, you'll need Samba. Red Hat has excellent documentation, so look there first on how to set it up.

kenrowe · 03-12-2006, 10:15 AM

Hi, I am have fedora 4 - I used bcmwl5a.inf and bcmwl5.sys, and followed these commands

$ tar zxvf ndiswrapper-1.11-rc2.tar.gz
$ cd ndiswrapper-1.11-rc2
$ su
<password>
# make
# make install
# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5a.inf
# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present