wlan belkin 54g pcmcia (f5d7010) broadcom airforce chipset + linuxant driverloader
i got an ibm thinkpad 240x and linux suse 8.2 on it!
my wlan device is an belkin 54g pcmcia (F5D7010) i downloaded the linuxant driverloader 1.25 from www linuxant com i installed the rpm package as i is thought by their howto install the problem is: that the lan seems to work because if i set the ESSID on my laptop to "linux-wlan" i can see them on my windows system but i cannot see any wlan on my laptop and therefore i cannot connect to any other pc i also cannot ping anyone if i type "iwconfig" it says: lo no wireless extension sit0 no wireless extension eth0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"" Nickname:"Linux-Ibm-wlan" Mode:Ad-Hoc Bit Rate=54Mb/s Tx-Power=10 dBm RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off Encryption key:XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XXXX-XX Power Managment:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon sometimes is tells me the real Essid i had entered (Wlan-home) if i type iwlist scanning then it shows: lo Interface doesn`t support scanning: Operation not supported sit0 Interface doesn`t support scanning: Invalid argument eth0 Scan completed: Cell 01 - Address: AE:70:76:84:EE:0B (which is the essid of my windows computer - i think) Essid:"Wlan-home" Mode:Auto Frequency:2,462Ghz Quality1/1 Signal level:-73 dBm Noise level: -200 dBm Encryption key:on Bit Rate 1Mb/s Bit Rate 2Mb/s .... Bit Rate 54Mb/s and if i type iwlist ap it shows: lo Interface doesnt have a list of Access Points sit0 Interface doesnt have a list of Access Points eth0 Access Points in range: AE:70:76:84:EE:0B : Quality:1/1 Signal level:-73dbm noise level:-200 dbm (updated) if i type dldrconfig --info it says: Wireless interface name: eth0 MAC address : 00:30:BD:93:40:A4 Device instance: PCI-01:00.0-14e4:4320:1799:7010 device driver:bcmwl5 licence owner:XXX@XX.XX Licence key : none Licence status: INVALID i downloaded your driveloader 3 days ago but licence status is invalid i thought the driverloader will work up to 30 days!???? what can i do if i can get this wlan to work i will buy this driverloader but i would like to test it bevore otherwise i will format my laptop and put windows back on it! if there is anyone who can help me i would be very happy if there is anybody out there who can help me and need more information i will give you as soon as possible |
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