Hi,
This is regarding my HP Pavilion ze2000 laptop with a built-in Broadcom 4318 (802.11b/g) wireless adapter. I finally got ndiswrapper installed correctly, and the bcmwl5a.inf driver loaded successfully.
However, I still can't seem to get online using the wireless card. I believe I have set everything correctly using iwconfig, and the wireless card (wlan0) does successfully get an IP address from my router when I call dhclient wlan0. I turned off WEP on the router thinking that was the problem but it was not. Everything seems to be working properly except that I can't for the life of me get any internet connection (Firefox times out, doing a ping or traceroute fails).
I'm getting desperate to get this wireless network working, as otherwise I'll be forced to use Windows XP a lot on this laptop -- which I'd like to avoid. Any ideas? Anything in particular I should try doing?
If it helps, here is the output of ifconfig, iwconfig, route, dhclient:
Code:
[root@localhost xxx]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:C0:9F:AC:07:D2
inet6 addr: fe80::2c0:9fff:feac:7d2/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:378 (378.0 b)
Interrupt:18 Base address:0x8000
eth1 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-C0-9F-00-00-5C-24-71-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:79006 (77.1 Kb) TX bytes:79006 (77.1 Kb)
sit0 Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
inet6 addr: ::127.0.0.1/96 Scope:Unknown
UP RUNNING NOARP MTU:1480 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:4B:F5:53:FD
inet addr:192.168.7.105 Bcast:192.168.7.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::290:4bff:fef5:53fd/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:974 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:63347 (61.8 Kb) TX bytes:2772 (2.7 Kb)
Memory:d0204000-d0205fff
Code:
[root@localhost xxx]# iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
eth1 no wireless extensions.
Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of Wireless Extension,
but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver features
may not be available...
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"home" Nickname:"localhost"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.442 GHz Access Point: 00:0F:66:46:5C:B6
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:off
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-50 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
sit0 no wireless extensions.
Code:
[root@localhost xxx]# route
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
192.168.7.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 10 0 0 wlan0
default 192.168.7.7 0.0.0.0 UG 10 0 0 wlan0
Code:
[root@localhost xxx]# dhclient wlan0
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.2
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:f5:53:fd
Sending on LPF/wlan0/00:90:4b:f5:53:fd
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPREQUEST on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK from 192.168.7.7
bound to 192.168.7.105 -- renewal in 41323 seconds.
Thanks a lot for any help,