Hi,

I have just installed Mandriva Linux 2006 on my machine, and everything went well, apart from one thing - configuring the
wireless network.

I am trying to recieve a wireless signal from a Windows computer downstairs.

When I look at the hardware installed through the contol center, see two things under 'Ethernetcard':

BCM94306 802.11g NIC
Ethernet Controller

So it has detected my card. The only problem is - the driver doesn't seem to be working.

I go back to the Linux Control Center, and click on 'Network & Internet'. Then I click 'Set Up A New Network Interface'.

The screen comes up asking me what I want to choose, and I say 'Wireless Connection'.

Now the drivers, I can either 'Manually Load a Driver' or 'Use a Windows Driver (with ndiswrapper). I choose the Windows
one, and insert my Windows Driver Disc. A screen comes up asking me to 'Select the Windows Driver (.inf file), so I go into
the Driver folder on the disc and there are three files:

bcm43xx.cat
bcmwl5.inf
bcmwl5.sys

When I try the bcmwl5.inf one, I get this error:

Unable to install the bcmwl5 ndiswrapper Driver!

And the other two give this one:

No device supporting the (bcmwl5.sys/bcm43xx.cat) ndiswrapper driver is present!

So I don't really know where to go from here. If anyone can help I would be grateful.

Cheers,

Joe

EDIT: I just tried this with a Netgear WG111T USB reciever and got the same errors...

Have you tried using the command line instead of the gui config tools. There are good tips on the ndiswrapper wiki.

Hi,

I think I've tried it through the command line, but I probably did it wrong. I seem to remember getting an error saying the driver was incompatible...

I will have a look at the Wiki and see if that gets me any further.

Cheers,

Joe

EDIT: Yeah, I'm getting it again:

Incompatible Architecture for /home/joe/Drivers/bcmwl5.sys

Any ideas?

Did you ever get this to work? Can you give a newbie some direction please?
Cheers

No mate I didn't I sort of gave up for a bit. I will try again when I have time, if I get it working I will update this thread.

Cheers,

Joe