Still no wireless network on my laptop

[jludwig]

On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:54 pm, Johan Lozano wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:33 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:48, Johan Lozano wrote:
> > > hi all,
> > >
> > > i am trying to install a wireless nic on my acer aspire 5024 wlmi
> > > without succes.
> > > is someone succeeded in such an attempt and if so how did you do it?
> > >
> > > i tried with the original nic a broadcom 4318 with ndiswrapper and the
> > > linuxant way. nothing helps.
> >
> > I've used Broadcom 4318 on a Dell Latitude laptop (built-in NIC) with
> > ndiswrapper and it works just fine.
> > Your last email on saturday shows that ndiswrapper works with your
> > Broadcome 4318, ie. you can see the wlan0, all you needed to do was
> > assign an ESSID
>
> there is no way to assign an ESSID to this
> i tried
> iwconfig wlan0 essid mbnet
> iwconfig wlan0 essid "mbnet"
> i tried by the graphical tool
> i inserted manually in the configuration
> file /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:1468:0312.5.conf
> i inserted manually in the configuration file
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
> nothing helps
> no manner to get ESSID assigned
>
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if you have ndiswrapper properly installed try
ndiswrapper -l  # list tje driver and device.
If you don't see your MS driver and the Wifi card you need to configure 
properly.

For posterity;

(As root user)
1) In the directory with the *.inf file 
	nidiswrapper -i
2) scanpci -V  #will give something like 
pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x17fe device 0x2120
Device unknown

3) ndiswrapper -d 17fe:2120 
# I may have this backwards -- but don't think so  --

4) ndiswrapper -m # Writes info to modprobe.conf

5) modprobe ndiswrapper 

Try -- iwlist wlan0 scan -- to see if you can see your network.

Then you can use system-config-network to set up the Wifi card.