Re: Still no wireless network on my laptop

From: Josh Coffman (josh_coffman_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 08/16/05

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    --- Johan Lozano <johan.lozano@tiscali.be> 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.
    > today i bought a new nic a d-link dwl-g650 and tried
    > also with
    > ndiswrapper as well as with the linuxant manner,
    > again without success.
    > finally i followed the madwafi method and even that
    > was not succesfull.
    >
    > is there anybody who can help me out here?
    >

    I'm just a noob, but I can tell you what worked for
    me.
    I was able to get the internal Broadcom (4309
    802.11b/g) working using ndiswrapper.

    I believe the livna repos has an rpm for ndiswrapper,
    but I installed from source.

    Make sure you have the windows driver files for the
    card. If not, they are available online.
    Also, make sure the internal card is enabled.
    My laptop has a button to turn it on/off. I got a
    little frustrated one day with getting the wifi
    working before I realized it was turned off.

    Oh, and make sure wireless-tools are installed; comes
    with FC4.

    First download the source from
    http://ndiswrapper.sf.net
    Then I untarred it; something like tar -xvf ndisw*.gz
    Then, I "su -" to be root.
    Then cd'd into the directory with the ndiswrapper
    files.
    Then I did this:
    #> make
    #> make install
    #> ndiswrapper -l
    [tells you if you have a driver loaded and if it's
    working]
    #> ndiswrapper -i /path_to_driver/bcmwlXXX.inf
    #> ndiswrapper -l
    [Should now say driver is loaded and hardware is
    present]
    #> ndiswrapper -m [create the info file for modprobe]
    #> modprobe ndiswrapper

    Assuming there were no errors, the card is on, and you
    installed the right windows driver, it should now be
    working.

    you can now use 'iwlist wlan0 scan' to scan for
    networks. 'iwconfig wlan0' will tell you your wireless
    settings. 'dhclient wlan0' will connect to the first
    available open network.

    same should work for the external card.

    hope this helps.

                    
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