Re: Second go at getting Wireless to work in SuSe and close to giving up.

From: Thomas Davie (tdavie_at_rediffmail.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 05:39:37 GMT

Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> wrote in
news:20050203214245.11038999@efreet.linux:
>
> Yes, broadcom is still a problem, I believe. Have you had no luck in
> googling for this? There are probably still some steps you have to
> take even though ndiswrapper is loaded (it's not automatic, after
> all).
>
> I'm fairly new to wireless on SUSE and it took me several days to get
> my Netgear WG311 to work under 9.1 -- after installing 9.2, all I had
> to do was the 'Download firmware...' under YOU.

I did find a reference which I printed out stating that my specific
wireless card was supported in Ndiswrapper, and I followed those
instructions to a T, but no luck.

This is the reference

http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/Suse%20Professional%
209.2

And, under this heading
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/List

here is the entry for my card

Card: Dell Truemobile? 1300 minipci 54mbps
Chipset: Broadcom BCM4306
pciid: 14E4:4320
Driver: http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R81433.EXE
Other: Works with WEP and WPA with either CCMP/AES or TKIP ciphers.

    The INF file for this card specifies it should use 802.11b mode
    (upto 11Mbps) in Ad-Hoc mode. If you want to use 802.11g mode in
    Ad-Hoc mode, you need to change the setting IBSSGmode in the .conf
    files in the driver directory to 2.

So, as you can see, I think that my laptop should be working. Several
people have claimed it does. But after 10 months of failure......

tganks

Tom

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