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

From: sktsee (sktsee_at_hogmail.com)
Date: 02/04/05 

Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2005 10:53:02 -0600

Thomas Davie wrote:

[snip]
> 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

I ran across this link from another forum I was browsing. Don't know how
good the instructions are since I don't use wireless, but it is more
oriented to manual installation which might helpful in troubleshooting your
problem.

http://nextgen.no-ip.org/~andrew/ndiswrapper/index.html

Since you already have ndiswrapper installed, you probably could just jump
to, say, step 11 and proceed from there. One thing the author recommends is
to disable your on-board ethernet interface while using your wireless card.
Don't know if you've already tried that yet, but it could be worth a shot.

good luck,
sktsee

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