Re: Wireless not working on laptop

Mark South wrote:
On Mon, 15 Oct 2007 01:25:38 -0500, Zuvuya wrote:

I saw an article in Linux Forums and tried to follow it to get my
wireless on my laptop working. The link to the article is:
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/linux-tutorials-howtos-reference-material/94685-wireless-lan-linux.html
I have an HP Pavilion dv6445us with Broadcom 802.11a/b/g wireless. I am
running openSUSE 10.2. I used lusb and came up withe following:

Bus 002 Device 003: ID 0c45:62c0 Microdia
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 03f0:171d Hewlett-Packard
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 045e:00e1 Microsoft Corp.
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

I googled the Microdia, Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft devices but only
came up with Intel-based driver information. My laptop is AMD.

Your wireless card is not a USB device. Try doing lspci instead.

So I installed Ndiswrapper and here is how far I got:

linux-ch35:/home/dm # ndiswrapper -i /path/to/driver.inf
driver driver is already installed

So you must already have used ndiswrapper before that, right?

linux-ch35:/home/dm # ndiswrapper -l
driver : invalid driver!

But obviously not the right driver.

I used YAST Network Devices>Network Card and added the
Cisco 802.11 wireless device but still no luck.

Cisco????? Why?

I hope very much that I can get wireless working in Linux, but I know
nothing about kernel hacking.

No kernel hacking is involved.

But we need to start over with ndiswrapper from the beginning.

Thank you for your time and I hope you can help.

I can only help if you are willing to try what I suggest - d'accord?

OK, I ran lspci and got this for the network card:
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 UART (rev 02)

I used the Cisco driver because the numbers matched (802.11). According
to Broadcom the driver has been in the kernel for some time now, so when
I saw numbers that matched I thought it was the one.

Thanks
.

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