superplay Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Hi Folks I have just installed Mandriva 2006 onto my laptop and am attempting to get my Buffalo WLI-CB-G54A wireless NIC to work (PCCARD) and failing. Looking here: http://www.linuxcompatible.org/thread30604-1.html It says that the card should work "I use a Buffalo G54 (WLI-CB-G54A) via ndiswrapper 0.12 and the bcmwl5a.inf" AbsoluteValue Systems lists the card http://www.linux-wlan.org/docs/wlan_adapters.html.gz However I can not get it to work on my system: I have downloaded the XP drivers directly from Buffalo for the card however bcmwl5a.inf does not exists so I downloaded file R76521 from Dell which did. Each time I select "Use a windows driver (With ndiswrapper version which came with Mandriva) the driver fails with the error "unable to find NDSIwrapper interface" I have so fat tried the following .inf files From the buffalo driver download net2pg54 netcbg54 netbwc2k From the dell download bcmwl5a bcml5 If I look under NICs in hardware the card is shown as aL Broadcom Corp BCM94306 802.11g Vendor: 5348 Device ID: 17184 SubVendor: 4436 Sub device ID: 804 Help! Cheers SuperPlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superplay Posted January 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Seems to work with Linuxant installed. SuperPlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Seems to work with Linuxant installed. SuperPlay <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Try a lsmod then and see if you can find the driver..... then you can hopefully find the same one in 2006. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaraeez Posted January 7, 2006 Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Seems to work with Linuxant installed. SuperPlay <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Hi, For it to work with driverloader means that the driver you supplied is working & should work with ndiswrapper. If you still want to use ndiswrapper (after your 30 days trial ends!!) I would recommend that you uninstall the version you have & download the most recent version (1.7, I think) then try again.. HTH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superplay Posted January 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 7, 2006 Thanks for the information Just need to work out why iwconfig monitor is failing now! https://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=30209 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superplay Posted January 8, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2006 Still going for this! Looking at the issue I am going to attempt to get the driver working using the ndiswapper to see if "driverloader" is the issue with me runnning ifconfig eth1 mode monitor Does anyone have a link to the latest version of the ndiswrapper for Mandriva 2006 free using 2.6.12-mdk I can only find source rpm files. Thanks SuperPlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superplay Posted January 12, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2006 Hi Folks Thank you to all took the time out to help me with this one :-) I managed to get the ndiswrapper to compile from source and it is working great. Cheers SuperPlay Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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