Rama Murthy Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 I have installed mandriva 2007 on my dell inspiron 1501 laptop. My wireless lan is not being detected by mandriva .. 802.11g wireless LAN is what I have on my laptop.. I have installed only first two installation CDs.. Where can I get the drivers? when I tried locating for driver in the installation cds, it said It can also take a .ini file (windows driver format) and install the driver for me.. Is is possible :o ? I still dint try this.. Please advise... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rxjxyz Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Hi, it's quite easy to work it out. Just set up the wireless in control center, you can select to use ndiswrapper, then you will be told to find the *.inf file(which you could find in C:\windows\system32\drivers), if you really can not find it, just download one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted January 24, 2007 Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 What you do really depends on what kind of wireless card you have...specifically, model and chipset. If you don't have this information, let us know what model of laptop you are using, and we should be able to determine it's type. Or you could just grab the *.inf file and go that route...might or might not work. again, depends on the card. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted January 24, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 24, 2007 Hi, it's quite easy to work it out. Just set up the wireless in control center, you can select to use ndiswrapper, then you will be told to find the *.inf file(which you could find in C:\windows\system32\drivers), if you really can not find it, just download one. Thank you!! I will try this today.. What you do really depends on what kind of wireless card you have...specifically, model and chipset. If you don't have this information, let us know what model of laptop you are using, and we should be able to determine it's type. Or you could just grab the *.inf file and go that route...might or might not work. again, depends on the card. Hi..mine is dell insprion 1501 laptop with AMD turion 64 MK36 2Gigahz processor.. Ram: 1GB DDR II SDRAM HDD: Serial ATA Networking Data link protocol Ethernet, Fast Ethernet Lancard: 802.11g wireless LAN thank you.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted January 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 Hi.. I have searched for drivers and I got these two files.. bcmw15.inf and bcmw15.sys.. I have installed these drivers by the command ndiswrapper -i bcmw15.inf.. I have also configured my new internet connection.. It got configured.. but in the system configuration menu, when i click wireless lan icon, It still says no device found... Do i need to recompile my kernel or something like that? Please help!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 25, 2007 Report Share Posted January 25, 2007 (edited) You probably need to get down to the command line to effectively trouble shoot this. Open a console and run: $ su <enter root password> # lsmod and post the output. Also run: # ndiswrapper -l # iwconfig and post the output of both. The above commands' output will give everyone the necessary info for troubleshooting. FYI "lsmod" lists all modules(aka drivers in windows) currently loaded on your system; "ndiswrapper -l" will list all windows drivers installed on your sytem through ndiswrapper and "iwconfig" will list all wireless devices recognized by your system. Edited January 25, 2007 by pmpatrick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Thank you.. Here are the outputs.. lsmod: Module Size Used by isofs 32444 1 ipt_IFWLOG 3780 2 ipt_psd 44488 1 ip_set_iptree 7368 2 xt_tcpudp 3776 11 xt_state 2688 12 xt_pkttype 2496 4 iptable_raw 2496 0 xt_CLASSIFY 2464 0 xt_CONNMARK 2912 0 xt_MARK 2976 0 xt_length 2592 0 xt_connmark 2592 0 xt_physdev 3024 0 xt_policy 4320 6 xt_multiport 3904 4 xt_conntrack 2976 0 ipt_ULOG 7204 0 ipt_TTL 2752 0 ipt_ttl 2464 0 ipt_TOS 2688 0 ipt_tos 2240 0 ipt_TCPMSS 4288 0 ipt_set 3008 2 ipt_SAME 2976 0 ipt_REJECT 5184 4 ipt_REDIRECT 2848 0 ipt_recent 10188 0 ipt_owner 2560 0 ipt_NETMAP 2752 0 ipt_MASQUERADE 3936 0 ipt_LOG 7232 9 ipt_iprange 2432 0 ipt_hashlimit 8168 0 ipt_ECN 3424 0 ipt_ecn 2752 0 ipt_DSCP 2688 0 ipt_dscp 2272 0 ipt_CLUSTERIP 7652 0 ipt_ah 2496 0 ipt_addrtype 2432 0 ip_set_portmap 4896 0 ip_set_macipmap 4836 0 ip_set_ipmap 4896 0 ip_set_iphash 7908 0 ip_set 19196 11 ip_set_iptree,ipt_set,ip_set_portmap,ip_set_macipmap,ip_set_ipmap,ip_set_iphash ip_nat_irc 2912 0 ip_nat_tftp 2272 0 ip_nat_ftp 3648 0 ip_conntrack_irc 6000 1 ip_nat_irc ip_conntrack_tftp 4088 1 ip_nat_tftp ip_conntrack_ftp 6960 1 ip_nat_ftp iptable_nat 7652 0 ip_nat 15692 8 ipt_SAME,ipt_REDIRECT,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_tftp,ip_nat_ft p,iptable_nat ip_conntrack 48320 13 xt_state,xt_CONNMARK,xt_connmark,xt_conntrack,ipt_MASQUERADE,ip_nat_irc,ip_nat_t ftp,ip_nat_ftp,ip_conntrack_irc,ip_conntrack_tftp,ip_conntrack_ftp,iptable_nat,i p _nat nfnetlink 5912 2 ip_nat,ip_conntrack iptable_mangle 3104 1 iptable_filter 3232 1 ip_tables 12740 4 iptable_raw,iptable_nat,iptable_mangle,iptable_filter x_tables 12132 40 ipt_IFWLOG,ipt_psd,xt_tcpudp,xt_state,xt_pkttype,xt_CLASSIFY,xt_CONNMARK,xt_MARK ,xt_length,xt_connmark,xt_physdev,xt_policy,xt_multiport,xt_conntrack,ipt_ULOG,i p t_TTL,ipt_ttl,ipt_TOS,ipt_tos,ipt_TCPMSS,ipt_set,ipt_SAME,ipt_REJECT,ipt_REDIREC T ,ipt_recent,ipt_owner,ipt_NETMAP,ipt_MASQUERADE,ipt_LOG,ipt_iprange,ipt_hashlimi t ,ipt_ECN,ipt_ecn,ipt_DSCP,ipt_dscp,ipt_CLUSTERIP,ipt_ah,ipt_addrtype,iptable_nat , ip_tables ipv6 237120 10 snd_seq_dummy 3620 0 snd_seq_oss 31392 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7072 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 49488 5 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7212 3 snd_seq_dummy,snd_seq_oss,snd_seq ndiswrapper 169776 0 snd_pcm_oss 40384 0 snd_mixer_oss 16096 1 snd_pcm_oss b44 22284 0 mii 5664 1 b44 af_packet 17960 0 snd_hda_intel 15828 1 snd_hda_codec 164544 1 snd_hda_intel snd_pcm 70116 3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec snd_timer 19620 2 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 8712 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd 46500 11 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_h da_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer soundcore 8096 1 snd video 13924 0 thermal 11240 0 processor 21448 1 thermal fan 4036 0 container 3968 0 button 5808 0 battery 8260 0 ac 4292 0 ide_cd 35776 1 binfmt_misc 9800 1 loop 15400 0 nls_utf8 2624 4 ntfs 266940 3 dm_mod 49944 0 amd64_agp 10948 0 agpgart 27240 1 amd64_agp nvram 8104 0 ehci_hcd 29160 0 usbmouse 5280 0 usbhid 49024 0 ohci_hcd 19012 0 usbcore 113472 6 ndiswrapper,ehci_hcd,usbmouse,usbhid,ohci_hcd tsdev 7040 0 evdev 8864 2 joydev 8928 0 ext3 124936 1 jbd 51028 1 ext3 sd_mod 18368 6 ata_piix 10500 0 ahci 15140 5 libata 60620 2 ata_piix,ahci scsi_mod 118376 3 sd_mod,ahci,libata iwconfig: [root@localhost Desktop]# iwconfig lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any Nickname:"localhost" Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B Encryption key:off Power Management:off Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0 Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 sit0 no wireless extensions. [root@localhost Desktop]# ndiswrapper -l: [root@localhost Desktop]# ndiswrapper -l Installed drivers: autorun invalid driver! bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present bcmwl5.sys invalid driver! [root@localhost Desktop]# Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted January 26, 2007 Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 Looks good. From lsmod, you can see ndiswrapper is loading on boot. As it loads it should create a wireless interface and iwconfig shows that's exactly what occurred; wlan0 was created but it is not yet configured. The ndiswrapper -l command shows you have the broadcom windows driver(bcmw15) installed but you alos improperly installed a *.sys file which I expected to see from your prior post. With ndiswrapper, you should only attempt to install *.inf files. You can get rid of bcmwl5.sys in two ways. As root you can run: # ndiswrapper -e bcmwl5.sys Or you can go into /etc/ndiswrapper and delete bcmwl5.sys. You need to be root to delete that file which you can accompolish from the command line with: # rm /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5.sys In either case, bcmwl5.sys will be deleted. Make absolutely sure you are deleting bcmwl5.sys and not bcmwl5, otherwise you will have to reinstall bcmwl5 by using the bcmwl5.inf file again. After doing the above, the error message from ndiswrapper-l should go away. With that done, you can try to configure wlan0 directly from the command line. You need to know the essid for the wireless router you want to hook up with. If the router is using a wep key, you will also have to know that. wpa encryption does not work that well with ndiswrapper and you need a separate application to use it called wpa supplicant. For your initial test, I would recommend changing to wep encryption or no encryption if you are currently using wpa. Open a console, su to root, and run: # iwconfig wlan0 essid <insert essid name> # iwconfig wlan0 key <insert WEP hex key> # dhclient wlan0 That should do it assuming you are using dhcp instead of a static ip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rama Murthy Posted January 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2007 T H A N K Y O U!!!! I am now able to connect to internet... Thanks a ton... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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