mifan Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 I've installed the ndiswrapper packages from the package manager, and have followed the instructions for installing the windows drivers. The laptop is a compaq C300. I have done ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf upon nidiswrapper -l i get: bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present then modprobe ndiswrapper but when i do iwconfig: lo no wireless extensions. eth0 no wireless extensions. sit0 no wireless extensions. doing ifconfig: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:D4:44:DC:B6 inet addr:192.168.1.10 Bcast:192.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::216:d4ff:fe44:dcb6/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:9324 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:5810 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:11992220 (11.4 MiB) TX bytes:486025 (474.6 KiB) Interrupt:17 Base address:0x2000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:18 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1260 (1.2 KiB) TX bytes:1260 (1.2 KiB) searching the system logs i get: Feb 21 07:34:11 localhost loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(361): couldn't load driver bcmwl5 Feb 21 07:34:11 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:113): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver' Feb 21 07:34:11 localhost loadndisdriver: loadndisdriver: load_driver(361): couldn't load driver bcmwl5 Feb 21 07:34:11 localhost kernel: ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:113): loadndiswrapper failed (65280); check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted February 21, 2007 Report Share Posted February 21, 2007 Could be the wrong driver for your card. Check the ndiswrapper website out, and their database. You'll need to do an lspci from the command line to get more info from your card, in particular the pci:id. From the drivers listed on ndiswrappers site, they will tell you which one works for your card. Chances are, you have one of the broadcomm ones, but the wrong one exactly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mifan Posted February 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2007 (edited) Could be the wrong driver for your card. Check the ndiswrapper website out, and their database. You'll need to do an lspci from the command line to get more info from your card, in particular the pci:id. From the drivers listed on ndiswrappers site, they will tell you which one works for your card. Chances are, you have one of the broadcomm ones, but the wrong one exactly. i do lspci and it shows that it is a broadcom 4311 lspci -n shows its 14e4:4311 which according to the ndiswrapper wiki, uses bcmwl5.inf the ndiswrapper version I'm using is one that can be installed from the repository. Also, I notice that the wireless button doesnt work in linux. how can i get the button to work, or at least be on when the system boots? (the laptop bios already says that wireless is enabled.) Edited February 22, 2007 by mifan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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