Help w/ wireless on Dell Latitude D520

[Larry Hartman]

If you have the infamous Broadcomm Air Force One adapter (BCM4318) you can go 
to the below websites for NDISwrapper setup (should be useful for any BCM 
43xx wireless).  The reversed engineered drivers have only had minimal 
success with this wireless.  So far I have only been able to get mine up 
without encyption.

Larry


http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=197102&highlight=broadcom
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx/Edgy?highlight=%28bcm43xx%29
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=11110.0



On Monday 05 February 2007, Donn wrote:
> Speaking of ndiswrapper - here is some help on the forum I have not tried
> (for time) yet but was in answer to my question about my USB modem stick.
> It seems generic, though, might work for a pcmcia card too:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=77034
>
> [quote]
> I'm runing on Ubuntu 6.10 with that usb adapter, using ndiswrapper.
>
> This is how i made it work:
>
> 1. Get the driver. I got mine from SMC Networks: http://www.smc.com
>
> 2. Unpack the driver somwhere like in home dir.
>
> 3. Install ndiswrapper (use terminal or synaptic package manager), and the
> windows driver through NDISWrapper
> Im using the terminal:
> sudo apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils-1.8
> cd /where_you_unpacked_the_driver/ (if there's subfolder for OS go there, i
> used the WinXp folder)
> sudo ndiswrapper -i SMC2862W.inf (This should be the name of the Windows
> INF file in the folder)
> sudo ndiswrapper -l (shows if the driver is installed) Mine looks like
> this "smc2862w driver installed, hardware present"
> sudo modprobe ndiswrapper (this inserts the module in the kernel)
> sudo ndiswrapper -m (this creates a default entry for ndiswrapper
> in /etc/modprobe.d/)
>
> 4. Get the Network Manager package (is use gnome)
> sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
>
> 5. Reboot
>
> If all went well you should now have an additional applet in the top bar
> that displays the a list of WLANS in the area, or you can select add one
> (if ssid is hidden)
> [/quote]
>
> hthalb
> /d