wireless trouble - Buffalo WLI-CB-G54

[Christoph Georgi]

To your last problem: adding ndiswrapper into /etc/modules should do the 
trick.

Concering your wlan problem: it seems that you haven't brought the 
interface up:

'$ sudo ifup wlan0'

Inserting the ndiswrapper module is not enough!
Check with 'ifconfig' whether the interface is up and please post the 
output if there are still problems.

regards
.christoph



toyfactory wrote:
> I recently installed Hoary on my Sony Vaio Z600.  I actually intended to
> check out the live CD first, but by mistake I used the install disc
> instead!  It seems to work reasonably well though, Gnome is a little
> sluggish (it's a 700MHz PIII, 192MB RAM) so I might try an alternative
> window manager sometime.
> 
> One problem I have is the wireless network.  I have a PCMCIA Buffalo
> WLI-CB-G54 that doesn't want to come on.
> 
> ndiswrapper -l reports:
> 
> bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present
> 
> iwconfig reports:
> 
> wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:off/any
> Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
> RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
> Power Management:off
> Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
> Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
> Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
> 
> iwlist wlan0 scan reports:
> 
> wlan0 No scan results
> 
> My AP is configured to broadcast SSID so the fact that scan doesn't pick
> anything up suggests the adaptor isn't working.  I think the fact that
> the power light isn't on is probably a big give-away that it's not
> working!
> 
> Currently I have to modprobe -i ndiswrapper manually, later I ought to
> find how to get it all working automatically.  Incidentally, it works in
> Windows without a hitch.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Nick
> 

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