Using a Broadcom BCM4306 wlan chip with ndiswrapper

[Matti Pöllä]

Hello,

I'm having trouble getting the wlan chip (Broadcom BCM4306) of a
Compaq Presario X6000 laptop working.

Everything seems to be working when loading the windows driver
(bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys in the working directory) using
ndiswrapper.

# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2

# ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5          driver present, hardware present

# iwconfig wlan0

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
          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


But when scanning for networks, I can't see any, although there are
several available:

# iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0     No scan results

Just as if the wlan antenna was switched off. Any ideas how to debug
this? I'm using Ubuntu 5.04.

Oh, and happy New Year! Here in GMT+2 we're still at 2005.


-Matti

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