Problem with mi wireless card

[Filipe Bonjour]

Hi Arturo,

I have the same card (I think, a Dell Wireless 1450 a/b/g), so here is
how to do it. Note that I have Breezy, if you have a previous version,
maybe the packages are called differently...

1) Go to Dell's site and download the Windows XP drivers. I think the
latest version is still "r102318.exe". Note that Dell have different
versions depending on your location. This is the "rest of the world"
version -- if you are in the States of in Japan you should get a
different driver (I think r102319 and r102320? Should be a number close
to r102318 anyway...).

2) Rename the file you got "r102318.zip", and unzip it in a temporary
directory.

Log on as root now.

3) Install the ndiswrapper utils package (ndiswrapper-utils in Breezy).
(In Breezy, the kernel module is included in the kernel package,
linux-image.)

4) Navigate to the temporary folder of point 2). Run

    ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf

    You can delete the temp directory.

5) Load the ndiswrapper module with the command:

    modprobe ndiswrapper

6) Now your card should be recognized. Check that with:

    ndiswrapper -l

    You should get something like:

    Installed ndis drivers:
    bcmwl5  driver present, hardware present

7) Now you need to configure your card to connect to your network. You
can use the graphical tool for that. That's what I did, because I only
had experience with Red Hat before Ubuntu, and the config files in /etc
are totally different.

8) If you're happy, run the following command:

    ndiswrapper -m

    This will add the module ndiswrapper to the modules.conf file, which
will force the module to be loaded at reboot.

Note that the first time I used the card, it was powered off. Make sure
it's powered on...

Hope this helps!

Fil

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Filipe Bonjour

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