Using a Broadcom BCM4306 wlan chip with ndiswrapper

[MrKnisely]

Matti Pöllä wrote:

>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
>
>Please cc me in your reply.
>  
>
Happy new year to you as well.

Ok, I've got the same card in my Compaq nx9600.  It looks lie you're on 
the right track.  Do you have little blue light showing that your radio 
is on?  Try running iwlist as root:  sudo iwlist wlan0 scan.  Also, note 
that if your APs aren't broadcasting their SSID, you won't see them in 
the list.

Hope this helps!

Mike K.