Using a Broadcom BCM4306 wlan chip with ndiswrapper

[sahutoglu sonmez]

--- Matti Pöllä <mpo at iki.fi> 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
> 
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I got the same card. I used ndisgtk to install the
drivers and then used network seetings (the icon on
the right upper corner that looks like to monitor
behind each other) to configure the connection.

I hope that helps.

Sonmez
 


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