--- Johan Lozano <johan.lozano@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi all, > > i am trying to install a wireless nic on my acer > aspire 5024 wlmi > without succes. > is someone succeeded in such an attempt and if so > how did you do it? > > i tried with the original nic a broadcom 4318 with > ndiswrapper and the > linuxant way. nothing helps. > today i bought a new nic a d-link dwl-g650 and tried > also with > ndiswrapper as well as with the linuxant manner, > again without success. > finally i followed the madwafi method and even that > was not succesfull. > > is there anybody who can help me out here? > I'm just a noob, but I can tell you what worked for me. I was able to get the internal Broadcom (4309 802.11b/g) working using ndiswrapper. I believe the livna repos has an rpm for ndiswrapper, but I installed from source. Make sure you have the windows driver files for the card. If not, they are available online. Also, make sure the internal card is enabled. My laptop has a button to turn it on/off. I got a little frustrated one day with getting the wifi working before I realized it was turned off. Oh, and make sure wireless-tools are installed; comes with FC4. First download the source from http://ndiswrapper.sf.net Then I untarred it; something like tar -xvf ndisw*.gz Then, I "su -" to be root. Then cd'd into the directory with the ndiswrapper files. Then I did this: #> make #> make install #> ndiswrapper -l [tells you if you have a driver loaded and if it's working] #> ndiswrapper -i /path_to_driver/bcmwlXXX.inf #> ndiswrapper -l [Should now say driver is loaded and hardware is present] #> ndiswrapper -m [create the info file for modprobe] #> modprobe ndiswrapper Assuming there were no errors, the card is on, and you installed the right windows driver, it should now be working. you can now use 'iwlist wlan0 scan' to scan for networks. 'iwconfig wlan0' will tell you your wireless settings. 'dhclient wlan0' will connect to the first available open network. same should work for the external card. hope this helps. ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs
