On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:33 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote: > On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:48, Johan Lozano 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. > > I've used Broadcom 4318 on a Dell Latitude laptop (built-in NIC) with > ndiswrapper and it works just fine. > Your last email on saturday shows that ndiswrapper works with your Broadcome > 4318, ie. you can see the wlan0, all you needed to do was assign an ESSID there is no way to assign an ESSID to this i tried iwconfig wlan0 essid mbnet iwconfig wlan0 essid "mbnet" i tried by the graphical tool i inserted manually in the configuration file /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:1468:0312.5.conf i inserted manually in the configuration file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 nothing helps no manner to get ESSID assigned > using iwconfig so that you can see your access point. Jeff Vian replied to > your message but you did not reply back. Did you try that ? > > > 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. > > As I said above, I think you were very close to get it to work with > ndiswrapper with the Broadcom NIC. Why did you decide to drop that ? Please > give us details of your problem, and follow the suggestion mentioned, and > probably best to try to pick one way to do it and stick with it rather than > randomly tried other methods. I will try to help if you decide to use the > broadcom card and ndiswrapper as I've done that before. I have no experience > with using linuxant nor madwifi so I can't help you there. > why i try other ways? because i working on it almost 14 days without any progress. thanks for any suggestion > Reuben D. Budiardja > > Johan > > > > is there anybody who can help me out here? > > > > > > Johan Lozano > > MicroBit, Duffel > > E-mail : johan.lozano@xxxxxxxxxx > > > > GPG key : 9A9FBFE1 > > Johan Lozano MicroBit, Duffel E-mail : johan.lozano@xxxxxxxxxx GPG key : 9A9FBFE1
