On Tuesday 16 August 2005 06:54 pm, Johan Lozano wrote: > 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 > clip if you have ndiswrapper properly installed try ndiswrapper -l # list tje driver and device. If you don't see your MS driver and the Wifi card you need to configure properly. For posterity; (As root user) 1) In the directory with the *.inf file nidiswrapper -i 2) scanpci -V #will give something like pci bus 0x0000 cardnum 0x0a function 0x00: vendor 0x17fe device 0x2120 Device unknown 3) ndiswrapper -d 17fe:2120 # I may have this backwards -- but don't think so -- 4) ndiswrapper -m # Writes info to modprobe.conf 5) modprobe ndiswrapper Try -- iwlist wlan0 scan -- to see if you can see your network. Then you can use system-config-network to set up the Wifi card.
