Hi All,
I was kind of partially successful in configuring the my wifi card with
ndiswrapper-1.5 along with the 64-bit drivers downloaded from Acer website.
But, not sure if I am facing a slight problem while transferring files from
my desktop to my laptop.
Actually it takes about 12 mins to transfer 6 mb file from my PC to laptop(I
feel this is fairly slow).
I am not sure if this should actually take so long ... it the .
Info about my network@home: a PC connected to Wireless Access Point (which
is Dlink, DL524, supports upto 54 mbps)
over an CAT-5 cable and I connect to my wireless access point from my
laptop. I use WEP 64-with bit key strength between the WAP and laptop.
Is there configuration parameter tweaking required to improve the payload
throughput?
Thanks &
On 2/8/06, sean-lynch@sean-lynch.com
guru,
this thread says to use the 64 bit drivers from the acer website, not from the linuxant website: http://www.suseforums.net/lofiversion/index.php/t16747.html
So there are at least two versions of the bmwl564.inf
-Sean
On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 08:11:00 +0530 guru shashi
wrote: Hi,
I am trying to setup a wireless card on Suse 10.0 (x86_64) on a Acer laptop. Well, I found loads of links that tells what to do using ndiswrapper ... and executed all the steps mentioned, but no luck and could not bring up the interface. I badly need to get this card running. My card is an Broadcom BCM4318, Airforce one 54g.
Steps I followed:
1. Download version 1.5 and 1.9 of ndiswrapper and the 64-bit drivers for Wireless card
2. make and make install of the ndiswrapper
3. depmod -a modprobe ndiswrapper -> This step initially failed .. this output something like
"FATAL: Error inserting ndiswrapper (/lib/modules/2.6.13-15-default/misc/* ndiswrapper.ko*) invalid argument"
Later when I rebooted my system .. could not see this message any longer .. and continued with the next steps after ensuring ndiswrapper was listed ... lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
5. ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf and ndiswrapper -l (to list) -> went fine ... it said hardware and driver found ndiswrapper -m (to create a alias)
6. #dmsg output: loadndiswrapper failed (1792)
7. Configure wireless card using YaST .. this was cool and all went fine
8. rcnetwork restart -> here only my loopback interface and eth0 restarted could not see the wlan0 inferface. ifconfig showed details only about eth0 and lo.
I sincerely appreciate suggestions, thoughts, help and thanks in advance.
Best Regardz, Guru
-- Best Regardz, Guru