Dennis,
I d/l'ed and used ndiswrapper 1.9 for the installation. That was the newest
stable version.
Here's what I got when I typed those three commands:
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linux:/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.9 # ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present
linux:/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.9 # ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0F:1F:16:32:A8
inet addr:192.168.1.103 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fe16:32a8/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:47971 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:47939 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:13657381 (13.0 Mb) TX bytes:5566690 (5.3 Mb)
Interrupt:193
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:441 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:441 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:39564 (38.6 Kb) TX bytes:39564 (38.6 Kb)
linux:/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.9 # iwconfig
lo no wireless extensions.
sit0 no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
linux:/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.9 # rcnetwork status
Checking optional network interfaces:
eth0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
eth0 configuration: eth-id-00:0f:1f:16:32:a8
eth0 DHCP client (dhcpcd) is running
eth0 IP address: 192.168.1.103/24
running
Checking mandatory network interfaces:
lo
IP address: 127.0.0.1/8
running
Checking service network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
running
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ndiwrapper is loaded when I type lsmod, but the system does not seem to
recognize the wlan card still.
Thanks,
Mark
On 2/12/06, Dennis Neumeier
Mark,
First of all: Please make sure that you always reply to the Mailinglist.
Thank you for the e-mail. This is my first experience with Linux so I'm only starting to learn my way around it. As for your questions:
I know that Linux is sometimes a hard thing. But don´t give up - everything I wanted could be realized! And the community is greeeat what concerns support!
1. I don't know why the smp-kernel is mentioned (I don't even know why this is relevant, but again I'm new. But I do know that when I type: ================== linux:/usr/src/ndiswrapper-1.9 # uname -r 2.6.13-15.8-smp ==================
Your laptop, does it have an Intel CPU? I know that there are Intel CPUs which are build up with 2 cores, and that´s why SuSE chooses the multi-kernel (=smp) at installation time. So this could be correct!
3. What do you mean by check for an ndiswrapper? When I type lsmod, it does show up in that list of running operations. Other than that I'm not sure what you mean.
I mean if you checked in the internet if there´s a new version. The website is: http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ But this should be one of the last things we´re going to do!
Next thing: After having installed the driver with ndiswrapper, please send the output of the following commands:
- ifconfig - iwconfig - rcnetwork status
Greets, Dennis