Wireless LAN Connectivity

[Preetam_1]

Hello I have Dell Laptop INSPIRON E1405

I have linux installed on it .

I tried to enable wifi connectivity on it but no avail

I went through a post which said that ndis wrapper be reinstalled and windows driver be updated in /lib/windriver/

First there is no such directory by name windriver in /lib folder

Also i tried commenting out all entries except lo in the interfaces file in /etc/network folder and restarting dbus with command /etc/init.d/dbus restart but it didnt help either

I guess there is Broadcomm driver present in my laptop for Wireless connectivity as stated in the Laptop Specifications found on Google.

Any Help would be appreciated

Thanks

[iwanabeguru]

Hi

You must learn apply the howtos in your own enviroment.

1.
install wireless-tools package which you can configure your wireless adapter and connection.

aptitude install wireless-tools

install ndiswrapper and install windows driver.

donwnload the ndiswrapper source
untar it

tar xfz ndiswrapper-x.yy.tar gz

installation

cd ndiswrapper-x.yy
./configure
make
make install

load the driver

modprobe ndiswrapper

it will provide the wlan0 interface

install the windows driver for ndiswrapper
you need the .inf file from the windows driver installer disk
copy it to somwhere for example /lib/windriver
install it

ndiswrapper -i /lib/windriver/windrivername.inf

use iwconfig to configure the conection , it's provided by the wireless-tools package. read the man page

you can write the settings to the /etc/network/interfaces

for example
here is my config

iface wlan0 inet dhcp
        name "wireless net card"
        wireless_essid XXXXXXXXX
        chanel 3
        mode Managed
        ap any
        nick ANUBYS
        rate 11M
        rts off
        frag off
        key off
        power period 3 all
        leasetime 1339200

auto wlan0

if your network is secured with wpa-spk you will need the wpasuplicant package
but i can't help with this

good luck

iwanabeguru