BroadCom Bcm4318 Wireless Help

[k2ownz]

I currently have a BroadCom BCM4318 Wireless Card on my box, when I boot off Backtrack 3 it automatically detects the card and lets me access a network. Now I tried to do a raw install with Suse Linux 10 Enterprise Edition and I have been so frustrated with the results. I use the lspci command and it shows the BroadCom is connected, but does nothing about it. I then resorted to ndiswrapper and wrapped the driver and ndiswrapper -i worked fine and i checked and it said the driver was present and installed, then I tried modprobe ndiswrapper but it says: FATAL: ndiswrapper module does not exist. or something of the so, i continued on and i threw the ndiswrapper as the module name for the yast2 network configuration. And I fired up Kwifimanager and it doesnt show that it has detected any wireless interface. Can someone please shoot me in the head? and helpp?

Also, I really want to use Backtrack 3 on my laptop. Can someone point to a great USB Wireless Card that works like plugin n' play for backtrack 3 and suse 10 on Amazon thats cheap[under $50].
THanks in advance.

[waterhead]

The Broadcom bcm4318 chip in Linux uses the b43 driver module. It is usually loaded by default, because the system will recognize the chip and load the b43 module.

To work in Linux, the b43 module requires firmware to first be loaded. This firmware is proprietary software, and is not included in most Linux distributions. I would guess that Backtrack is one that does include it.

The firmware is rather easy to install, and I would not choose my distro on whether it has it or not. To be sure that this is the problem, run this command.

dmesg | grep firmware

The error output actually should have the instructions on what to do. Go to this web site, and follow the instructions for installing the firmware.
b43 - Linux Wireless

[k2ownz]

I got as far as sucessful compiling the driver using ndiswrapper and I used the depreciated version of bcm43(bcm43xx) for the firmware and successfully extracted everything to the /lib/firmware location.

Now KWifiManager has a better time detecting and scanning networks, but my problem is connecting to one. I checked with iwconfig and I got this result:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any  Nickname:"linux"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.412 GHz  Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

I configured Network Devices so the module name was ndiswrapper and I clicked User Controlled presuming thats how KWifiManager would allow me to connect.

I am not sure if I should've used the depreciated drivers but the other drivers said for kernel version 2.6.25 and I used the command uname -r and got: 2.6.13.15-smp so I decided to use the depricated versions instead which are the older driver versions.

What am I doing wrong? And thanks in regards. This means alot. =]

[waterhead]

NDISwrapper is a completely different driver than b43. They can both be used for the same wireless cards, but they are not compatible.

NDISwrapper was developed at a time when wireless drivers for Linux were not "mature" yet. It uses the WinXP driver to make a wireless work. It doesn't need any firmware added, as it is already in the WinXP driver.

The b43 driver is the most recent Broadcom wireless driver. It is much improved over the bcm43xx driver, which is no longer used. The b43 driver requires that firmware be installed in /lib/firmware/, or /lib/firmware/b43/. The location of the firmware is different,depending on the distro. See the output of this command for any firmware errors.

dmesg | grep firmware

You need to decide which driver you want to use, NDISwrapper or b43, and remove the one that you don't use. I recommend the b43 driver with firmware installation.

[k2ownz]

The command dmseg | grep firmware didnt return any error or display anything...=/

And as of the weblink you sent me, I followed the instructions and after using fwcutter to extract the content files of wl_apsta.o what exactly I do? Cause after using fwcutter it just extracts all the stuff into the firmware directory.

I tried to see if Yast2 had my wireless card or something in it's "select from list" feature but I really didnt see anything that looked like what it should've been.

btw... running a 64bit machine would make a difference because I THINK i have a 64bit machine but i installed the suse 10 32bit. I am not much sure bout either. =P

thanks.

[waterhead]

Let's start from the beginning. Please post the outputs of the following commands, so I can diagnose it better.

lspci -nn

lsusb

lsmod

dmesg

I know some of these are big, but post them anyway.

[waterhead]

I forgot to add this. As for the 32-bit OS on a 64-bit system. If a 32-bit OS is installed, as far as Linux is concerned you have a 32-bit system.

[k2ownz]

lspci:

linux:/home/ebrizzlez # lspci -nn
00:00.0 Class 0600: 8086:2770 (rev 02)
00:02.0 Class 0300: 8086:2772 (rev 02)
00:1b.0 Class 0403: 8086:27d8 (rev 01)
00:1c.0 Class 0604: 8086:27d0 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 Class 0604: 8086:27d4 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 Class 0604: 8086:27d6 (rev 01)
00:1c.4 Class 0604: 8086:27e0 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 Class 0604: 8086:27e2 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 Class 0c03: 8086:27c8 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 Class 0c03: 8086:27c9 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 Class 0c03: 8086:27ca (rev 01)
00:1d.3 Class 0c03: 8086:27cb (rev 01)
00:1d.7 Class 0c03: 8086:27cc (rev 01)
00:1e.0 Class 0604: 8086:244e (rev e1)
00:1f.0 Class 0601: 8086:27b0 (rev 01)
00:1f.1 Class 0101: 8086:27df (rev 01)
00:1f.2 Class 0101: 8086:27c0 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 Class 0c05: 8086:27da (rev 01)
06:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)
06:01.0 Class 0780: 11c1:0620
06:08.0 Class 0200: 8086:1094 (rev 01)

lsusb:

linux:/home/ebrizzlez # lsusb
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 058f:6377 Alcor Micro Corp.
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

lsmod:

linux:/home/ebrizzlez # lsmod
Module                  Size  Used by
ipt_pkttype             5632  1
ipt_LOG                11392  7
ipt_limit               6528  7
speedstep_lib           8452  0
freq_table              8832  0
snd_pcm_oss            67616  0
snd_mixer_oss          24704  1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_seq                62864  0
snd_seq_device         13068  1 snd_seq
button                 11024  0
battery                14212  0
ac                      9220  0
af_packet              31368  4
edd                    14560  0
usb_storage            81344  0
usbhid                 50656  0
e100                   42496  0
mii                     9600  1 e100
i2c_i801               12812  0
i2c_core               25344  1 i2c_i801
ehci_hcd               38920  0
hw_random               9492  0
generic                 8452  0 [permanent]
intel_agp              26652  1
snd_hda_intel          23296  1
agpgart                38476  2 intel_agp
snd_hda_codec          95872  1 snd_hda_intel
uhci_hcd               39440  0
pci_hotplug            32188  0
snd_pcm               109700  3 snd_pcm_oss,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec
snd_timer              31108  2 snd_seq,snd_pcm
snd                    71300  10 snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_hda_codec,snd_pcm,snd_timer
soundcore              13920  1 snd
snd_page_alloc         15112  2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm
ip6t_REJECT             9728  3
ipt_REJECT              9984  3
ipt_state               5888  12
iptable_mangle          6784  0
iptable_nat            27188  0
iptable_filter          6912  1
parport_pc             45252  1
lp                     15780  0
parport                40392  2 parport_pc,lp
ip6table_mangle         6272  0
ip_conntrack           48872  2 ipt_state,iptable_nat
ip_tables              25344  8 ipt_pkttype,ipt_LOG,ipt_limit,ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_mangle,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
ip6table_filter         6656  1
ip6_tables             23680  3 ip6t_REJECT,ip6table_mangle,ip6table_filter
ipv6                  280192  13 ip6t_REJECT
ndiswrapper           176308  0
usbcore               126848  6 usb_storage,usbhid,ehci_hcd,uhci_hcd,ndiswrapper
nls_utf8                6016  2
ntfs                  202896  2
dm_mod                 63004  0
reiserfs              269424  1
fan                     8964  0
thermal                18696  0
processor              31720  1 thermal
sg                     42528  0
ata_piix               13956  4
ide_cd                 46084  0
cdrom                  42912  1 ide_cd
libata                 55428  1 ata_piix
piix                   14596  0 [permanent]
sd_mod                 23808  5
scsi_mod              142952  4 usb_storage,sg,libata,sd_mod
ide_disk               22656  0
ide_core              136528  5 usb_storage,generic,ide_cd,piix,ide_disk

dmesg:

linux:~ # dmesg
Linux version 2.6.13-15-smp (geeko@buildhost) (gcc version 4.0.2 20050901 (prerelease) (SUSE Linux)) #1 SMP Tue Sep 13 14:56:15 UTC 2005
BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000008f000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000000008f000 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 000000003f552000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f552000 - 000000003f55a000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f55a000 - 000000003f5e2000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f5e2000 - 000000003f5e6000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f5e6000 - 000000003f671000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f671000 - 000000003f6e9000 (ACPI NVS)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f6e9000 - 000000003f6f1000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f6f1000 - 000000003f6ff000 (ACPI data)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f6ff000 - 000000003f700000 (usable)
 BIOS-e820: 000000003f700000 - 0000000040000000 (reserved)
 BIOS-e820: 00000000fff80000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
119MB HIGHMEM available.
896MB LOWMEM available.
found SMP MP-table at 000fe200
On node 0 totalpages: 259840
  DMA zone: 4096 pages, LIFO batch:1
  Normal zone: 225280 pages, LIFO batch:31
  HighMem zone: 30464 pages, LIFO batch:15
DMI 2.4 present.
Using APIC driver default
ACPI: RSDP (v000 GATEWA                                ) @ 0x000fe020
ACPI: RSDT (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026      0x01000013) @ 0x3f6fe038
ACPI: FADT (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6fd000
ACPI: MADT (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6f7000
ACPI: WDDT (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6f6000
ACPI: MCFG (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6f5000
ACPI: ASF! (v032 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6f4000
ACPI: HPET (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6f3000
ACPI: SLIC (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x3f6f2000
ACPI: DSDT (v001 GATEWA SYSTEM   0x00000026 MSFT 0x01000013) @ 0x00000000
ACPI: PM-Timer IO Port: 0x408
ACPI: Local APIC address 0xfee00000
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x00] enabled)
Processor #0 15:6 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
Processor #1 15:6 APIC version 20
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x82] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x83] disabled)
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x02] dfl dfl lint[0x1])
ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] gsi_base[0])
IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 dfl dfl)
ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
ACPI: IRQ0 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ2 used by override.
ACPI: IRQ9 used by override.
Enabling APIC mode:  Flat.  Using 1 I/O APICs
Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
Allocating PCI resources starting at 40000000 (gap: 40000000:bff80000)
Built 1 zonelists
Kernel command line: root=/dev/sda6 vga=0x314 selinux=0    resume=/dev/sda5  splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
Initializing CPU#0
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order: 12, 65536 bytes)
Detected 3194.680 MHz processor.
Using pmtmr for high-res timesource
Console: colour dummy device 80x25
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Memory: 1022156k/1039360k available (2330k kernel code, 15556k reserved, 750k data, 252k init, 121272k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6396.15 BogoMIPS (lpj=12792313)
Security Framework v1.0.0 initialized
SELinux:  Disabled at boot.
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e49d 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e49d 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
using mwait in idle threads.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 0
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000080 0000e49d 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (24) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
mtrr: v2.0 (20020519)
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
checking if image is initramfs... it is
Freeing initrd memory: 1751k freed
ACPI: Looking for DSDT in initrd... not found!
 not found!
CPU0: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping 05
Booting processor 1/1 eip 3000
Initializing CPU#1
Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 6388.75 BogoMIPS (lpj=12777510)
CPU: After generic identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e49d 00000000 00000001
CPU: After vendor identify, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000000 0000e49d 00000000 00000001
monitor/mwait feature present.
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 16K
CPU: L2 cache: 2048K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
CPU: Processor Core ID: 1
CPU: After all inits, caps: bfebfbff 20100000 00000000 00000080 0000e49d 00000000 00000001
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#1.
CPU1: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (24) available
CPU1: Thermal monitoring enabled
CPU1: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.20GHz stepping 05
Total of 2 processors activated (12784.91 BogoMIPS).
ENABLING IO-APIC IRQs
..TIMER: vector=0x31 pin1=2 pin2=-1
checking TSC synchronization across 2 CPUs: passed.
Brought up 2 CPUs
NET: Registered protocol family 16
ACPI: bus type pci registered
PCI: Using MMCONFIG
ACPI: Subsystem revision 20050408
ACPI: Interpreter enabled
ACPI: Using IOAPIC for interrupt routing
ACPI: PCI Root Bridge [PCI0] (0000:00)
PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00)
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] segment is 0
ACPI: Assume root bridge [\_SB_.PCI0] bus is 0
Boot video device is 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Ignoring BAR0-3 of IDE controller 0000:00:1f.1
PCI: Transparent bridge - 0000:00:1e.0
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.P32_._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKA] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKB] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 11 12) *0, disabled.
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKC] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKD] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 10 *11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 *9 10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 4 5 7 9 *10 11 12)
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX0._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX2._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX3._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX4._PRT]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.PEX5._PRT]
Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay
pnp: PnP ACPI init
pnp: PnP ACPI: found 11 devices
PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
PCI: If a device doesn't work, try "pci=routeirq".  If it helps, post a report
TC classifier action (bugs to netdev@vger.kernel.org cc hadi@cyberus.ca)
pnp: 00:05: ioport range 0x500-0x53f has been reserved
pnp: 00:05: ioport range 0x400-0x47f could not be reserved
pnp: 00:05: ioport range 0x680-0x6ff has been reserved
PCI: Ignore bogus resource 6 [0:0] of 0000:00:02.0
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.0
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.2
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.3
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.4
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1c.5
  IO window: disabled.
  MEM window: disabled.
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
PCI: Bridge: 0000:00:1e.0
  IO window: 1000-1fff
  MEM window: 50000000-500fffff
  PREFETCH window: disabled.
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.5[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.5 to 64
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1e.0 to 64
apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.16ac)
apm: disabled - APM is not SMP safe.
audit: initializing netlink socket (disabled)
audit(1222659963.336:1): initialized
highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
Total HugeTLB memory allocated, 0
VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
Initializing Cryptographic API
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.0[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.0 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.2 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.3[D] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.3 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.4[A] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 169
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.4 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1c.5[B] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1c.5 to 64
assign_interrupt_mode Found MSI capability
Allocate Port Service[pcie00]
Allocate Port Service[pcie02]
Allocate Port Service[pcie03]
vesafb: framebuffer at 0x40000000, mapped to 0xf8880000, using 3750k, total 7872k
vesafb: mode is 800x600x16, linelength=1600, pages=7
vesafb: protected mode interface info at 00ff:44f0
vesafb: scrolling: redraw
vesafb: Truecolor: size=0:5:6:5, shift=0:11:5:0
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture...<6> silentjpeg size 51518 bytes,<6>...found (800x600, 8809 bytes, v3).
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 99x34
fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device
isapnp: Scanning for PnP cards...
isapnp: No Plug & Play device found
Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
hpet_acpi_add: no address or irqs in _CRS
PNP: PS/2 controller doesn't have AUX irq; using default 0xc
PNP: PS/2 Controller [PNP0303:PS2K] at 0x60,0x64 irq 112
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
io scheduler noop registered
io scheduler anticipatory registered
io scheduler deadline registered
io scheduler cfq registered
floppy0: no floppy controllers found
RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 64000K size 1024 blocksize
loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
input: PC Speaker
md: md driver 0.90.2 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
md: bitmap version 3.38
NET: Registered protocol family 2
IP route cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 5, 131072 bytes)
TCP established hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes)
TCP bind hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
TCP: Hash tables configured (established 131072 bind 65536)
TCP reno registered
NET: Registered protocol family 1
Starting balanced_irq
Using IPI No-Shortcut mode
ACPI wakeup devices:
SLPB  P32 UAR1 PEX0 PEX1 PEX2 PEX3 PEX4 PEX5 UHC1 UHC2 UHC3 UHC4 EHCI AC9M AZAL
ACPI: (supports S0 S1 S3 S4 S5)
Freeing unused kernel memory: 252k freed
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
SCSI subsystem initialized
ICH7: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.1[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
ICH7: chipset revision 1
ICH7: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
    ide0: BM-DMA at 0x20b0-0x20b7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
Probing IDE interface ide0...
input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
hda: TSSTcorpCD/DVDW TS-H652D, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
libata version 1.12 loaded.
hda: ATAPI 48X DVD-ROM DVD-R-RAM CD-R/RW drive, 2048kB Cache, UDMA(33)
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
ata_piix version 1.04
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1f.2[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1f.2 to 64
ata1: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x20C8 ctl 0x20EE bmdma 0x20A0 irq 185
ata2: SATA max UDMA/133 cmd 0x20C0 ctl 0x20EA bmdma 0x20A8 irq 185
ata1: dev 0 cfg 49:2f00 82:746b 83:7f61 84:4023 85:7469 86:3c41 87:4023 88:207f
ata1: dev 0 ATA, max UDMA/133, 488397168 sectors: lba48
ata1: dev 0 configured for UDMA/133
scsi0 : ata_piix
ATA: abnormal status 0x7F on port 0x20C7
ata2: disabling port
scsi1 : ata_piix
  Vendor: ATA       Model: WDC WD2500JS-22N  Rev: 10.0
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 05
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
SCSI device sda: 488397168 512-byte hdwr sectors (250059 MB)
SCSI device sda: drive cache: write back
 sda: sda1 sda2 sda3 < sda5 sda6 >
Attached scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
ACPI: CPU0 (power states: C1[C1])
ACPI: CPU1 (power states: C1[C1])
    ACPI-0733: *** Warning: Processor Device is not present
    ACPI-0521: *** Warning: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x3
    ACPI-0733: *** Warning: Processor Device is not present
    ACPI-0521: *** Warning: Error getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x4
Attempting manual resume
swsusp: Suspend partition has wrong signature?
ReiserFS: sda6: found reiserfs format "3.6" with standard journal
ReiserFS: sda6: using ordered data mode
ReiserFS: sda6: journal params: device sda6, size 8192, journal first block 18, max trans len 1024, max batch 900, max commit age 30, max trans age 30
ReiserFS: sda6: checking transaction log (sda6)
ReiserFS: sda6: Using r5 hash to sort names
md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
md: autorun ...
md: ... autorun DONE.
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
device-mapper: 4.4.0-ioctl (2005-01-12) initialised: dm-devel@redhat.com
NTFS driver 2.1.23 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS-fs error (device sda1): ntfs_check_logfile(): The two restart pages in $LogFile do not match.
NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Failed to load $LogFile.  Will not be able to remount read-write.  Mount in Windows.
NTFS volume version 3.1.
NTFS-fs error (device sda2): ntfs_check_logfile(): The two restart pages in $LogFile do not match.
NTFS-fs warning (device sda2): load_system_files(): Failed to load $LogFile.  Will not be able to remount read-write.  Mount in Windows.
usbcore: registered new driver usbfs
usbcore: registered new driver hub
ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
Adding 1052216k swap on /dev/sda5.  Priority:-1 extents:1
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5-4318 (Broadcom,05/26/2005, 3.120.27.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 58
ndiswrapper: using irq 58
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03ba0a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8120 buckets, 64960 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:1a:70:38:b4:95 using driver bcmwl5-4318, configuration file 14E4:4318.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
parport: PnPBIOS parport detected.
parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7 [PCSPP,TRISTATE,EPP]
lp0: using parport0 (interrupt-driven).
pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v2.3
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.0[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 66
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.0 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.0: irq 66, io base 0x00002080
hub 1-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 1-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.1[B] -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 185
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.1 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.1: irq 185, io base 0x00002060
hub 2-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 2-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.2[C] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 177
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.2 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 3
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.2: irq 177, io base 0x00002040
hub 3-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 3-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
Linux agpgart interface v0.101 (c) Dave Jones
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1b.0[A] -> GSI 22 (level, low) -> IRQ 74
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1b.0 to 64
agpgart: Detected an Intel 945G Chipset.
agpgart: Detected 7932K stolen memory.
agpgart: AGP aperture is 256M @ 0x40000000
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:\_SB_.PCI0 evaluate _BBN fail=0x5
shpchp: acpi_shpchprm:get_device PCI ROOT HID fail=0x5
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.3[D] -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 193
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.3 to 64
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: UHCI Host Controller
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 4
uhci_hcd 0000:00:1d.3: irq 193, io base 0x00002020
hub 4-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 4-0:1.0: 2 ports detected
hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2
e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.4.8-k2-NAPI
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2005 Intel Corporation
    ACPI-0212: *** Warning: Device is not power manageable
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:00:1d.7[A] -> GSI 23 (level, low) -> IRQ 66
PCI: Setting latency timer of device 0000:00:1d.7 to 64
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: EHCI Host Controller
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: debug port 1
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 5
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: irq 66, io mem 0x501c4400
PCI: cache line size of 128 is not supported by device 0000:00:1d.7
ehci_hcd 0000:00:1d.7: USB 2.0 initialized, EHCI 1.00, driver 10 Dec 2004
hub 5-0:1.0: USB hub found
hub 5-0:1.0: 8 ports detected
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:08.0[A] -> GSI 20 (level, low) -> IRQ 82
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x50002000, irq 82, MAC addr 00:19:D1:62:BA:D6
usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 2
usbcore: registered new driver hiddev
Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
usbcore: registered new driver usbhid
drivers/usb/input/hid-core.c: v2.01:USB HID core driver
scsi2 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
usb-storage: device found at 2
usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
usbcore: registered new driver usb-storage
USB Mass Storage support registered.
usb 4-2: USB disconnect, address 2
usb 4-2: new low speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3
input: USB HID v1.10 Mouse [Microsoft Microsoft 3-Button Mouse with IntelliEye(TM)] on usb-0000:00:1d.3-2
BIOS EDD facility v0.16 2004-Jun-25, 1 devices found
NET: Registered protocol family 17
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SD Reader     Rev: 1.00
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sdb at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
Attached scsi generic sg1 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 0,  type 0
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB CF Reader     Rev: 1.01
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sdc at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1
Attached scsi generic sg2 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 1,  type 0
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB SM Reader     Rev: 1.02
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sdd at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 2
Attached scsi generic sg3 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 2,  type 0
  Vendor: Generic   Model: USB MS Reader     Rev: 1.03
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 00
Attached scsi removable disk sde at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 3
Attached scsi generic sg4 at scsi2, channel 0, id 0, lun 3,  type 0
usb-storage: device scan complete
eth0: no IPv6 routers present
wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
ACPI: Sleep Button (CM) [SLPB]
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.14 <tigran@veritas.com>
microcode: No new microcode data for CPU0
microcode: No new microcode data for CPU1
IA-32 Microcode Update Driver v1.14 unregistered
powernow: This module only works with AMD K7 CPUs
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
mtrr: 0x40000000,0x10000000 overlaps existing 0x40000000,0x400000
toshiba: not a supported Toshiba laptop

[waterhead]

Thanks

The lspci -nn command should have given a more detailed output. Try it again without the -nn option.

lspci

Post the output again.

[waterhead]

Never mind the lspci output, I have enough.

Here is the wireless card:

06:00.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4318 (rev 02)

And here is the module loaded for it:

Module                  Size  Used by
ndiswrapper           176308  0

And here are the system messages confirming the creation of the wireless wlan0:

ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes)
.....
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5-4318 (Broadcom,05/26/2005, 3.120.27.0) loaded
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:06:00.0[A] -> GSI 21 (level, low) -> IRQ 58
ndiswrapper: using irq 58
NET: Registered protocol family 10
Disabled Privacy Extensions on device c03ba0a0(lo)
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8120 buckets, 64960 max) - 248 bytes per conntrack
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:1a:70:38:b4:95 using driver bcmwl5-4318, configuration file 14E4:4318.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP

It looks to me that all you need to do is to set up the wireless as a new network card. Do this in YaST, and if there is the option (somewhere) in the configuration section to use NetworkManager to control the cards, select yes. It is much easier to use NetworkManager to connect to wireless networks.

I think that you are almost there!

Good Luck

EDIT: NetworkManager will be running in the system tray. Just click on the icon to connect to a network. Give it the needed info, and let it save it to a keyring.