Wireless Card

[Visuthan]

Hi,
I just installed openSUSE 10.3 on my acer laptop [it's a 5100-5023 Aspire].

I'm a new to Linux.

The wireless adapter I'm using is a Broadcom Wireless adapter and works fine with Windows.

I'm not able to connect to any wireless network though.

I think Linux identified the adapter and has installed some sort of driver but I just don't seem to know how to connect to a network.

The gnome network manager is enabled.

Would Linux show a list of networks available like Windows does or do I need to know the exact SSID of the network I want to connect to?

Any help would be appreciated.

Vivek

[waterhead]

Hi, I'll try to explain things, but first read through these two tutorials.
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...lan-linux.html
http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wir...d-work-wi.html

The driver that is loaded automatically is most likely the bcm43xx module. You can confirm this by entering this in a terminal (as root) and looking for it in the output.

# lsmod

This module requires more configuring to work properly, but I recommend removing it and using the NDISwrapper module instead.To remove it enter this.

modprobe -r bcm43xx

You now can install NDISwrapper. You can use the YaST GUI, or the terminal.

# yast install ndiswrapper

That's all that I'll throw at you for now. Digest this and post back when you need more help.

[Visuthan]

Hi Paul,
I tried what you told.

I followed one of the articles that you had referd to.

Well I used ndiswrapper and installed the driver too.

 linux-aqn6:/home/visuthan # ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
        device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx) 
  

but I get this message when I try the 'dmesg' part

ndiswrapper version 1.47 loaded (smp=yes)
ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:150): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B
ndiswrapper (load_sys_files:216): couldn't prepare driver 'bcmwl5'
ndiswrapper (load_wrap_driver:118): couldn't load driver bcmwl5; check system log for messages from 'loadndisdriver'
usbcore: registered new interface driver ndiswrapper
SFW2-INext-DROP-DEFLT IN=eth1 OUT= MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:13:a3:6f:a1:4b:08:00 SRC=192.168.2.1 DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=28 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=27236 PROTO=2

Can I do anything about this?

Vivek

[waterhead]

I think that this says it all:

ndiswrapper (check_nt_hdr:150): kernel is 64-bit, but Windows driver is not 64-bit;bad magic: 010B

When you use a 64-bit operating system, you need to use 64-bit drivers.