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Help i have suse 10.3 installed on a new compaq laptop I cannot get wireless working with either the installed drivers or via ndiswrapper the wireless is active (bcm431 but ...
  1. 01-02-2008 #1
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    bcm4318 Suse 10.3

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    i have suse 10.3 installed on a new compaq laptop I cannot get wireless working with either the installed drivers or via ndiswrapper the wireless is active (bcm431 but does not see any networks,
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    I always prefer using ndiswrapper with this chipset. Post the output of
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    lspci 
ndiswrapper -l 
iwconfig
lsmod | grep ndiswrapper 
lsmod | grep bcm43xx
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  3. 01-03-2008 #3
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    I have used the windows driver file bcmwl5.inf file for ndiswrapper before.
    Look on the compaq web site for drivers for your computers wireless card and unzip it to find the file.

    And the Howto from here.

    Ndiswrapper howto - openSUSE
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    Thnks for tha kr4ey,
    Thing is I know how to install ndiswrapper (it works on my other machines)
    problem is on this one the Suse drivers light up the network card but do not connect to a network - Ndiswrapper simply does not work.
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    If you could post more information maybe I was able to help you with this.
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    linux-c37r:~ # lspci
    00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0547 (rev a2)
    00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0548 (rev a2)
    00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0542 (rev a2)
    00:01.2 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0541 (rev a2)
    00:01.3 Co-processor: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0543 (rev a2)
    00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
    00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
    00:04.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 OHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev a2)
    00:04.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation MCP67 EHCI USB 2.0 Controller (rev a2)
    00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation MCP67 IDE Controller (rev a1)
    00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP67 High Definition Audio (rev a1)
    00:08.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0561 (rev a2)
    00:09.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0550 (rev a2)
    00:0a.0 Ethernet controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 054c (rev a2)
    00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0563 (rev a2)
    00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0563 (rev a2)
    00:12.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Unknown device 0531 (rev a2)
    00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
    00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
    00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
    00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
    02:05.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
    02:05.1 Generic system peripheral [Class 0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 22)
    02:05.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 12)
    02:05.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 12)
    02:05.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
    03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11a/b/g (rev 02)
    linux-c37r:~ #

    linux-c37r:~ # ndiswrapper -l
    bcmwl5 : driver installed


    linux-c37r:~ # iwconfig
    lo no wireless extensions.

    eth0 no wireless extensions.

    linux-c37r:~ # lsmod | grep ndiswrapper
    linux-c37r:~ #

    linux-c37r:~ # lsmod | grep bcm43xx
    linux-c37r:~ #

    it appears that ndiswrapper is not loading anything.
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    Sorry turns out this is a bcm4312 and it appears I'm not the only one with difficulties - maybe I will get a cheap usb until the drivers are sorted out for this one.
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    First, the ndiswrapper module does not seem to be loaded and you don't get a "device present" in ndiswrapper -l.

    edit: see what lsmod | grep b43 outputs
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    Just reloaded ndiwrapper 1.51

    linux-c37r:/home/phil/Desktop/Linux/ndiswrapper-1.51 # ndiswrapper -l
    bcmwl5 : driver installed
    linux-c37r:/home/phil/Desktop/Linux/ndiswrapper-1.51 # lsmod | grep b43
    linux-c37r:/home/phil/Desktop/Linux/ndiswrapper-1.51 #

    as you can see it tells me the driver is installed but does not seem to find a device
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    This is a post of ndis install

    /Desktop/wireless/bcmwl5.inf
    installing bcmwl5 ...
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
    forcing parameter IBSSGMode from 0 to 2
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