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Hi, I have a Dell wireless 1390 in OpenSuse 11 i586, 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae /sbin/lspci: 0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01) I installed the ndiswrapper 1.53 and and ...
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    ndiswrapper - Dell wireless 1390 problem

    Hi,
    I have a Dell wireless 1390 in OpenSuse 11 i586, 2.6.25.5-1.1-pae
    /sbin/lspci:
    0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 01)

    I installed the ndiswrapper 1.53 and and used the instruction in Ndiswrapper - openSUSE
    It seems that the driver is installed correctly
    ndiswrapper -l
    bcmwl5 : driver installed
    device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)

    but my wireless light is not tured on and when I use scan command for my wireless card it says:
    iwlist wlan0 scan
    wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down

    what should I do?

    Thanks,

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    I found the answer! It was in opensuse ndiswrapper help and here:
    Madwifi or Ndiswrapper Wireless Network Drivers - Suse/openSUSE 10, 11 - LAN & Internet access

    If you receive a message like device (2001:3A03) present (alternate driver <driver name>), then you have a possible conflict with a Linux native driver and will need to add the name of the Linux driver into the blacklist file located at /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

    I have added that driver to black list and restart my laptop and it was ok!

    I am now connected with my wireless!!!

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