Help setting up wireless on HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop

[havoc783]

I Have opensuse 10.2 installed and i'm trying to get the internal wireless card to work. I ran ndiswrapper with a sp32158 driver supplied on the HP website. The internal card is a Broadcom 802.11 b/g WLAN. Please let me know.

[valemon]

So did you installed drivers successfully? Where are you stuck at?
Post the output of lspci and iwconfig

[havoc783]

i ran ndiswrapper, it said it installed the driver (bcmwl5.inf was the file)
but i looked under the ifconfig and nothing shows up that has to do with a WLAN. Only an ethernet and a Link encap: Local Loopback ( a connection attempt by me i think).
my commands went as follows:
-ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf ( while root and in the folder i unpacked the driver install file in)
-ndiswrapper -l to see if installed ( it reported bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware () present(alternative driver ####)
-modprobe ndiswrapper
-lsmod
-ndiswrapper -m (this reported modprobe config already contains alias directive)
-depmod -a
-ifconfig

[william.andrew.lane]

This guy has a really complete set of instructions... I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2 and it works pretty well...

http://nextgen.no-ip.org/%7Eandrew/l...pperinfo10.php

The only thing I differed on is after wrapping you driver you have to restart network devices. I believe you can reactivate the settings/new driver with modprobe ndiswrapper... --- not sure though. Looks like you ran that type of command, but just to be thorough...

Also I used Network Manager vs. Traditional setup with ifup (which he recommends)... I've read that Net. Man. only works like 15% of the time but I've also read that 90% of stats are fabricated. I have more info on the steps I took on my site:

http://anopensourcemind.blogspot.com/

Hope this helps!!

[valemon]

I think you will be ok with that guide. If you get any problems post