Wireless in debian 4.0 ETCH

[fonthill]

I have a Belkin 54G PCI wireless card.

Debian acknowledged the card as valid hardware when I installed it on my PC.

What it cannot do, however, is log on to the wireless network, EVEN THOUGH this network can be recognised by the same PC running XP, and also by my Apple MacBook Pro and Airport card.

The configure network screen of the Debian install routine identifies the card as "Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 (AirForce one 54g) 802.11g wireless.

When searching for the wireless network, it fails.

Help appreciated.

Has the card been misidentified? Should I simply start again from within Linux, which installs fine?

Many thanks

[valemon]

Although this chip is supposed to be natively supported, I prefer using ndiswrapper to get it working. What I have done:
Install ndiswrapper
Blacklist bcm43xx module

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist

and add

#broadcom native driver
blacklist bcm43xx

type

rmmod bcm43xx

Then type

ndiswrapper -l

If there are any drivers remove them with "ndiswrapper -e drivername" command. Copy your wireless card's Windows drivers in your home folder (WMP54GS.inf and BCMWL5.sys). Then cd there and type

ndiswrapper -i WMP54GS.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m

where the output of the last command should be

driver present, hardware found

Then type

modprobe ndiswrapper

Restart and configure your wireless (essid, password)
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