ck81

Hi,

I had referred to these forums before in regard to help with setting up wireless in suse 10.2 linux on a Dell 2200 Inspiron with built in broadcom wireless card (bcmwl5 driver).

I was able to connect earlier but not able to do so. I tried to reconfigure my wireless card by downloading ndiswrapper and going through the necessary steps. My driver is recognised, hardware is recognised and I am get something when I do iwconfig wlan0. I disconnect my eth connection but I am unable to go to any website using browsers. I tried to ping my router and it shows that packets were transferred. I also tried to ping another IP and it shows that packets were transferred successfully. I am not sure why I am unable to go to any website using my browsers.

I would greatly appreciate if anybody can help me out.

Thanks,

Vish

namelessone

Is it possible that you do not have an IP address assigned to your computer?

bluemanfu

Juan Pablo

I believe DNSs are the problem here, since you can ping other computers on your network, try to ping to 66.94.234.13 to confirm

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MikeTbob

Hi bluemanfu and welcome to the forums.
It would make it easier for yourself and everyone else if you started your own thread here http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/wireless-internet/
And yes NDISWrapper is more than likely the file you need.
More than likely, you need to download it on another computer and burn it to a disk if thats possible.

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bluemanfu

How do I find out what the ip add. is.
I found ndiswrapper and downloaded it. Now what? Thanks for replying.

bluemanfu

I was born Ft.Worth,
I did find ndiswrapper and downloaded it but now what?

MikeTbob

Cool Beans!
I wasn't born here, I'm from San Antonio, but I got here as fast as I could. =-}
After downloading ndiswrapper you need to extract it.
Let's say you download it to /home/username/
open a terminal and log in as root
su - (hit enter, then enter root password)
change to the correct directory
cd /home/username
unpack it
tar -zxvf ndiswrapper-version.tar.gz
cd to the newly created directory
cd ndiswrapper-version
then follow these instructions
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...n#Installation

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bluemanfu

Thanks for the info Mike. I'll try it as soon as our company leaves tomorrow. I still have relatives there in Haltom City and around. Merry Christmas to you and yours.
Gary