broadcom wlan

[Xalu]

ok ive follwed a couple of post and isntalled the drivers with ndiswrapper. its telling me

[root@localhost ~]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
[root@localhost ~]#



but then i get this when i try to use it,ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.

ive set it to activate during boot. im not sure what my next step should be. any help much appreaciated. Thanks

Xalu

[Xalu]

bump bump bump

[smfinley]

The wireless LAN section of this article (http://stanton-finley.net/HP_Pavilion_ZE2108WM.html) may help.

[Xalu]

Thanks but thats almost the same install guide i followed everything checks out fine except it wont activate from my network setup

[d_GeNeRiT]

I am following the guide that Stanton Finley has posted. Everything is fine until the step where he says:
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As root do "ndiswrapper -m". You should see:

Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.conf
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But when I do it it says:

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.9]# /usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -l
Installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present

[root@localhost ndiswrapper-1.9]# ndiswrapper -m
bash: ndiswrapper: command not found

Can anyone advise what I did wrong? I am having a HELL of a time getting wireless to work on this Compaq V2000 with AMD Turion64 ML-28 cpu. Here is my kernel info:

[alleycat@localhost ~]$ uname -rm
2.6.15-1.1830_FC4 x86_64

Yum updated this without my permission and I am having all kinds of trouble since the kernel is too new and most things are for the i686 kernel. I must admit I am so FRUSTRATED with this laptop. I have only been using Linux for 3 weeks but everything on my Desktop PC just hums along whereas this laptop has an issue with every single little thing. I have been up for hours working on this laptop. I got no sleep last night, hours and hours getting this thing to work right. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Im writing a guide for linux-on-laptops as I work here.

[smfinley]

Try "/usr/sbin/ndiswrapper -m" as root.

[d_GeNeRiT]

Thanks Stan for the prompt reply. By the way your install notes from your website are the most helpful thing I have ever found. You really should consider writing a book and getting published.

I had to take a break for awhile. I was getting too pissed off. :o) 8 hours straight working on that laptop with no food or breaks. I must have entered my root password over a hundred times in all. Sometimes its best to walk away froma while and come back fresh.

I had issues running the command lspci -v

Every time I run lspci from the command line it says "command not found"

So I just installed the same driver as your tutorial states but that was a dumb move since I have a Compaq with probably a different card altogether. Without being able to run lspci I didnt know which card I had.

So I completed your instructions and went thru the network configuration wizard but no dice. I probably have the wrong driver.

Can somebody please advise how to remove what i have done and start over from scratch? I ran make uninstall from inside the directory but It warned me that it was not able to clean everything up since different distros put files in different paths.

Perhaps I can leave ndswrapper alone but I need to remove that driver from Acer.

I really appreciate the help. I really hope I can get this fixed so I can create a tutorial on linus-for-laptops to help others.

[smfinley]

Search for BCM94318 on this page (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/List), download the driver, unzip it, process it for ndiswrapper similar to the procedure outlined in the wireless LAN section here (http://stanton-finley.net/HP_Pavilion_ZE2108WM.html).

[d_GeNeRiT]

Cool,

Thanks. I got it working now. Thanks for all the help. I accomplished more in 30 minutes with advice than 8 hours on my own. LoL

Now I am just trying to tweak it so that when i press the little button with the light on it it will deactivate the Wireless and Activate it again on next press. I pressed the button and it hung the machine in Linux. I had to hold the power button in for 10 seconds to power off the laptop and then turn it back on.

Well, Im sure I will figure it out but thank you so much for helping me connect.