Hi Ken, Thanks for the reply. Bas van Besouw emailed me that he'd had success with linuxant's driverloader. I have since installed driverloader and used it to load the 64 bit Acer drivers linked to your page. I've had moderate success in that driverloader accepts the INF and SYS files and brings up an eth1 interface. I can run iwconfig to query it and I can also do an
iwlist eth1 scan which correctly finds my AP. I set my essid, set mode Managed and then issue a dhclient eth1 which sends out a whole bunch of DHCPDISCOVERs, but no offers are received. Much the same happens when I use the other 64bit acer drivers I downloaded "80211g.zip". Under Windows XP I can successfully connect to my AP with the same machine. The same goes for ndiswrapper and the 32 bit drivers shipped with the machine under Debian i386--work flawlessly. I have tried fixing the channel number with iwconfig, setting up the correct interface in /etc/network/interfaces (and bringing up eth1 with ifup eth1), turning off MAC filtering on my AP and still I cannot connect (get an IP). (I am not using encryption.) I also re-tried ndiswrapper with the acer drivers linked from your page and they fail to load. Any other suggestions would be most welcome. My interfaces stanza goes like this # wireless lan home iface eth1 inet dhcp wireless-mode Managed wireless-essid default # default is my essid name at home Thanks. Richard On Monday 17 October 2005 17:47, Ken Bloom wrote: > Richard Mace wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I recently bought an HP nx6125 laptop and have successfully installed > > Debian-amd64 on it. I have been monitoring this list for the past month > > or so, before I bought the laptop, and after further extensive googling I > > still cannot find the solution. > > > > I first installed Debian 32 bit on this machine and was able to get > > wireless working flawlessly using ndiswrapper and the WinXP Broadcom > > drivers supplied with the machine. Due to the double clock speed problem > > and enthusiasm for the amd64 port, I decided to try out the 64 bit > > version of Debian. Installation was a breeze, and I am now trying to get > > wireless working under amd64 (using ndiswrapper and the 64 bit drivers). > > > > I have tried the generic Broadcom drivers from linuxant and although > > they install with ndiswrapper -i, doing an ndiswrapper -l gives: > > netbc564 driver present > > but no hardware present. iwconfig does not show any wlan0 device :-( > > > > So, I tried the acer drivers for the Broadcom 4318 chipset. Now > > ndiswrapper -l gives: > > Installed ndis drivers: > > bcmwl5 invalid driver! > > Are you sure you downloaded 64-bit drivers? Try downloading again, using > the link from my page > http://www.iit.edu/~kbloom1/Main/Compaq_Presario_v2310us > > --Ken Bloom > > > -- > I usually have a GPG digital signature included as an attachment. > See http://www.gnupg.org/ for info about these digital signatures. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
