Thanks to all that helped and after playing with this for a while, what I determined is that the module was built, installed and loaded properly. I discovered this by turning off all security at my access point and was finally able to make a connection. So, by trial and error, I played around with security settings and discovered that when accessing a secure AP using iwconfig, you must configure the WEP information before specifying ESSID perameters.
iwconfig wlan0 key restricted XXXXXX iwconfig wlan0 essid "mywap" ifup wlan0 All of the documentation that I had found previously was instructing the input of the essid perameters first. This is all I had to change and the configuration works now. Thanks again to all. On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 22:54 -0500, Shreyas Ananthan wrote: > Jordan Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I was wondering if anybody on the list has had any experience getting > > ndiswrapper working with the Broadcom Wireless adapter that comes with > > this laptop. > > I have an Inspiron 5150 with a Broadcom wireless chipset. What does > dmesg tell you? Does it show that the module has been successfully > loaded and the windows driver added? In my machine the message is... > > ---- > ndiswrapper version 1.0rc2 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no) > ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18 > ndiswrapper: using irq 18 > wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:b3:02:40 using driver bcmwl5 > wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP > ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 () added > ---- > > Also in my machine I find that I have to set the key before setting > the essid, so I have to do > > iwconfig wlan0 key restricted xxxxxxxxx > iwconfig wlan0 essid "...." > > If that is successful and you see something like this when you type > iwconfig at the prompt > > ----- > > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"..." > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > Bit Rate:48 Mb/s Tx-Power:13 dBm > RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B > Power Management:off > Link Quality:98/100 Signal level:-40 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:65517 Invalid misc:29062800 Missed beacon:0 > ----- > > try setting static IP by > > ifconfig wlan0 192.168.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 up > route add default gw 192.168.x.1 wlan0 > > and see if you are able to ping your router. > > After "ifconfig wlan0 down", try "dhclient wlan0" > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
