On Fri, 09 Jun 2006 14:58:54 +1200 Adrian Mageanu wrote: > Hi > > I bought my daughter a second hand ferrari amd 2500+ XP with wireless: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# lspci | grep -i wireless > 00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g > Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) >
I think there is support for that card in the kernel now! > > The configuration is ndiswrapper and NetworkManager for easy switching > connections. > > ndiswrapper is configured ok, or so I think based on this: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ndiswrapper -l > Installed drivers: > bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware present > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# iwconfig wlan0 > wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"home" > Mode:Ad-Hoc Frequency:2.462 GHz Cell: YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY > Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:14 dBm > RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B > Encryption key:off > Power Management:off > Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-57 dBm Noise level:-256 > dBm > Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0 > Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0 > > > > With NetworkManager applet I can configure the wireless connection and > the connection is established (100%). However the connection is lost as > soon as I reboot the laptop and I cannot connect to the router to go on > the net. This is what I get from ifconfig: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ifconfig wlan0 > wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > inet addr:169.254.129.38 Bcast:169.254.255.255 > Mask:255.255.0.0 > inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:13 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:918 (918.0 b) > Interrupt:11 Memory:d0004000-d0006000 > > Where could that IP address come from? Link local address provided when there is no address available from dhcp - google zeroconf. It is not a real IP address, it is reserved for just this sort of thing. >The router is set as DHCP server > but the range is wrong. > > The wireless card is ok, I could connect to the router and browse the > net while M$XP was installed on it. > > ndiswrapper is installed from source according to > http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/mediawiki/index.php/Installation and > all verifications passed. Or so I think. > > The router is using for wireless 802.11/g with WPA-TSK / TKIP > > Any clues? > seems to me that ndiswrapper id not properly starting on reboot. You don't mention a distro (I think) > > Cheers, > > Adrian > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
