The laptop is running beautifully FC5. The card is not supported officially. I thought ndiswrapper is a safer solution.
Cheers, Adrian. On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 15:11 +1200, Nick Rout wrote: > 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 > > >
