On Thursday 23 June 2005 11:16 am, Mr. Geek wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > > On a HP Presario zv5360us with 768mb of ram and intel cpu, onboard > > wireless and I have been through 3 or 4 tutorials or howto's and using > > ndiswrapper my wireless built in nic is recognized but won't access the > > router. Says "no networks detected". Kwifimanager says I have 54mbps and > > 100% signal but not connected. So has anyone else fought this fight and > > won, and if so, any ideas what I might be doing wrong. I am nearly > > incoherent with this. Oh, maybe that is my normal state, anyway, help is > > appreciated. > > Dennis; Did you try looking at www.zd7000forums.com ? The site is all > about the Z-Series HP laptops and your situation has been asked and > answered about 20 or 30 times. > > There's a good thread on this exact situation here; > > > http://www.zd7000forums.com/viewtopic.php?t=3575&highlight=linux > > If that doesn't do it for you, get back to the list or to me directly. > The guy who posted that solution actually had a few minor things > missing, but a few follow-ups in that thread solved the rest of the issues. > > If you have to resort to ndiswrapper, make sure that the verion matches > your kernel as closely as possible or compile one from source - it takes > about 30 seconds to do and the ndiswrapper site has detailed instructions. > > My HP laptop didn't come equipped with the wireless card installed (it's > the exact same one you have now), which is a mini-pci card that is > installed in the same compartment as your ram. Instead, I picked up a > DLink DWL-AG660 CardBus (PCMCIA) card instead, which works fine with the > linuxant package. > > Your wireless card is probably the Broadcom 94306 Mini-PCI wireless 'G' > card, and a lot of people on the site above have it working like a > charm, so it's definitely a workable card. > > HTH's That did it, thankyou,thankyou,thankyou. I have been trying for a week with various different configurations and the sample ifcfg-wlan0 that was in the forum link did it. Were smokin' at 54mbs and no umbilical. Thanks again. -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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