Need help setting up Belkin Wireless G PCMCIA card

Forum: Networking
Topic: Need help setting up Belkin Wireless G PCMCIA card
started by: v38zy

Posted by v38zy on May 31 2005,15:51

Hi,

I am setting up DSL for the first time on an old laptop. The problem that I have is that DSL doesn't seem to recognize my Belkin Wireless G notebook adapter...

The (shortened) output from lspci:

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...
0000:02:00.0 8000: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 08)

I then copied the windows driver from the driver installation cd to ~.

I installed the driver via:

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ndiswrapper -i ~/bcmwl5.inf

The output from ndiswrapper -l is now:

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bcmwl5 hardware present,fuzzy

What does fuzzy mean??

At this point I ran: ndiswrapper -m followed by modprobe ndiswrapper...

But the system still doesn't seem to recognize my card...

What am I doing wrong here? I read many of the previous posts and tried to follow the instructions provided there. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Posted by v38zy on June 03 2005,03:10

Update...

I moved the card to the cardbus slot 0, and now the output of ndiswrapper -l is:

bcmwl5 hardware present

But I don't know what to do from this point...

Any ideas would really be appreciated.

Thanka

Posted by ke4nt1 on June 03 2005,05:25

v38zy de ke4nt

This ndiswrapper page describes using the " a " version of that driver.
< http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/phpwiki....9dfec73 >
Here is the text..

Card: Belkin F5D7011 802.11g PCMCIA Wireless LAN Adapter
Chipset: Broadcom 94306
pciid: 14e4:4320
Driver: Dell < http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R81433.EXE >
Other: Fedora Core 3 w/ Ndiswrapper 0.11. Download the exe, unzip it with "unzip -a" and use the bcmwl5a.inf in directory AR.

Using the bcmwl5a.inf may help..

What to do from here..??

Copy both the .inf file, and the .sys file into your /home/dsl directory.
then use the ndiswrapper tool in the DSLPanel..
Follow the promps for the boxes, using /home/dsl/bcmwl5a.inf
for your .inf file source, add your ssid ( if any ) , your channel ,
and your wepkey in hex. ( if any )

64 bit = XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ( 5 colon separated pairs of data )
128 bit = XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ( 13 pairs )
I use all caps.. YMMV ..

73
ke4nt

Posted by v38zy on June 03 2005,17:52

Thanks for the help ke4nt1, but I have already tried both driver versions (along with several others I found on the net..).

At this point, I don't think that ndiswrapper is recognizing the driver because all the descriptions that I have seen list the ouput of ndiswrapper -l as:

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bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present

whereas I get:

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bcmwl5 hardware present

The *.inf file is located in the /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5 directory... but ndiswrapper doesn't lit the driver as being present.

Any ideas?

Thanks