Hey ReinerKa (or anybody else) could you give me a link that would help me on getting the wireless drivers for FC5 64?

Can't remember where I got the driver from. It's the generic bcmwl5 driver and using ti with ndiswrapper. I had to download ndiswrapper and build it myself (simple to do). Only problem is that it has to be rebuild and reinstalled with each update of the kernel as I could not find a prebuilt package for it.

You might have to google around a bit to find it.

Reiner

whenever i do
make
make install
in the ndiswrapper folder it gives me the error
"Can't find kernel source files in /usr/bin/kernels/;
give the path to kernel sources directory with
KSRC=<path> argument to make"
the wireless is the only thing that i haven't got working on this laptop, its like i'm so close yet so far

ok scratch that i got ndiswrapper to install the drivers and to alias it, but how do i actually go about enabling it

I have the same mx. If running 64bit and the driver is correctly installed (check by running sudo ndiswrapper -l) the wireless light should be on. If x86 then the light will reflect network traffic.

Use use ndiswrapper run:
#sudo ndiswrapper -m
#sudo depmod -ae
#sudo modprobe ndiswrapper
#sudo iwconfig wlan0 essid 'YOUR ESSID'
#sudo dhclient wlan0


That should do it

alright apparently ndiswrapper isn't installed so go back to my last post with the error it gave me while trying to install

ok in the network configuration it shows my eth0 and says ok for status, it also shows my wireless as wlan0 and says configured for status, my wireless light isn't on and when i try "ifconfig wlan0 up" it says "wlan0: unknown interface: No such device". Also under devices it shows it as well as being inactive, when i click activate on it it says "ndiswrapper device wlan0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization.", again my wireless light is not on, but when i do ndiswrapper -l it says driver installed hardware present. What do i do now?

If you type iwconfig at the command line, what is the output?

I at first had problems with some confusion between the eth and wlan which required me to edit /etc/iftab. ALso what is the output of that file when you cat it?

iwconfig brought up

lo no wireless extensions

eth0 no wireless extensions

sit0 no wireless extensions

there was no /etc/iftab file
when i did a locate for iftab it showed me
"/usr/share/man/man5/iftab.5.gz"
should i try unzipping that file to /etc ?

So generally sit0 is for a pcmcia card. I take it then that you have one?

Try doing ndiswrapper -m it should complain about there already being an alias for it and mention something about wlan0 (at least it does on mine).

You are running fedora? I'm running Ubuntu, so /etc/iftab is debian specific.

You might want to see if there is a wlan file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. If not you will need to create one.

add mandriva 2006 to the list of distros that support this laptop. The sound didn't work at 1st, but you just open kmix and turn off the external amp and it works. Its has a nice gui for ndiswrapper and the drivers can be found on gateways website or broadcoms website. i'm using the 32 bit version so i could get both java and flash working. It also supports mp3s "out of the box" unlike fedora. Few problems though if anybody could help i'd appreciate it. The typing is acting like it does with a live cd. Sometimes if u just push a key once it types it like 7 times. The wireless turns on my wireless light, its shows the different netwworks, but all the signals only have one bar. It will connect to unsecured networks, and even mine after typing in the network key, but its like the connection isn't even there, neither firefox nor limewire connects (wired wworks). I was also wondering if anybody knew how to set up the openGL for this laptop. I would like to plaay chromium.

Hi,
Has anybody had any success getting the wireless to work on this machine with FC6? I installed the ndiswrapper and followed all the steps but I still see broadcom in lspci. Any help is greatly appreciated, and my apologies if this has already been resolved. I've wasted the whole long weekend on this pos.

lspci | grep -i broadcom
03:07.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4318 [AirForce One 54g] 802.11g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

ndiswrapper -l
installed drivers:
bcmwl5 driver installed, hardware (14E4:4318) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)

You need to get rid of this (alternate driver: bcm43xx)
rmmod bcm43xx
modprobe ndiswrapper
there are lots of posts around about it.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q...=Google+Search