Hello,

I have an HP Pavilion ZD7000 notebook now running XP Pro & Suse 9.2 . I have configured everything except the wireless radio. I used:

ndiswrapper -i myfile.inf

& it loaded correctly I then ran ndiswrapper -l and it gave me:

bcmwl5 hardware present

then I typed in:

modprobe ndiswrapper

and it gave me no errors.

I then did ndiswrapper -m

I used iwconfig and wlan0 shows up but on ESSID it says None/Any

I tried to set it via iwconfig wlan0 essid myidhere but it didnt do anything. I also did iwlist wlan0 scan but it found nothing.

My notebook has a power on/off button for the Wireless lan but when I tried using the button everything froze and I had to restart the computer. I also go into network devices and it does NOT show this in there.

Please Help!

Ram0135

Hello ram1035,

Welcome to LinuxQuestions.org. The reason it isnt working is because you automated you install with the ndiswrapper -m comand before setting any configuration instructions. You have not set the ssid with:
or any other parameters that may be required by yoiur card to find the AP.
Your best course of action would be an uninstall, listed at the ndiswrapper site followed by a reinstall following the instructions to the leter. You could also just try configuring the interface and running the ndiswrapper -m command again. See if that works
Regards
Chris

Do "ndiswrapper -m" last after other settings.
Try this link http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/history/252969, the reply by " OnceInAWhile ".
This seems to work on almost all my suse wlan installs.

You can use Yast to enter most of the settings, or edit /etc/sysconfig/network/wlan0 file with an editor.

Hello,
Thanks for all your help guys. I actually fixed it by using LinuxAnt's DriverLoader. Thanks for all of your helpful insight though!

Ram0135