Problem in my wireless

[napx]

Hi all,
My wireless doesn't work well. My wireless card is BCM4321 I think. I did following:

Downloaded R140746.EXE from http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140746.EXE
unzip R140746.EXE
ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper

Then in Wireless Assistant my router is listed. The name, channel, WEP/WPA and AP are all correct. However I cannot connect to it. It always shows "Connection failed". I'm sure my key is correct.
Please help me.

Thank you.


#lsmod
Module Size Used by
ssb 37828 0
ndiswrapper 215792 0
fuse 51328 6
nvidia 7788304 29

#lspci
...
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)

#cat modprobe.conf
alias wlan0 ndiswrapper

[stoat]

#lspci
...
03:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)Hello napx,

priyadarshanh just went through all of that with the same chipset in another thread here (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205220). The thread is a little bit disorganized at first, but by the end of the thread the wireless connection is working, and the steps were fairly well sorted out and documented. Read through that stuff and see if you get any ideas for things you haven't tried. But read it to the end first. At the beginning, priyadarshanh was thrashing around a bit.

[napx]

Hello napx,

priyadarshanh just went through all of that with the same chipset in another thread here (http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=205220). The thread is a little bit disorganized at first, but by the end of the thread the wireless connection is working, and the steps were fairly well sorted out and documented. Read through that stuff and see if you get any ideas for things you haven't tried. But read it to the end first. At the beginning, priyadarshanh was thrashing around a bit.
Hi stoat,

Sorry to forget to tell that I followed what that thread told but still fail. Thank for your advice.

[stoat]

Well, here are some things to check on what you've done so far...Confirm that the driver was properly installed with this: ndiswrapper -l
Reboot and confirm that the ndiswrapper module is automatically being loaded with this: /sbin/lsmod | sort

NOTE: The ndiswrapper module should be in the list of modules and the b43 module should not be. I know that you already posted an lsmod report, but that could have been run right after modprobe ndiswrapper which will temporarily load the module, and your posted lsmod information didn't answer the question about the native Broadcom driver.
If those things confirm that the driver is properly installed and the ndiswrapper module is being loaded at boot time, then some sort of random ideas... Try blacklisting the ssb driver.
Try using NetworkManager to establish a connection. Do you have anything against NM?

[napx]

OK It works. I just let NM manage wired and wireless network and then it can connect both.