Ndiswrapper 1.7 and Broadcom 4306 wireless card

[Mikecore]

I was able to get ndiswrapper installed on my system I even have the driver loaded

Installed drivers:
bcmwl5a         driver present, hardware present

But I can't get an IP from my router at first I was getting this error

ndiswrapper (iw_set_bitrate:520): setting bit rate failed (C00000BB)

I found on the ndiswrapper website and FAQ thats showed me how to set my bit rate

iwpriv wlan0 network_type g

now i tried to manually configure my wlan0 with

iwconfig wlan0 essid "any"
ifconfig wlan0 up
iwlist wlan0 scan

before I set my bit rate it would fial with that "failed to set bit rate" and I couldn't see
any scan results, Now I can see my AP but I still can't get an IP Im not running WEP/WAP and I know this card will work with ndiswrapper cause I was running it under
gentoo just fine.

So my question is how do I request my wlan0 card to get an IP manually
in gentoo i was useing { dhcpcd } I don't know what Fedora uses
then after I see if I can manually request and get an IP how can I make the "Network Device Control" to do it?

P.S. I was running Fedora Core 5 but I changed to 4 for support reasons. incase you have
read my other posts.

[Mikecore]

After looking at the ndisrwapper FAQ somemore I found out that acpi is seting my irq's and it is disabling irq #5
which is the one for my wireless card.

I tried passing at boot

pic=routerirq

and also

acpi=noirq

but that didn't help

how can I prevent it from disabling this IRQ or how can I force it to change the wirelss irq ?

[Mikecore]

Ok I am now making this post off my working wireless connection.

Problem with an ATI audio chipset the snd_atiixp_modem module messes with the snd_atiixp sound card driver. After it fails to load IRQ5 is disabled. and No wireless!

So I had two options

A) recompile my kernel
B) figure a way to stop snd_atiixp_modem from loading.


We This is my first time using Fedora core and I do like alot of things about it. But the Documentation reguarding how everthing works IS FOR ****!!!!! So since I couldn't figure out how to get the kernel source install for my running kernel - and even when i did manage that when I tried to build ndiswrapper from source I kept gettings make errors. cause I didn't install the kernel source correctly "CAUSE THE DOC"S SUCK!!!!!!!!!!" < please forgive my ranting I spent over 4 days getting this laptop working.

Anyhow I ended up speaking with a guru friend of mine and abour an hour later here I am.

I just edited my /lib/modules/<kernel-version>/modules.dep file

I went down to the snd_atiixp_modem line and commented it out.

anyhow I have alot of learning to do over the next few months about how Fedora choose to do stuff. But lest my laptop works!

[heitbwp]

Hey, I have the same problem you had to begin with, I installed the ndiswrapper and driver seemingly without problem. I am able to recognize wireless networks (including my own - it even correctly identifies the access point MAC address), but when I do dmesg to test if everything is alright it says "setting bit rate failed." But I don't get any other errors throughout the setup.

I'm pretty new, so I wasn't entirely sure what to do after installing it so I went to setup wireless network connection and it seems to recognize all the information I've entered, but when I try and activate it - it fails saying "Error: unrecognized wirelss request "Mb/s" - seemingly the bitrate issue again.