hp compaq nx6325 wireless problem

[HayZam]

hi all ,

i ve searched alot about how to install my god damn wireless card bcm4311 through most of the forums and nothing worked ...

i am using fedora core 7 , amd64 bits ,

i need help ..

thanks alot

[ppesci]

Nothing worked?.

Did you try with ndiswrapper or bcm43xx-fwcutter?

What problem you had?

[kizwan]

My friend use ndiswrapper for his broadcom BCM4318 and it work. He have tried bcm43xx-fwcutter, but it seem not working, not detect any AP at all. I don't know why. But my friend's card is mini-pci not mini-pci-express, which is older design, and for me it is 100% compatible for free OS, including hacked mac os x, hypothetically speaking. Do you guys know which card is actually supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter?

[VisezTrance]

Originally Posted by kizwan

Do you guys know which card is actually supported by bcm43xx-fwcutter?

Please visit http://linuxwireless.org/

[HayZam]

well , i tried ndiswrapper ...

wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R140747.EXE -c

# unzip R140747.EXE
# cd DRIVER
# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: bcm43xx)

# ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive


# modprobe --remove bcm43xx

# modprobe ndiswrapper

and it just didnt work ...

[donthetech]

Hi,

Another alternative is Driverloader from Linuxant, I had real trouble with the BCM 43XX drivers for my Compaq V2000 laptop...For the most part, there is a little work you have to do, but it practically automated the install....I believe there was a small charge for the software, but it was worth it to me.. Every time Fedora updates it's kernel, I use the installation software to update the driver. I never tried fwcutter because it limits your throughput to 11Mbps....

Hope this helps...

Don

[VisezTrance]

I have an nx7300 using F7 64 bits too. The wireless device was not present in system-config-network, however, i could "see" it with ifconfig. If this is your case, you might want to configure it oldschool - from the command line (dhclient wlan0 etc..). A side effect was that fedora's default firewall, didn't knew about this network interface so, it blocked it complety, thus i couldn't ping anything, so I had to use another firewall.

Hope this helps.

[kizwan]

Originally Posted by HayZam

well , i tried ndiswrapper ...



and it just didnt work ...

Please post "dmesg" message after you do "modprobe ndiswrapper".

[HayZam]

is that what you want ?!

[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
driver bcmwl5 is already installed
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -l
bcmwl5 : driver installed
device (14E4:4311) present (alternate driver: ssb)
[root@localhost ~]# ndiswrapper -m
module configuration already contains alias directive

[root@localhost ~]# modprobe --remove bcm43xx
[root@localhost ~]# modprobe ndiswrapper
FATAL: Module ndiswrapper not found.
[root@localhost ~]#

[HayZam]

Originally Posted by VisezTrance

I have an nx7300 using F7 64 bits too. The wireless device was not present in system-config-network, however, i could "see" it with ifconfig. If this is your case, you might want to configure it oldschool - from the command line (dhclient wlan0 etc..). A side effect was that fedora's default firewall, didn't knew about this network interface so, it blocked it complety, thus i couldn't ping anything, so I had to use another firewall.

Hope this helps.

can you plz describe what have you done step by step ?!

[ppesci]

Simply you don't have the ndiswrapper module, may be you instaled it for another kernel

To see what kernel has ndiswrapper, as root, type:

locate ndiswrapper|grep /lib/modules

HTH

[HayZam]

then what !? i dont know what to do

[root@localhost ~]# locate ndiswrapper|grep /lib/modules
/lib/modules/2.6.22.7-85.fc7/extra/ndiswrapper
/lib/modules/2.6.22.7-85.fc7/extra/ndiswrapper/ndiswrapper.ko
[root@localhost ~]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 2.6.22.9-91.fc7 #1 SMP Thu Sep 27 20:47:39 EDT 2007 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost ~]#

[ppesci]

ok, you must install kmod-ndiswrapper for your current kernel, or probe the kernel 2.6.22.7-85 youhave to see if ndiswrapper works.

Whatever you want.
To install ndiswrapper in your current kernel, use yumex or pirut or yum command
To probe ndiswrapper in the kernel 2.6.22.7-85, yust restart your comp and choose in grub menu the kernel.

HTH

[HayZam]

no , i prefer to install on the new kernel ... and step by step together , if u dont mind

[ppesci]

As root and in a terminal type:

yum install kmod-ndiswrapper-1.46-1.2.6.22.9_91.fc7

and that's all, then do:

modprobe ndiswrapper

HTH