Still no wireless network on my laptop

[Johan Lozano]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 19:13 -0400, Daniel Normolle wrote: 
> Johan Lozano wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 16:33 -0400, Reuben D. Budiardja wrote:
> > 
> >>On Tuesday 16 August 2005 11:48, Johan Lozano wrote:
> >>
> >>>hi all,
> >>>
> >>>i am trying to install a wireless nic on my acer aspire 5024 wlmi
> >>>without succes.
> >>>is someone succeeded in such an attempt and if so how did you do it?
> >>
> >>>i tried with the original nic a broadcom 4318 with ndiswrapper and the
> >>>linuxant way. nothing helps.
> >>
> >>I've used Broadcom 4318 on a Dell Latitude laptop (built-in NIC) with 
> >>ndiswrapper and it works just fine. 
> >>Your last email on saturday shows that ndiswrapper works with your Broadcome 
> >>4318, ie. you can see the wlan0, all you needed to do was assign an ESSID 
> > 
> > 
> > there is no way to assign an ESSID to this
> > i tried 
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid mbnet
> > iwconfig wlan0 essid "mbnet"
> > i tried by the graphical tool
> > i inserted manually in the configuration
> > file /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/14E4:4318:1468:0312.5.conf
> > i inserted manually in the configuration file
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0
> > nothing helps
> > no manner to get ESSID assigned
> 
> How do you know it was not assigned?
> 
if i set iwconfig wlan0 essid whatever or iwconfig wlan0 essid
"whatever", it keeps on showing the same 
you can see below ESSID keep on showing off/any
        
> Did you try
> 	
> 	/sbin/iwconfig wlan0

after trying al the stuff like described above
the output for /sbin/iwconfig wlan0
root at mbarwen ~]# iwconfig wlan0
        Warning: Driver for device wlan0 recommend version 18 of
        Wireless
        Extension,
        but has been compiled with version 17, therefore some driver
        features
        may not be available...
        
        wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:off/any
        Nickname:"mbarwen.mbd.com"
                  Mode:Auto  Frequency:2.437 GHz  Access Point:
        00:00:00:00:00:00
                  Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm
                  RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
                  Encryption key:off
                  Power Management:off
                  Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-10 dBm  Noise
        level:-256
        dBm
                  Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid
        frag:0
                  Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed
        beacon:0
        
        
        
> 
> You may have somehow set up multiple profiles.  Do you have
> files named ifcfg-wlan0 in subdirectories under /etc/networking?
> If so, do they have the line:
> 
> 	ESSID=your-personal-ESSID
> 
> If such files are present and they do not have that line,
> try correcting them.
> 
> dpn
> 
> 

in the meanwhile i went for a fresh install fc4-i386
(the only thing i am shore off is that the i386 windows drivers are
working.
i made the laptop a dual boot xp-FC4 and under windows the two nics are
working perfectly.)
when i got this going i will try it back on fc4-x84_64 (my laptop has an
amd turion 64 processor.)

but now, when i gif yum install ndiswrapper, why is yum willing to
install the kernel 2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 and his appropriate
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.12-1.1390_FC4 when i just upgraded to
2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 and rebooted?
can that be the problem perhaps?
in kyum demanding yum -y info *ndis* it shows a
kernel-module-ndiswrapper-2.6.12-1.1398_FC4 as well. why doesn't take
yum this one?



Johan Lozano
MicroBit, Duffel
E-mail : johan.lozano at tiscali.be

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