Re: Ndiswrapper and SID on Inspiron 5160 - RESOLVED

[Jordan Smith <jsmith@tripyramid.net>]

Thanks to all that helped and after playing with this for a while, what
I determined is that the module was built, installed and loaded
properly.  I discovered this by turning off all security at my access
point and was finally able to make a connection.  So, by trial and
error, I played around with security settings and discovered that when
accessing a secure AP using iwconfig, you must configure the WEP
information before specifying ESSID perameters. 

iwconfig wlan0 key restricted XXXXXX
iwconfig wlan0 essid "mywap" 

ifup wlan0 

All of the documentation that I had found previously was instructing the
input of the essid perameters first.  

This is all I had to change and the configuration works now.

Thanks again to all. 

On Tue, 2005-03-15 at 22:54 -0500, Shreyas Ananthan wrote:
> Jordan Smith <jsmith@tripyramid.net> writes:
> 
> > I was wondering if anybody on the list has had any experience getting
> > ndiswrapper working with the Broadcom Wireless adapter that comes with
> > this laptop. 
> 
> I have an Inspiron 5150 with a Broadcom wireless chipset. What does
> dmesg tell you? Does it show that the module has been successfully
> loaded and the windows driver added? In my machine the message is...
> 
> ----
> ndiswrapper version 1.0rc2 loaded (preempt=yes,smp=no)
> ACPI: PCI interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 18
> ndiswrapper: using irq 18
> wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:b3:02:40 using driver bcmwl5
> wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP
> ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 () added
> ----
> 
> Also in my machine I find that I have to set the key before setting
> the essid, so I have to do 
> 
> iwconfig wlan0 key restricted xxxxxxxxx
> iwconfig wlan0 essid "...."
> 
> If that is successful and you see something like this when you type
> iwconfig at the prompt
> 
> -----
> 
> wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"..."  
>           Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 
>           Bit Rate:48 Mb/s   Tx-Power:13 dBm   
>           RTS thr:2347 B   Fragment thr:2346 B   
>           Power Management:off
>           Link Quality:98/100  Signal level:-40 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
>           Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
>           Tx excessive retries:65517  Invalid misc:29062800   Missed beacon:0
> -----
> 
> try setting static IP by 
> 
> ifconfig wlan0 192.168.x.x netmask 255.255.255.0 up 
> route add default gw 192.168.x.1 wlan0 
> 
> and see if you are able to ping your router. 
> 
> After "ifconfig wlan0 down", try "dhclient wlan0" 
> 
>