Re: Wireless on an Acer Aspire 3610

[Juanjavier Martínez <debian@juanjaviermartinez.com>]

> Ndiswrapper is a workaround to use Windows drivers for wireless card in Linux. So dowload the Windows driver from acer.com <http://acer.com>
> and unpack it let's say i /tmp/wifi. Then move to the /tmp/wifi and as root: 
>
> ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
>
> ndiswrapper -l
>
> modprobe ndiswrapper
>
> Now you can see at the end of dmesg, that your wireless card is enabled and ready to go. Now is time for acer_acpi (as root):
>  
>
> modprobe acer_acpi 
>
> echo "enabled : 1" >> /proc/acpi/acer/wirelessled
>
> Now you can use iwconfig to enjoy wireless networking.
Martin: Are you an angel?

Worked flawlessly. No more messing around needed.  Pity is I haven't still got a wireless router

just to test it out 'for  real', but after playing all the stuff you suggested I simply typed:

dhclient wlan0

and wireless gently starts to search in the air, which clearly shows it works!!!

> (...)
>
> Listening on LPF/wlan0(00:14:a4:25:bd:3b
>
> Sending on LPF/wlan0(00:14:a4:25:bd:3b
>
> Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
>
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
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> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
>
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
>
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
>
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
>
> DHCPDISCOVER on wlan0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
>
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
>
> No working leases in persistent database.
>
> Sleeping.
>
>  

...for something that doesn't find; since my router is not wireless.

So no connection is made at all....but the driver is fluently working and the wireless works....

So a huge *thank you so much* to you.

I will keep posting whenever I find a wireless router...or borrow it from someone....;-P

Cheers,

Juanjavier Martínez.