[Ndiswrapper-general] Mandrake 10.1 & Broadcom BCM 4306

[Jeff A. <Jef...@am...>]

Hello all,

I am in the midst of configuring Mandrake 10.1 on my Compaq Presario 
3050 laptop.  The laptop has embedded wireless, which is a Broadcom BCM 
4306 802.11b/g card, reported by lspci as follows:

00:09.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g 
Wireless LAN Controller (rev 02)

lspci -n reports:

00:09.0 Class 0280: 14e4:4320 (rev 02)

I installed ndiswrapper using the sourceforge download.  Everything 
seemed to go OK.  I grabbed the driver for the card from here: 
http://www.silfreed.net/download/hpzt3000cto/SP23107A.tar.gz  When I ran 
ndiswrapper -i on the .inf file it didn't complain and it did populate 
the /etc/ndiswrapper directory.  ndiswrapper -l reports:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5a driver present, hardware present

I can run modprobe ndiswrapper with no ill effects and no errors. 
However iwconfig reports no wireless adapters:
lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

eth1      no wireless extensions.

sit0      no wireless extensions.

Looking at the system log I worry that I have the wrong ndiswrapper 
installed.  I see "ndiswrapper version 0.8 loaded" in the log, but I 
would expect version 0.11.  I know Mandrake 10 is supposed to come with 
a version of ndiswrapper, but I don't see it installed: rpm -qa | grep 
ndis returns nothing.

I suspect that this is the problem nonetheless, but I'm not sure how to 
go about fixing it.  Either that or there are problems with power 
management.  Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks.

- Jeff