[Ndiswrapper-general] problems with Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 and version 0.6 of ndiswrapper

[David <da...@us...>]

Hi!... this is my first message to this mailing list... and here it is my=20
problem...

I'm the owner of a hp laptop model: zd7050ea, and I installed a Linux Gento=
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2004.0 in it the other day... since my wireless card: Broadcom Corporation=
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BCM94306 (it comes integrated into the laptop) is not soported by the=20
manufacter under linux I tried to use ndiswrapper without luck.

lspci shows this:
02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)

My computer has a PIV procesor with SMP enabled (HyperThreathing).  After=20
istalling the ndiswrapper 0.6 under a kernel: 2.6.3 the system seems to fin=
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the wireless card witout any problem. I can see that ndiswrapper detects th=
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card and activate a network inteface wlan0.

My problem seems to be connect with my wireless router... It is configuring=
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using essid and a key of 128 bit, if I use iwlist wlan0 scan I can see my=20
wireless router... but when I do: iwconfig essid MYESSSID key s:MYWIRELESSK=
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seems not to work... a dmesg show this:=20

NdisMCancelTimer
NdisMCancelTimer

Using Linuxant driverloader and the same iwconfig parametres all seems to w=
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ok!... can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong??

Thanks!!

David Garc=EDa P=E9rez