Re: [Ndiswrapper-general] broadcom 4320 on an hp pavilion zx5000 laptop

[Patrick v. Z. <pa...@va...>]

On Mon, 19 Apr 2004 16:23:00 -0500 (CDT)
wi...@si... wrote:

> I have a broadcom 4320 mini-pci wireless B/G on on this laptop. Using
> ndiswrapper 0.6 and bcmwl5 drivers with the init file results a dmesg:
[snip]
> ifconfig also shows the same info for wlan0.
> 
> I'm assmuming that the card has been detected correctly. However, the
> interface doesn't appear to be on since the backlit LED button doesn't
> blink on when the driver is loaded. Pushing the button does not result it
> in being on. Trying to set parameters and getting the unit up with
> iwconfig/ifconfig obviously does not work.
> I'm guessing that the driver is loaded but it fails to turn on the card.
> The card appears to be turned on through software, as it stays off until
> Windows loads up the appropriate driver. Is there a setting in the .inf
> file I need to change in order to get the thing turned on?

There is. The thing you could do is to look at the inf file you used to install the driver with. In the top part it has an explanation of all the settings you can set with their default values.
Then just edit the conf file for your card in /etc/ndsiwrapper/yourcard/yourconf.conf.

As an example you could take a look at the attached tgz (included at mailinglist). It contains my configuration for a Belkin 54G card with the broadcom 4320 chipset rev 3.
Also in it is the driver i load with ndiswrapper.

HTH,

Patrick

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