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Thread: HP Pavilion ze4900 Broadcom 802.11b/g Problems

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    HP Pavilion ze4900 Broadcom 802.11b/g Problems

    I have just recently installed Knoppix 4.0.2 onto a HP Pavilion ze4900 Laptop and have been having some problems getting the built in wireless card working.
    I downloaded the drivers for the card (a Broadcom BCM94306 802.11 b/g) from hp's website, extracted bcmwl5.inf and bcmwl5.sys to the /tmp/ directory, and loaded them using ndiswrapper, but I am unsure as to what to do next.
    Code:
    root@SYSINS-MOBILE:/home/Ben# ndiswrapper -i /tmp/bcmwl5.inf
    Installing bcmwl5
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode |0 to IBSSGMode |2
    root@SYSINS-MOBILE:/home/Ben# ndiswrapper -l
    Installed ndis drivers:
    bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
    root@SYSINS-MOBILE:/home/Ben# ndiswrapper -m
    modprobe config already contains alias directive
    root@SYSINS-MOBILE:/home/Ben#
    Any help/sugestions anyone has would be greatly appreciated.

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    You will need to load the ndiswrapper module, connect to your router, and get an IP address.

    Load module:
    Code:
    modprobe ndiswrapper
    Connect to router:
    Code:
    iwconfig wlan0 essid yourssid
    Get IP address:
    Code:
    dhclient wlan0
    or possibly:
    Code:
    dhcpcd -t 10 wlan0

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    I am still having some problems so I decided to start from scratch and boot from the cd, below is how far I got.
    Code:
    root@0[knoppix]# ndiswrapper -i /tmp/bcmwl5.inf
    Installing bcmwl5
    Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode |2
    ^repeated 18 times^
    root@0[knoppix]# ndiswrapper -l
    Installed ndis drivers:
    bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
    root@0[knoppix]# ndiswrapper -m
    Adding "alias wlan0 ndiswrapper" to /etc/modprobe.d/ndiswrapper
    root@0[knoppix]# modprobe ndiswrapper
    root@0[knoppix]# iwconfig wlan0 essid linksys
    Error for wireless request "Set ESSID" (8B1A) :
        Set failed on device wlan0 ; No such device.

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    Can you post the output of iwconfig, after loading the ndiswrapper module?

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    Code:
    root@0[knoppix]# iwconfig
    lo	 no wireless extensions.
    
    eth0  no wireless extensions.

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    Ok I've upgraded to 5.0.1 and gotten a little farther, now iwconfig returns the following for eth0:
    Code:
    IEEE 802.11b/5 ESSID:"linksys" Nickname:"Broadcom 4306"
    Mode:Managed Access Point: Invalid Bit Rate=1 Mb/s
    RTS thr:off Fragment thr:off
    Encryption key:off
    Link Quality:0 Signal level:0 Noise level:0
    Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
    Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0
    The network I am trying to connect to is named "linksys" and is open.

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