Reply With QuoteSorry for not being clear I was in a rush above. I don't see any APs at all, none show up on the scan. When I go into windows, my card scans a lot of networks but when I scan on linux it says no networks detected.
So from what I understand, you see the AP's at work, but not the ones at home?
You say there should be multiple AP's available at home. How do you know this? Do they appear available if you boot into Windows?
Sorry for not being clear I was in a rush above. I don't see any APs at all, none show up on the scan. When I go into windows, my card scans a lot of networks but when I scan on linux it says no networks detected.
try:
~> ifconfig wlan0 up
~> iwlist wlan0 scan
tried commands, still no scan results
What does 'iwconfig wlan0' show ?
what does 'dmesg' tell you when you load ndiswrapper ?
linux:/home/sean # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSIDff/any
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Encryption key
Power Management
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-10 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:4593 Missed beacon:0
linux:/home/sean # dmesg | grep "ndiswrapper"
ndiswrapper: module not supported by Novell, setting U taint flag.
ndiswrapper version 1.2 loaded (preempt=no,smp=no)
ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/20/2004, 3.70.22.0) loaded
ndiswrapper: using irq 5
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4c:1f:9b:f1 using driver bcmwl5, config uration file 14E4:4320:103C:12F4.5.conf
hmmm... according to http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/m...dex.php/List#B it should work, but then again the latest release is version 1.7, and theres quite some time from version 1.2 to 1.7, so maybe they've resolved some issues in the meantime.
You *could* try compiling ndiswrapper from source. However I wasn't able to compile anything in SUSE. You could also try some other package management systems, like apt or yum. Theyre both included in SUSE.
apt-get install ndiswrapper
If it still gives you the old version, try putting more repos in /etc/apt/sources.list
hope it helps,
Aljosha
TryCheck this guide for setting up Ndiswrapper on SuSE 10.Code:yast -i km_ndiswrapper
Also check these links on the SuSE forums.
wireless network help
Ndiswrapper Information
Installing Ndiswrapper
Or try the guide provided for SuSE 9.2 on their wiki.
Or try removing the version of Ndiswrapper you have (older version) and installing the newer one from scratch (I know it was failing to compile earlier, but it seems you were missing some development libraries you might have now.)
well, I installed ndiswrapper-1.7 and configured wlan0 so now it shows up on the GUI toolbar with eth0 which I have never achieved before... but I am still getting the same problem of not detecting networks! Highly frustrating... I'll poke around the net a little later before I throw my laptop out the window lol
linux:/home/sean # ifstatus wlan0
wlan0 device: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
wlan0 dhcpcd is still waiting for data
wlan0 is up
2: wlan0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,NOTRAILERS,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast qlen 1000
link/ether 00:90:4b:4f:9b:f1 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe4f:9bf1/64 scope link
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:2A4A-7ADB-C990-E557-6BD9-3E36-2F Security mode
Power Management
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
linux:/home/sean # iwlist wlan0 scan
wlan0 No scan results
linux:/home/sean # iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: 00:00:00:00:00:00
Bit Rate=54 Mb/s Tx-Power:25 dBm
RTS thr=2347 B Fragment thr=2346 B
Encryption key:2A4A-7ADB-C990-E557-6BD9-3E36-2F Security mode
Power Management
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
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