NDISWrapper installed - but no network or network device

[Steve-01370]

I'm running Kubuntu 8.04 on a Dell Inspiron 1721 laptop. It runs pretty much flawlessly except for the wireless networking. This is the internal Dell wireless card. I'm using the Windows driver (WLAN driver version 4.170.25.17) (as per the inf file). NDISWrapper says the hardware is present, but no networks or devices show up. The onboard wired NIC is present and works, FWIW. Luckily, this laptop has two hard drives, so I have Windoze and Kubuntu installed.


Any help would be much appreciated.

Code: lspci and code: lsusb output:
...
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 14)
00:14.1 IDE interface: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 IDE
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB600 PCI to LPC Bridge
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTra nsport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Con troller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscella neous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS690M [Radeon X1200 Ser ies]
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
03:01.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 05)
03:01.1 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapte r (rev 22)
03:01.2 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (re v 12)
03:01.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 12)
0b:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4328 802.11a/b/g/n (rev 03)
steve@linvis:~$ lsusb
Bus 006 Device 003: ID 05a9:2640 OmniVision Technologies, Inc.
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 046d:c521 Logitech, Inc. MX620 Laser Cordless Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
steve@linvis:

Thank much

Steve

[arochester]

Re: NDISWrapper installed - but no network or network device

Try the XP driver, which is reported to work on Dell machines, instead of the Vista driver.

BROADCOM BCM4328

Install firmware:

apt-get update
aptitude install ndiswrapper-utils-1.9

wget http://ftp.us.dell.com/network/R151517.EXE
mkdir driver
unzip -a R151517.EXE -d driver/
cd driver/DRIVER/

Activate:

ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
ndiswrapper -l
ndiswrapper -m
modprobe ndiswrapper

Activate on startup:

echo ndiswrapper >> /etc/modules

[Steve-01370]

Re: NDISWrapper installed - but no network or network device

That did the trick - thanks very much!