I've tried getting my builtin wireless card in my laptop working before and was close, but could never get it working. I would REALLY like to use my laptop without being tied to my desk. Previously I could load the drivers, using ndiswrapper, and get all the way up to loading it, but I could never get an ipaddress. So I figured I would try again but this time remove wep and see if can connect.
lspci shows me this:
02:02.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03)
When I try to modprobe ndiswrapper the machine locks up hard. After a reboot I see this in /var/log/messages:
Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper version 1.4rc4 loaded (preempt=no,smp=yes) Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: driver bcmwl5 (Broadcom,10/20/2004, 3.70.22.0) loaded Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:02.0[A] -> GSI 18 (level, low) -> IRQ 193 Oct 27 15:09:45 kernel: ndiswrapper: using irq 193
I also tried reinstalling ndiswrapper but still get the same thing. If it's an IRQ problem, any suggestions on how to handle it?
Any other suggestions?
Thanks, James