What I did...

Post #204,769 by Yendor 4/25/05 1:51:38 PM Reply	What I did... I've got a Broadcom chipset inside my HP zd8080us running Ubuntu. I use ndiswrappers for wireless access. It works. Here's what I did. `apt-get install ndiswrapper-utils` Copy the .inf AND .sys from your Windows driver CD (mine are `bcmwl5.inf` and `bcmwl5.sys`.) Stick 'em in your home dir (or somewhere) and leave 'em there. You never know when you'll need 'em again, and they're small. `ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf` Confirm this output: `$ ndiswrapper -l Installed ndis drivers: bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present` And here's the relevant stanza from `/etc/network/interfaces`...Change as needed: `auto wlan0 iface wlan0 inet dhcp netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.0.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255 gateway 192.168.0.1 wireless_keymode restricted wireless_key <your_key_here> wireless_essid <your_essid_here>` I think that's all I had to do. -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania
Post #204,780 by cwbrenn 4/25/05 2:14:17 PM Reply	Thanks! I'll try this when I get home. I didn't mess with the interfaces setting, that might be the problem. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #204,835 by cwbrenn 4/26/05 10:05:44 AM Reply	It worked! All I had to do was modify that interfaces file and suddenly, like magic, the laptop's built-in wireless started working. There's this other odd thing happening now, though. Every time the laptop boots up it seems like it kicks all other computers off the network. My Windows XP machine, for example, suddenly loses the ability to even ping the Linksys router. I have to actually unplug and restart the router in order for all the machines to be able to access the internet again. I wonder what that's about. The other two machines are connected to the router with ethernet cables, so I wouldn't think it was an issue of signal interference or anything like that... "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #204,842 by Yendor 4/26/05 10:53:16 AM Reply	Glad to hear it! Not sure what to say about your other machines getting kicked off the network, however. :( -YendorMike "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Historical Review of Pennsylvania

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