wireless card connection

[Donald Monroe]

Mike,

I got 802.11 working on my laptop Dell 5150 w/ Broadcom 1350 mini PCI 
running SuSE 9.1 Pro using ndiswrapper.  I am  new to the board so if 
this has been covered, please let me know. 

# modprobe ndiswrapper
# iwconfig wlan0 up
# iwconfig wlan0 mode Managed
# iwconfig wlan0 essid (whatever your essid is)
#dhcpcd wlan0

You should be in business unless I haven't fully awaken and have 
mis-typed a command or two.  What distro are you running on your laptop? 

Just a suggestion:  Gentoo has really good wireless detection.  In fact 
it even picked up my wireless card even when running on Microsoft's 
Virtual PC.  <GULP>  I am grinning like the cat that ate the canary 
because I am sure I am gonna take some heat on that last statement.  
;-)  My point to all this early morning rambling is that Gentoo installs 
from a live CD.  You can put it in and see if it recognizes your card.  
If it does then you may want to consider trying it.  The install is from 
command line but don't let that scare you away.  It has some VERY NICE 
features.  AND it has SSH off the live CD so if you did get stuck then 
one of use could connect to your laptop and help out.   
http://www.gentoo.org

I am going back to bed but will check my e-mail later today.  If you 
need more help let me know.

Don Monroe

Michael Phillips wrote:

>Hello everyone,
>     I need some help on configuring my wireless network card.  My wireless
>card is being recognized through ndiswrapper.  From here, I do not know where
>to go.  If you can give me a url to show the steps, this would be great.
>
>Michael
>
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