(Hi! I had posted this on Laptops, but a member suggested that it might better be on this forum.)

 

I recently purchased a Vostro 1400, with the 1395 wireless card. Wireless works fine on Windows XP, but I'm going CRAZY trying to get it to run on Linux (Kubuntu Hardy Heron - 8.04 with KDE3).

At this point, I have installed  ndiswrapper, with drivers bcmwl5.inf and .sys from DRIVER_US in R174291.exe

 

The blue WiFi light is now on, but I can't access my router. Here are the results of some command lines:

 

 

"lspci |grep Broadcom" gives:

09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

0c:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4310 USB Controller (rev 01)

 

"sudo lshw -C network " shows (partial list)

*-network

description: Wireless interface

product: BCM4310 USB Controller

vendor: Broadcom Corporation

physical id: 0

bus info: pci@0000:0c:00.0

logical name: wlan0

version: 01

serial: 00:16:44:b6:b6:00

width: 64 bits

clock: 33MHz

capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list ethernet physical wireless

configuration: broadcast=yes driver=ndiswrapper+bcmwl5 driverversion=1.52+Broadcom,09/20/2007, 4.170. latency=0 link=no module=ndiswrapper multicast=yes wireless=IEEE 802.11g

 

 

"iwconfig wlan0" gives:

wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID off/any

Mode:Managed Frequency:2.462 GHz Access Point: Not-Associated

Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Tx-Power:32 dBm

RTS thr:2347 B Fragment thr:2346 B

Power Management off

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

 

 

and 

"sudo iwlist scanning" shows:  (Note: "just4me" is indeed my ESSID)

Cell 02 - Address: 00:0D:88:8E:13:F7

ESSID:"just4me"

Protocol:IEEE 802.11g

Mode:Managed

Frequency:2.437 GHz (Channel 6)

Quality:42/100 Signal level:-69 dBm Noise level:-96 dBm

Encryption key on

Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s

12 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s

 

 

 

Any thoughts??

Thanks!

 

Lee M