topic Wirless Lan in Operating System - Linux

Wirless Lan

carlinho_1 — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:11:12 GMT

I have a Hp DV6045nr laptop and my wireless lan is not working at all. I have reinstalled the Broadcom Drivers and nothing. do anyone has gotten same problem?

Re: Wirless Lan

Siert Zijl — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 18:54:00 GMT

I'm not sure what type of wireless card is inside the DV6045.

Assuming it's a Broadcom BCM4318, you might want to use the ndiswrapper for Linux. See:
http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/ and http://www.partha.com/wireless.html for an example.

Re: Wirless Lan

Steven E. Protter — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 02:50:44 GMT

Shalom,

The alternative is madwifi.

It heavily depends on your Linux distribution and kernel version. To get it working will require the isntallation of of three packages.

The rpm command will tell you what is missing if you try just one.

SEP

Re: Wirless Lan

Jerome Henry — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 05:02:40 GMT

The key is undoubtedly the chipset it uses. Most broadcom chipsets are not supported under linux (nobody has the sources to write a driver), so you would have to use the windows driver through ndiswrapper.
Try to see here if you find your chipset :
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_chipset.php?chipset=Broadcom
Basically yelow means ndiswrapper, and the few greens that someone could manage to write something for the relevant chipset.

hth

J

Re: Wirless Lan

carlinho_1 — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:54:59 GMT

Guys,

I am working with a Windows XP pro machine and it was working fine until one day it stop working. I got it working back but it came back to not working

any ideas?

Re: Wirless Lan

Alpha977 — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 04:46:12 GMT

Hello!

with "lspci" can you see the hardware?

Regards.

Re: Wirless Lan

Jerome Henry — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 11:07:57 GMT

So you mean you run XP, not Linux, right ? So you may be in the wrong section of the forum.
Anyway, how is you card seen in your laptop ? Did you update a driver somehow ?
By "not working" what do you mean exactly (seems obvious, but is it that you don't see the card at all, that you don't get to the network ?)

J

Re: Wirless Lan

carlinho_1 — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 12:54:42 GMT

What I have is that with XP It works sometimes when I got to the Bios and reset to deafault. But It usually do not work when windows starts.

If I look into Device manager I do not see the device and if I try to look into the hardware with issues I do not find it.

the Bios is funny as it does not give me options to go into more detailed hardware configurations, unless I have to update my bios

Re: Wirless Lan

Cameron McCormick — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 20:34:29 GMT

I have had the same problem. I bought the laptop in August and never had a problem and one day I just disappeared.

Re: Wirless Lan

astroware — Fri, 09 Feb 2007 19:26:31 GMT

i also have same dv6045nr ....
and having same described problem ....
dont know what to do?
can anyone guide me?