Do I have to upgrade my R4V5 box to a 2.6.x kernel to get my wireless card to work?

My card is linksys wmp54g (broadcom 4320).

Thanks,
Mark

I've got that same PCI card in my frontend (upstairs over a wireless connection) it works great and I got it working by using Linuxant http://www.linuxant.com/. It was real easy to configure, the only downside was that it will cost $20... but that's for a lifetime serial number, as in it will never run out... so, you could look into that. I have never heard anything about using a broadcom wireless card in 2.6. I could be wrong, I kinda hope so, cause it would be great that those cards are finally being supported. So what's your source on 2.6 broadcom support?

I think the only way to get broadcom cards working open source is to use ndiswrapper. Not sure what kernel versions it works with.

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This is from my notes on setting up wireless with Knoppix 3.6 on my Dell D600 notebook (Broadcom wireless-G chip). You will have to figure out how to install and setup the ndiswrapper as KnoppMyth does not have the scripts I believe. This was done using the 2.4 kernel.

Here are the basic steps to follow:

1. Download the (Dell D600 Broadcom chip) ndiswrapper driver from: http://www.silfreed.net/download/hpzt30 ... 07A.tar.gz (Replace with your ndis driver, see wiki for additional drivers)

2. Untar the driver: # tar -zxvf SP23107A.tar.gz

3. Use the Knoppix/Network/Configure/ndiswrapper script to install.

4. Use the Knoppxi/Network/Configure/network card script and select WLAN0.

5. From the root terminal issues these commands: (I used WEP on my setup)

# iwconfig wlan0 essid <your ssid>
# iwconfig wlan0 key open s:<your ascii key> [n] ; [1]..[4]
# iwconfig wlan0 key open
# iwconfig wlan0 key [n]
# pump -i wlan0
# ifconfig wlan0

You should receive an IP address from your access point if all worked.
If not, try rebooting and issuing the iwconfig commands again. Sometimes I have had to issue the key commands more than once before it would take.

If you need more details and further help see http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/wiki/

also:

/etc/network/interfaces -add the following:
auto wlan0
iface wlan0 inet dhcp

Hope this helps...

Thanks for all the help. I got the ndiswrapper-0.7 to install and got the driver to install as well, but I can't get "hardware present" to show up.

lspci shows the broadcom wireless card but running ndiswrapper -l only shows the driver and not the "hardware present".

Mark

Ok - so I'm not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

I was using the bcmwl5.sys instead of bcmwl5.inf

Fixed it and everything fell into place. Thanks,

Mark

well, I got through step three... ndiswrapper is installed and all that and when I do a modprobe it loads it... I can even do a ndiswrapper -l and it finds the card, the driver and says they're both installed. but I don't know how to do the: step... because that's where stuff is not working. btw, I've got a wmp54g pci card, I think it's v1 so it's real old

Try /usr/sbin/netcardconfig

If you do not have this installed then "apt-get install netcardconfig-knoppix"

ahhhhh, ok, that's good. And actually I did get it working without using that script, but this will actually help a little more with the configuration... thank you.

I use info from this post

http://mysettopbox.tv/phpBB2/viewtopic. ... ht=802+11g

it works on install now.



in /etc/network/interfaces

Mark

ok, so far so good. It's all working, and best of all it's all working on startup. Now I just need to figure out a way to fix the interference between my wireless phone and frontend... does anyone know of a way to set what channel I'm using on my pci wireless card?

you can't set that on the wireless card. you have to set that on the access point or router. That's not exactly true you could set it on the pci card, but it would never see the network unless you change it on the WAP/router.

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oohh, well, I did change the channel on the router, but I was under the impression they just needed to match to get a strong connection... I think I'm confused, sorry for the inconveniece. Oh, and does anyone know of a good way to get rid of wireless phone interference? It's not too bad, but I wasn't sure if there was a "cure-all" remedy or whatever...

The suggestion I have is to upgrade to a 5.8 ghz phone, otherwise you will have to find a good channel. Also, it could be other phones in the area!

Mark