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SUSE 9.2 wireless lan setup problem on DELL 600m with 1350 WLAN mini-PCI card

Asked by summer_soccer in Linux Networking, Wireless Local Area Network

Tags: 600m, dell, iwconfig

Dear all,

   I have spent an large amount of labor trying to solve this dell 600m laptop wireless card configuration problem but have not succedded yet. So here I am to seek your help.

   I have installed SUSE 9.2 professional version on my newly purchased DELL 600m laptop. This laptop has intregrated a BroadCom 1350 WLAN min-PCI card on board. I googled the Internet and found people suggesting to install ndiswrapper. So I downloaded the ndiswrapper and installed it. Then I downloaded the DELL's Windows XP driver for this 1350 card: bcmwl5 and bcmwl5a. Then I modprobe ndiswrapper; iwconfig the card; ifconfig wlan0 up. Now the configuration files are as follow:

ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0F:1F:C4:77:D6  
          inet6 addr: fe80::20f:1fff:fec4:77d6/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
          Interrupt:11

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback  
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:4916 (4.8 Kb)  TX bytes:4916 (4.8 Kb)

wlan0     Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0B:7D:0A:71:C2  
          inet addr:128.239.186.122  Bcast:128.239.191.255  Mask:255.255.248.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::20b:7dff:fe0a:71c2/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:8584 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:7 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:1009193 (985.5 Kb)  TX bytes:1024 (1024.0 b)
          Interrupt:7 Memory:fafee000-fafeffff

iwconfig:

wlan0     IEEE 802.11g  ESSID:"W-M_Wireless"  Nickname:"linux"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.462 GHz  Access Point: 00:01:F4:6B:0F:4D  
          Bit Rate=54 Mb/s   Tx-Power:25 dBm  
          RTS thr=2347 B   Fragment thr=2346 B  
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management min timeout:0us  mode:All packets received
          Link Quality:100/100  Signal level:-47 dBm  Noise level:-256 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:4276   Missed beacon:0

ndiswrapper -l:

Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5      driver present, hardware present
bcmwl5a      driver present, hardware present

Then I changed to load the ndiswrapper module at boot, and reboot the system.

At the booting time, it showed the wlan0 card is detected, but the system failed to bring up the mandatory device for wlan0. After logging into KDE, the wireless lan is not accessible. Can anybody help me solve this problem? Many many thanks.

By the way, does anybody why I cannot copy files from SUSE Linux partitions to any windows XP partitions?

Best,
Soccer
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