Suse 10 on HP nc6230

- INSTALLATION
ACPI Disable / GRUB Option acpi=off

Broadcom Wireless NIC
- http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net
- ndiswrapper & wireless tools Pkg Install (YaST2) (included on ver.10 DVD)
- identify the card
#lspci -n

Card: Broadcom BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller Laptop: HP Pavilion ze4900

• Chipset: Broadcom 4306
• pciid: 14e4:4320 (rev 03)
• Driver: Broadcom WLAN Network Driver[27] or bcmwl5.sys on Application/Driver Recovery DVD provided with laptop
• Other: I installed this driver on Fedora Core 3 with the 4K stack (no problems thus far) and ndiswrapper-1.1. The installation worked exactly as the Installation notes says it should.

- prepare NIC Driver for Windows XP (xxx.inf)
- in case of Broadcom uses "bcmwl5.inf", "bcmwl5.sys"

jungbdn:~ # ndiswrapper -i bcmwl5.inf
Installing bcmwl5
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
Forcing parameter IBSSGMode|0 to IBSSGMode|2
jungbdn:~ # ls /etc/ndiswrapper/bcmwl5/
. 14E4:4320.5.conf
.. 14E4:4320:0E11:00E7.5.conf
14E4:4301.5.conf 14E4:4320:103C:12F4.5.conf
14E4:4301:103C:12F3.5.conf 14E4:4320:103C:12F8.5.conf
14E4:4318.5.conf 14E4:4320:103C:12FA.5.conf
14E4:4318:103C:1355.5.conf 14E4:4320:103C:12FB.5.conf
14E4:4318:103C:1356.5.conf 14E4:4324.5.conf
14E4:4318:103C:1357.5.conf 14E4:4324:103C:12F9.5.conf
14E4:4319.5.conf 14E4:4324:103C:12FC.5.conf
14E4:4319:103C:1358.5.conf 14E4:4324:103C:12FD.5.conf
14E4:4319:103C:1359.5.conf bcmwl5.inf
14E4:4319:103C:135A.5.conf bcmwl5.sys
jungbdn:~ #
jungbdn:~ # ndiswrapper -l
Installed ndis drivers:
bcmwl5 driver present, hardware present
jungbdn:~ #
jungbdn:~ #depmod -a
jungbdn:~ #modprobe ndiswrapper
jungbdn:~ #dmesg
...
ndiswrapper: using irq 11
wlan0: ndiswrapper ethernet device 00:90:4b:bc:ff:81 using driver bcmwl5, configuration file 14E4:4320:103C:12FA.5.conf
wlan0: encryption modes supported: WEP, WPA with TKIP, WPA with AES/CCMP

- done

iwlist wlan0 scan
iwconfig wlan0 essid [dddddddddd]
dhcpcd wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 up