Broadcom bcmwl5 NDIS driver and Dell D610

[Colin Faber]

Hi Mark,

After messing around with it for a while I found a driver which did 
work. I was able to successfully get ndis0 to appear and after hitting 
the Fn+F2 button and starting ndis_events I could see some access points.

The problem I'm having now is that when I do connect to an access point 
(with wpa_supplicant -D ndis -i ndis0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf) DHCP 
doesn't appear to work right. What I'm seeing is that the DHCP requests 
issued by the AP it self are ignored, however if I allow DHCP requests 
through the AP from say my cable modem, those are accepted and collected.

This problem does not exist if I establish a link to the AP with my ural 
USB card.

Also, a quick note on the Fn+F2 thing. Though the LED which indicates 
wireless card broadcast status does not turn on and stays off, It does 
seem to switch the mode from off to on.

-cf

Mark A-J. Raught wrote:

>> <snip old text>
>
> I am currently running linux on my laptop with the broadcom card in 
> it, but I had a couple problems when I first set it up in FreeBSD. 
> Here are some tips I can give, hopefully they'll help. First I had 2 
> inf files available and I needed to use the ascii one (bcmwl5a.inf) 
> and the sys file (bcmwl5.sys) with the other file (bcmwl5.inf) it 
> appeared to work, but no love. This was about a year ago, so it may 
> not matter now.
>
> The other main thing is to make sure your wireless is physically on. 
> On my laptop I need to hold the Fn button and hit F2. That turns the 
> wireless on and off. However, the first time I needed to go into the 
> BIOS and set it to ON instead of Last Used (or LAST STATE, or 
> somesuch) that leaves it in the last state it was in. After it started 
> once, I could then change the BIOS back and it worked properly after 
> that.
>
> Finally, make sure you are following the correct directions, the last 
> time I needed to use NDIS I set it all up and it seemed to be correct, 
> but you needed to use some wizard instead of the "classic" way. This 
> also may have changed since then (again about a year ago).
>
> -mark
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